Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) 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. Then show your support by filling-out the form below and sending a message to the Arizona Corporation Commissioners who will be considering AEPCO’s application to finance new power resource 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.
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.
AEPCO is also working together with Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) to diversify its power generation resources by developing a new plant site in Mohave County. In this next phase, Mohave Energy Center will include two efficient, quick-start and fast-ramping natural gas turbines located next to MEC’s existing solar and battery energy storage center. Diversification of resources will improve reliability for MEC’s consumer-members, and it will provide economic benefit to the communities they serve.
Integration with Renewable Energy Resources
Lower Emission Rates Compared to older Coal and Natural Gas Resources
Improves Efficiency and Reduced Market Exposure
Provides Competitively Priced Energy to Rural Arizona
Flexible Quick-Start and Fast-Ramping Operation Provides Reliability Benefits
Capable of Operating on Clean Hydrogen
Please fill out and submit this form to show you support AEPCO’s application to finance flexible, efficient natural gas units.
