Overview
- Clean-energy-aligned candidates now hold an 8–6 majority on the Salt River Project board, while Turning Point-backed Chris Dobson and Barry Paceley secured the presidency and vice presidency with control over the agenda.
- Roughly 36,000 people voted in the utility’s election, about five times 2024’s turnout, after heavy mobilization and spending by Turning Point, the Jane Fonda Climate PAC, and companies including NextEra Energy and Google.
- SRP must expand generation steeply to meet growth and data center demand, with an active request for up to 2,900 megawatts of new resources that could include natural gas, renewables, and storage.
- The board will weigh choices under decarbonization goals that call for an 82% cut in carbon intensity by 2035 and net-zero by 2050, as leaders cite reliability, affordability, water protection, and renewable investment as top priorities.
- Election results remain unofficial pending certification, and winners are slated to take office May 4 under SRP’s century-old voting system that limits ballots to landowners and weights votes by acreage.