Protect Solar Through Demand-Charge Rates and Time-of-Use Charging To the members of the Arizona Corporation Commission: As our regulators, you have a way to precisely charge us, the residents of Arizona, for our energy usage: you can curtail peak loads, and properly compensate distributed energy resources. The solution is demand charges. Demand charges calculate a fee for utility customers based on each customer?s peak consumption each month?-usually measured hourly. Under the current practice of net metering, the rooftop solar industry is dependent on taxpayer backed subsidies. This is unacceptable. Moving to demand charges would force the rooftop solar industry to support itself through innovation and on an open market. Demand charges are the only way we can create a stable, long-term solar industry in Arizona. We ask that you solve this continued problem by adopting demand-charge based rates for all of Arizona. Name Arizona post of?ce Signature (?rst and last name printed) Actual address (street 8. no. and if no street address. describe residence location) address 8. zip code City or town (if any) Date signed 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Instructions for Circulators All petitions shall be signed by circulator. Circulator is not required to be a resident of this state but othenivise must be quali?ed to register to vote in this state. Circulator's name shall be typed or printed under such person?s signature. Circulator's actual residence address or. if no street address. a description of residence location shall be included on the petition. :5pr Af?davit of Circulator State of Arizona 55- I County of I. . a person who is not required to be a resident of this state but who is otherwise quali?ed to register to vote in the county of (Print Name) .in the state of Arizona at all times during my circulation of this petition sheet. and under the penalty of a class 1 misdemeanor, depose and say that subject to 19-115. Arizona Revised Statutes. each individual printed the individual's own name and address and signed this sheet of the foregoing petition in my presence on the date indicated and I believe that each signer's name and residence address or post of?ce address are correctly stated and that each signer is a quali?ed elector of the state of Arizona. (Signature of at?ant) (Typed or Printed Name) (Residence address. street and number of a?iant, or if no street address. a description of residence location) A PETITION UNISOURCE ENERGY SERVICES HAS PROPOSED HIGHER ELECTRIC RATES TO HELP PAY FOR AN EFFICIENT NATURAL GAS-FIRED POWER PLANT, RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS, POWER LINES AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED TO MAINTAIN SAFE, RELIABLE SERVICE. PROTECT SOLAR THROUGH DEMAND RATES AND THE TIME OF USE CHARGING Because this proposal has been subjected to an unprecedented misinformation campaign, we would like to provide our customers with the following facts. Section 1. Wh Current rates are based on costs UES incurred through June 2012. Since then, the company has invested about $170 million to acquire new energy resources, upgrade its transmission and distribution systems and make other improvements to maintain safe, reliable service for customers. UES also is incurring additional costs to operate and maintains its systems including repairs made to storm-damaged equipment. In 2014, for example, crews rebuilt a Lake Havasu City transmission line that sustained serious damage in summer storms. While costs have increased, energy use has decreased due to the success of energy efficiency programs, the growing popularity of rooftop solar power systems and the closure of businesses with high, stable energy usage that previously supported lower rates for other customers. Section 2. UE Residential and small business customers who install new solar power systems would be billed under new rates that include a change for their peak hourly energy use. The company also has proposed an updated net metering plan to more fairly compensate new users of solar power systems for excess solar energy for free, on-demand utility power from large solar arrays. The value ofthe credits initially set a 5.84- cents per kWh, and would be updated annually to ensure that customers receive a fair market price for excess solar energy. and peak hourly usage or "demand" to ensure accuracy. The ?demand? charge would be offset by a lower usage rate, so most customers would pay about the same for energy as they would under a rate without that charge. Similar rates have seen widespread use by businesses and have proven to be fair, accurate, and reasonable. Our proposal would provide limited income customers with even larger discounts than they receive under our current rates. Total annual assistance for limited income customers would more than double under our proposal to a total of$1.3 million. c] More control oyer energy costs. Our proposed rates offer more ways to reduce your bills: by using less energy - as you can today or by managing your energy use during peak usage periods. New energy ef?ciency programs would help customers realize signi?cant bill savings. Ifyou don?t want to change your energy use, don?t worry; you won't need to. Our rates would offer a fair, accurate price for power however you choose to use it. om . We have proposed bill discounts for qualifying new and existing businesses that expand operations and add new jobs. Our proposal would provide fair, accurate rates for all of our customers. ll av one o'n sola customer with typical usage ofabout 900 kilowatt-hours per month could save an estimated $58 per month by going solar under the company's proposed rates and net metering plan. This represents savings of 56 percent. . A residential Section 4. Consid The Arizona Corporation Commission will be hearing this proposal in the Fall of 2016.