Tucson Solar Power
06.02.10Last week Solar Energy News, Tucson Electric Power has agreed to sign and submit for review ten purchasing agreements (PPAs), a landfill gas generation project and a new wind farm. If approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), the PPAs will together total 160 megawatts (MW) of solar energy generating capacity, enough renewable energy to power more than 30,000 Tucson Homes.
The Arizona solar projects would go up in the greater Tucson area and, if all goes according to plan, could begin providing power to the grid in 2011 or 2012.
Under Arizona’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES), utilities are to meet 15 percent of their customer’s electricity demands with renewable energy by 2025. Tucson Electric Power’s solar projects would help meet that goal.
“These agreements are the next step in our development of local utility-scale renewable power projects that will help us achieve our renewable energy goals,” said Paul Bonavia, Chairman, President and CEO of TEP and its parent company, UniSource Energy Corporation (NYSE: UNS). “We’re looking forward to including these resources in TEP’s growing green power portfolio.”
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