Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) is embarking on an action plan to develop new power resources to diversify its portfolio, improve reliability and flexibility, and transition to a clean energy future. Learn more here about our current project and resource plan and then show your support by sending an email to your Arizona Corporation Commissioners.
Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) is embarking on an action plan to develop new power resources to diversify its portfolio, improve reliability and flexibility, and to reduce its carbon footprint. As a community-based, democratic, not-for-profit provider of power, transmission, and energy services, AEPCO’s transition 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. The first phase of AEPCO’s action plan focuses on an
initiative at its existing power plant, which was first developed in 1961. It will expand its renewable resource portfolio with a large photovoltaic solar installation with battery storage, and it will develop two efficient, fastramping, natural gas peaking units to help modernize its fleet for increasing renewable integration and to meet the requirements of evolving energy markets. These new resources will be sited at AEPCO’s Apache Generating Station in Cochise, Arizona, will use existing natural gas and transmission infrastructure, and will be operated and maintained by AEPCO’s existing labor force.
Increases the cooperatives’ ability to build online renewable and carbon-free energy supply
Provides competitively priced energy to meet the growing electricity loads of rural Arizona
Significantly lower emissions rates as compared to older gas units
Flexible natural gas starts and stops quickly to fill in the ups and downs of solar power
Will reduce costs over time thanks to improved efficiency and avoidance of high-cost market power purchases
Capable of using clean hydrogen
Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) welcome your feedback on this project. Any comments and questions can be submitted using the form below or by phone at (520) 586-3631. Please send any printed comments to:
Reliable Energy for Arizona
1000 S Highway 80
Benson, Arizona 85602
