Amanda Ormond

Clean energy consultant, outdoors adventurer, yogi, singer/song writer, award-winning nature photographer and mama bear

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

@KTAR923 @dbseiden And climate now refers to climate change.

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

@consrevativdork @Andy_Tobin Actually, the Commission took a short cut and did not follow the rules to repeal the REST rule. The Commission has to show the economics of rule repeal.

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

The future v. the past.

[Greg “AZ Greg the Wise Man” 🇺🇸 @azweis27]

@azfec Fact as of Jan 1, 2026. My SRP's monthly service charge went from $20 a month to $30 a month. A 50% increase! That's an extra $120 a year it is now costing me.

[John Ewing @johnewing66]

@azfec The Corporation Commission sets utility rates and has been Republican-dominated for decades, all while accepting dark money campaign funding coordinated by APS. The governor has zero to do with electric rates while bills signed by Ducey reduced incentives for consumer solar.

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

APS says in one breath that customers will not pay for data center growth and with the next breath that formula rates are needed so there is no sticker shock from increasing rates, which is mostly driven by data centers. Can’t have it both ways.

[AZ Alliance for Retired Americans @AZRetiredAms]

⚡️ APS & TEP want “formula rates” allowing yearly bill increases with less oversight. Critics warn consumers could pay the price.
🔗: https://t.co/wEPKFItC3Y

[Autumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson]

4 more weeks of the APS rate case. We are a little behind and the utility and the ACC are applying a lot of pressure to ask less, move faster. But the thing is, we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars from customers, a huge rate increase many people can’t afford, and disastrous environmental decisions. So, I believe the record should be thorough and APS should have to meet its burden to prove its case. Due process takes time. 🤷‍♀️ #energy #aps #acc

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

30 minutes to question rate case filing that run hundreds of pages??? Absurd.

Remember, next APS wants formula rates to limit questions about the utilities finances and expenses even more.

I have never seen anything so aggressive in the past 20 years.

[Yellow Sheet Report @TheYellowSheet]

Advocacy groups lambasted Arizona Public Service for attempting to limit opportunities to question witnesses in the company’s rate case in order to save time, a move opponents say threatens due process.
https://t.co/h87AaXzodR

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

Right. Utilities say they don’t want customers to pay for data center costs but is there a tariff or policy in place to ensure customers don’t foot the bill?

[Autumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson]

We are having a robust data center convo in the SRP board work session. SRP currently has ~22 data centers. They expect that only ~20% of requested projects are plausible. No one wants residential customers to pay for all the added generation to serve data centers. #energy #srp

[Mary Jo Pitzl @maryjpitzl]

Arizona school voucher program has serious oversight problems https://t.co/g2hQ1SWQSc via @azcentral

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

John ward ESA director should be fired and Superintended Tom Horne should be recalled. How much more proof do we need of the massive fraud in this program??

[Yellow Sheet Report @TheYellowSheet]

The Arizona Department of Education has failed to properly audit, report conflicts of interest and investigate misspending in the state’s $1 billion Empowerment Scholarship Account program, according to a new report from the auditor general.
https://t.co/U2YmpLOLRE

[Autumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson]

The ACC and the utilities lost again on formula rates today. The AZ Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal, leaving in place the Court of Appeals decision that said the ACC is subject to the Administrative Procedures Act (of course it is). Now the case heads back to the trial court to determine if the ACC needed to go through a rulemaking process instead of a policy statement. #energy #acc #formularates

[Bloomberg @business]

Maryland homeowners will pay an extra $1.6 billion on their electric bills over the next decade to subsidize grid costs to feed data centers, according to a state agency https://t.co/8O24hiRe3V

[Marlene Galán-Woods @marleneforAZ]

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a tireless defender of our democracy who has been on the front lines fighting for the truth and ensuring our elections remain free and fair. I am proud to have his trust in this campaign and, in Congress, I will bring that same fearless commitment to accountability and leadership to ensure we are delivering real results for Arizona families and standing up to extremism. @Adrian_Fontes

[Amanda Ormond @AzSunshineGal]

I’ve doing energy for a long time

[AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @AZAGMayes]

Our lawsuits against federal overreach have saved our state $1.5 billion and ended Trump's illegal IEEPA tariff taxes on the people of Arizona, which cost the average Arizona family last year between $1000 - $1500.

[Craig Harris @CraigHarrisNews]

The @GOP-backed plan for the Arizona state budget would require state retirees to pay more for their health care for the next three years, but no restrictions to Empowerment Scholarships as parents buy diamond rings, Kenmore appliances and sexy lingerie.
https://t.co/od4ShdrFyG

[Craig Harris @CraigHarrisNews]

Arizona @GOP wants to make sweeping cuts to state budget. But...

@12news found ESA families spent more than $350,000 on tickets to shows, including Broadway productions and concerts. Another $77,551 was spent on rideshares like Uber and Lyft.

https://t.co/0te7I7ZwyB

[Capitol Media Services 📢 Telling it like it is @azcapmedia]

Arizona's school voucher reform push a pricey endeavor as both plans raise millions. https://t.co/7ldz6AJHHk via @tucsonstar

[Ric O'Connell @RicOConnell8]

#SunZia showing up in @CaliforniaISO yesterday in a big way (and it is just getting started, probably only a GW online, will ramp to 3.5 GW). Check out gas - less than 2 GW out of 25 GW. That's right - CA running 90% #CarbonFree. Pretty damn cool. @grid_status has a nice blog.