by Tierra Resource | Mar 22, 2022 | Delivery, Projects
Challenge: Arizona Public Service Company (APS) operates in a hot desert climate where the fast growing Phoenix metro area is its main area of customer concentration. In the desert climate, quality air conditioning is clearly an essential service for commerce,...
by Tierra Resource | Mar 1, 2022 | Delivery, Projects
Challenge: Increased rooftop solar photovoltaics, or PV, caused rapidly changing system load shapes within Arizona Public Service’s (APS) territory and required more flexible resources as a backup for intermittent solar generation. APS needed support designing and...
by Tierra Resource | Feb 3, 2022 | Projects, Sustainability
Challenge: Mohawk College has long been a leader in sustainability education and practice in the Canadian higher education sector. In 2016 Mohawk leadership recognized the importance of more aggressively confronting climate change by: preparing students for jobs in...
by Tierra Resource | Jan 29, 2022 | Projects, Strategy
Challenge: With over half of its 1.1 million residential customers on innovative Time-of-Use (TOU) rates, APS continuously looks to support its customers with tools and resources that allow them to save and manage their energy costs and to better understand the...
by Tierra Resource | Jan 26, 2022 | Projects, Research, Sustainability
Challenge: Data about customers and communities is increasingly important as utilities and local governments work to meet their ambitious energy, equity, sustainability or economic development goals. There are a myriad of data sets available but assembling these...
by Tierra Resource | Jan 25, 2022 | Projects, Strategy
Challenge: State-funded energy efficiency programs in California are divided into two types: resource programs that lead directly to quantifiable energy and demand savings, and non-resource programs that may lead to savings, but are primarily designed for other...
