TEP, a subsidiary of Fortis Inc. (NYSE: FTS), provides safe, reliable service to more than 417,000 customers in the Tucson area. The company is recognized as an industry leader in solar energy thanks in part to its pioneering development of Arizona’s first large-scale photovoltaic (PV) array near Springerville. The company has approximately 250 MW of solar energy systems that it either owns or contracts with throughout the State of Arizona. These utility scale resources will complement the systems customers install at their own homes and businesses with support from TEP’s SunShare program.

These resources help TEP comply with Arizona’s Renewable Energy Standard, which requires electric utilities to increase their use of renewable energy each year until it represents 15 percent of their power by 2025. An increasing share of that power – at least 30 percent after 2011 – must come from distributed systems developed at local homes and businesses. The subsidies for those systems and other aspects of TEP’s renewable energy programs are funded by customers through the Renewable Energy Standard Tariff (REST), a surcharge set each year by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).

For more information about TEP’s renewable energy resources, visit our website HERE.