Mike, 
can you check and see which of these are in maricopa and prioritize them?  also, if you want to go to the cec thing go ahead. i'm skipping it.


http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Fb-GAXyGldw:www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/7_25_01power_side2.html+maricopa+county+power+plants&hl=en

Power plants planned or under construction in Arizona
 
July 25, 2001
 1. Griffith Energy Project
 Location: 8 miles south of Kingman
 Size: 530 megawatts
 Cost: $275 million
 Water: 3,060 acre-feet/year groundwater may lower water table 80 feet over useful life.
 Status: APPROVED in December 1998 and under construction
 2. Desert Basin
 Location: Casa Grande
 Size: 500 megawatts
 Cost: $260 million
 Water: Reclaimed waste water and purchase water from a local plant with CAP allocation.
 Status: APPROVED July 1999 and approved for construction.
 3. West Phoenix
 Location: 43rd Avenue and Hadley Road
 Size: 500 megawatts
 Cost: $220 million
 Water: 3,300 acre-feet/year from existing wells; will recycle for discharge.
 Status: APPROVED February 2000
 4. Red Hawk
 Location: 1 mile south of Palo Verde
 Size: 2,120 megawatts
 Cost: $1 billion
 Water: 13,300 acre-feet/year 90 percent recycled waste water from Palo Verde. Will use less than 1,000 acre-feet/year of groundwater.
 When: Late 2000
 Status: APPROVED February 2000
 5. Harquahala
 Location: West of Wintersberg
 Size: 1,040 megawatts
 Cost: $400 million
 Water: 6,000 acre-feet/year. CAP surface water with groundwater backup (if 100 percent groundwater is used, the water would draw down 15 to 25 feet in 40 years).
 Status: APPROVED June 2000
 6. Arlington
 Location: 15 miles southwest of Buckeye
 Size: 580 megawatts
 Cost: $250 million
 Water: 4,500 acre-feet/year of groundwater.
 When: February 2001
 Status: APPROVED July 2000, scheduled for completion this year.
 7. Gila River
 Location: 3 miles northeast Gila Bend
 Size: 2,080 megawatts
 Cost: $500 million-$1 billion
 Water: 10,000 gallons/minute
 When: Late 2000
 Status: APPROVED June 2000
 8. South Point
 Location: 28 miles south of Bullhead City
 Size: 500 megawatts
 Cost: $275 million
 Water: NA
 When: Construction began November 1999
 Status: Under construction on Fort Mohave Indian Reservation. Did not need approval of Arizona Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee or Arizona Corporation Commission because plant is being built on reservation.
 9. Kyrene
 Location: 7005 S. Kyrene Road in Tempe
 Size: 250 megawatts
 Cost: N/A
 Water: 1,600-acre feet per year. Uses SRP surface water or city of Tempe effluent.
 Status: APPROVED November 2000 and proposed to be up and running in 2002
 10. Santan
 Location: Gilbert
 Size: 825 megawatts, using three combined-cycle gas-turbine engines and delivering power through existing local transmission lines
 Cost: $410 million-$430 million.
 Water: Expects to use combination of surface water from Salt and Verde rivers from the town of Gilbert, excess Colorado River water from the town of Gilbert or another supplier of groundwater.
 Status: APPROVED November 2000, expected to be operational in 2005
 11. Gila Bend
 Location: 6 miles northwest Gila Bend
 Size: 845 megawatts
 Cost: $400 million
 Water: 5,000 acre-feet/year
 When: Construction to begin late 2001
 Status: APPROVED April 2001, construction scheduled to begin later this year.
 12. Big Sandy
 Location: 4 miles southeast of Wikiup
 Size: 720 megawatts, natural gas fired combined cycle turbines
 Cost: $425 million
 Water: 3,200 acre-feet per year of groundwater
 When: Construction for Phase I anticipated to begin July 2002
 Status: Application filed with Arizona Power Plant & Line Siting Committee on March 29, 2000.
 13. Mesquite Generating Station
 Location: Western Maricopa County, near Arlington
 Size: 1,265 megawatts, natural gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbines
 Cost: $480 million
 Water: Total water usage estimated to be 7,490 acre-feet per year. The property comes with agricultural water rights of about 15,000 acre-feet per year. Conversion of the agricultural water rights in accordance with Arizona Department of Water Resources policies results in a reduction to approximately 8,000 acre-feet per year of Type 1 industrial groundwater rights.
 When: Construction expected to begin in the second quarter of 2001.
 Status: APPROVED December 2000. Construction to begin in second quarter of 2001.
 14. La Paz
 Location: La Paz County, 75 miles west of Phoenix
 Size: 1,080 megawatts, natural gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbines
 Cost: $540 million
 Status: Press release announcing these plans dated Oct. 17, 2000
 15. Montezuma Energy Project
 Location: Near Mobile, in Maricopa County
 Size: 520 megawatts, natural gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbines
 Status: Plans announced in late October 2000.
 16. Toltec Power Station
 Location: Near Eloy, south of Casa Grande
 Size: 2,000 megawatts, natural gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbines
 Cost: $1 billion
 When: To be constructed in phases. First phase scheduled for completion in 2003.
 Status: Hearings before the Arizona Power Plant & Transmission Line Siting Committee started May 10.
 17. Sundance Energy Project (Peaker)
 Location: Private lands in Pinal County near Coolidge
 Size: 600-megawatt natural gas-fired simple-cycle peaking facility
 Water: Estimated at 600 acre- feet per year of surface water from the Central Arizona Project from an existing irrigation canal or a new groundwater well or combination of both.
 Status: Plant is projected to run approximately 2,000 hours per year. Hearing held in December 2000 in Coolidge. Approved by Arizona Power Plant & Line Siting Committee. Pending hearing before the Arizona Corporation Commission.
 18. Beaver Dam Power Project
 Location: Northwest Arizona in Mohave County near Littlefield
 Size: 500-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas
 Status: Plans announced in November 2000, to be operational in 2003.
 19. Maestros Group Nogales Project
 Location: Nogales
 Size: 500-megawatt natural gas-fired plant
 Cost: $250 million plus transmission costs; total estimated at $315 million
 Water: Plans to use treated effluent; consumption estimated at 3 million gallons per day
 Status: Plans announced in November 2000.
 20. Springerville Plant Expansion
 This plant may have been approved as a four-unit plant originally. May not need to go through Arizona Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee process. Two 380-megawatt units already exist at Springerville.
 Location: Springerville
 Size: Two new 380-megawatt coal-fired generators
 When: To be placed in service in 2004 and 2005
 Status: Plans announced Feb. 1, and to be in service by 2005
 21. Yuma Power Project
 Location: East of Ligurta
 Size: 520 megawatts
 Cost: $300 million
 Water: Colorado River water
 Status: Recently announced 


 

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