May
30
TEP to Buy Solar Power for Historically Low Price
ByThe Arizona utility signed a 20-year agreement to purchase electricity from a 100-megawatt solar facility at a new record low price. The solar project is slated for completion by the end of 2019.
On a site located inside Tucson Electric Power’s service territory south of the metropolitan area, a new 100-megawatt solar array and an accompanying 30-megawatt energy storage system will be built, owned and operated by an affiliate of NextEra Energy Resources. TEP will buy solar energy from the facility at a historically low price from the system that is large enough to power 21,000 homes…