Reliable Energy for Rural Arizona

Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO), part of the Arizona G&T Cooperatives family of not-for-profit cooperatives, is embarking on an action plan to diversify its portfolio, improve reliability, and transition to a cleaner energy future. Learn more about our current project and resource plan.

Action Plan Projects

As a community-based, democratic, not-for-profit provider of power, transmission, and energy services, AEPCO’s action plan is founded on its core mission: to provide reliable power and value-added services to member electric cooperatives and public power utilities—and the communities they serve—at the lowest possible cost.

Mohave Energy Park — Mohave County, Arizona

AEPCO is also working together with Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) to diversify its existing power generation resources in Mohave County, which currently includes solar and battery energy storage systems, by developing a new natural gas generating station in Mohave Valley. In the first phase of this project, Mohave Energy Park will include two efficient, quick-start and fast-ramping natural gas turbines. Diversification of resources in Mohave County will improve reliability for MEC’s consumer-members, and it will provide economic benefit to the communities they serve.

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Apache Solar II – Cochise County, Arizona

The Apache Solar II project will provide 235 MWac of solar combined with 940 MWh batteries for energy storage. All the power from the project will go to AEPCO to serve our members in Cochise, Graham, Greenlee and other rural communities in Arizona. The energy produced from the Apache Solar II Project is essential to ensure continued reliable, safe service, at the lowest possible cost. The Apache Solar II project will reduce water consumption and air emissions by offsetting the operation of existing steam generation. These investments will help stabilize or lower energy costs will reduce our dependence on increasing fuel and market power costs.

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Apache Station — Cochise County, Arizona

Part of AEPCO’s action plan will be to develop two efficient, quick-start and fast-ramping natural gas turbines at Apache Station to help modernize its power generation resources, increase renewable integration, and meet the requirements of evolving energy markets. Apache Station is a power plant in Cochise County that AEPCO has operated since 1961 with existing natural gas and electric transmission infrastructure. These new natural gas units will not only offset the operation of older, less efficient units that AEPCO currently operates, they will also help integrate new renewable resources. This includes a large utility-scale solar project also being developed at Apache Station, which will be among the largest electric cooperative solar projects in the nation.