Arizona Utility Announces Plans to Develop 107 Megawatts of Solar Near Tucson
Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 12:00 PM
By GetSolar Staff.
As many as 107 megawatts of solar power projects will be developed near Tucson, Arizona, Tucson Electric Power said last week.
The utility announced that it was buying 160 megawatts of renewable energy from a variety of sources. The bulk of its purchases will come from solar - fitting for a state with a sunny, arid climate perfectly suited to solar energy installations.
The projects, TEP vice president of energy efficiency and resource planning David Hutchens said, "would provide … customers with clean, reasonably-priced power from a wide variety of zero-water renewable energy technologies."
TEP has agreed to buy power from three fixed solar photovoltaic projects, with respective outputs of 35, 25 and 5 megawatts. Also under contract are four tracking PV systems - which include panels that follow the sun across the sky - generating 12, 4, 5 and 5 megawatts. And three concentrating solar arrays are in the cards, too. They will provide 12, 2 and 2 megawatts of electricity.
The proposed projects would complement the 30 megawatts of solar that are expected to come on line near Tucson by 2012, TEP said.
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As many as 107 megawatts of solar power projects will be developed near Tucson, Arizona, Tucson Electric Power said last week.
