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Joshua Polacheck: “We are providing perverse incentives to the utilities to be…”

Featuring: Joshua Polacheck, Democratic | Former Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

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Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission

Published | Video Starts at 22:29

We are talking about regulations from the 1960s and seventies that provide a non market subsidy to outdated technology. Right now it is cheaper to be building a clean energy future in our state. But instead We are providing perverse incentives to the utilities to be building infrastructure that we don't need. and getting in the way of our clean energy future. There is a possibility of building letting the market go free. And I can't believe I'm saying this as a Democrat, but there are a. (22:29–22:37)

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Asserts that utilities are incentivized to build unnecessary infrastructure.

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