Plan Benefits

  • Increases the cooperatives’ ability to bring online renewable and carbon-free energy supply
  • Flexible natural gas starts and stops quickly to fill in the ups and downs of solar power
  • Provides fixed-price energy to meet the growing electricity loads of rural Arizona
  • Will reduce costs over the long term thanks to improved efficiency and avoidance of high-cost market power purchases
  • Significantly lower emissions rates as compared to older gas units
  • Capable of using clean hydrogen