One of Arizona’s largest solar power plants will deliver 400 MW of renewable energy to the state by 2024. Located about 30 miles northwest of Flagstaff on 2,400 acres of private land in Coconino County, CO Bar Solar is a partnership between Tempe-based not-for-profit utility SRP and solar and storage developer Boise-based Clēnera (pronounced “clean era”), which will build and operate the plant.

“This will be SRP’s largest stand-alone solar plant once built and in operation, and we can say with confidence it will be one of the largest in Arizona,” says Barry Petrey, manager of resource acquisition for SRP, the largest provider of electricity in the greater Phoenix metro area and its largest supplier of water.

The solar plant is a stand-alone operation because it is unattached to any other energy resource such as a battery storage system or power plant. Project officials say the energy from CO Bar Solar will significantly displace the need for carbon-fired resources, especially when the sun is most intense in Arizona.

Petrey解释说：“包括该项目以及我们正在开发的许多清洁能源资源，SRP预计，到2025年，我们提供给客户的零售能源的近50％将来自无碳资源。”

“Clē其历来为renewa铺平了道路ble energy in the state, and CO Bar Solar is yet another example,” says Jared McKee, vice president of business development for Clēnera, a subsidiary of Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd., Rosh Ha’ayin, Israel. “Not only is this project one of the largest in the state, it is also the largest single power purchase agreement that our company has signed to date.”

预计Co Bar Solar将产生足够的电力，以满足80,000户房屋的需求，并抵消每年数十亿磅的二氧化碳排放。McKee补充说，除了环境福利外，该项目还将为可可尼诺县带来巨大的经济利益，包括税收收入和建筑工作。

施工预计将于2023年开始。在18个月的项目时间表期间，将创建约550个建筑工作，其中许多将转向当地人，Clēnera建筑副总裁Michael Gallego说。

他说：“采取特殊重点是为了确保我们的项目中使用最新技术来最大程度地提高工程效率并最大程度地减少我们的物理足迹，同时保持能源成本较低。”新利18备用网址

Petrey说，包括Co Bar太阳能的功率，SRP现在达到1,548兆瓦的能源，其脱碳目标是到2025年增加2,025兆瓦的公用事业级太阳能。长期目标是在2035年将碳强度降低65％，在2050年将碳强度降低90％，这是基于2005年水平的这些目标。

This solar capacity includes SRP’s three plants, which are part of its sustainable energy offering (300 MW) and two solar-plus-battery projects (348 MW) as well as the three solar plants the company announced this summer to support Facebook’s new data center in Mesa, Ariz., and SRP’s small-business customers (500 MW). All but one of the plants are in Pinal County, south of Phoenix.