Ørsted & SRP Have fun Graduation of Largest Co-located Photo voltaic & Battery Storage Undertaking on Salt River Undertaking Energy Grid

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Pinal County’s Eleven Mile Photo voltaic System comes on-line as one of many largest battery vitality storage methods inbuilt a single section within the nation

Ørsted, a number one U.S. renewable vitality firm, and Salt River Undertaking (SRP) at present celebrated the official graduation of the Eleven Mile Photo voltaic Heart, a 300 megawatt (MW) photo voltaic undertaking and 300MW/1200MWh battery vitality storage system (BESS) in Pinal County. The undertaking is a part of Ørsted’s $20 billion greenback funding in constructing out American vitality technology. Eleven Mile Photo voltaic Heart is SRP’s largest co-located photo voltaic and BESS undertaking, offering energy to companies, properties, and Meta’s information heart in Mesa, AZ.

“Photo voltaic vitality paired with battery vitality storage shall be essential to the dependable supply of energy because the demand for electrical energy grows,” stated David Hardy, Group EVP and CEO Americas at Ørsted. “Arizona has one of many highest progress charges of electrical energy within the nation as a result of surge in information facilities and the reshoring of American manufacturing. With our first undertaking in Arizona now full, we’re thrilled to assist meet the rising demand of the state and area with dependable, home vitality.”

To have a good time the financial advantages the undertaking brings to the local people and the numerous clear energy it’s contributing to Arizona, Ørsted hosted a celebration attended by U.S. suppliers, SRP, neighborhood members, and native and state elected officers at Eleven Mile’s O&M facility. The undertaking has the capability to provide sufficient vitality to energy 65,000 properties and retailer 1200 MWh of energy every day.

“The Eleven Mile Photo voltaic Heart represents a big funding in southern Arizona and help for our state’s rising vitality wants,” stated Arizona Company Commissioner Lea Marquez Peterson. “The Eleven Mile undertaking exemplifies how clear vitality can assist us diversify our sources whereas making certain reliability for the native grid.”

Eleven Mile Photo voltaic Heart represents an approximate $1 billion greenback funding by Ørsted in clear vitality for Arizona and can generate roughly $80 million to the local people for public companies within the type of tax income. Moreover, the undertaking created over 1,000 development jobs within the native space and would require further roles for operation and upkeep over the following a number of many years. Ørsted supported American firms, comparable to First Photo voltaic, Fluence NEXTracker, in procuring panels, batteries, and monitoring gear and for the undertaking.

“I’m pleased with our communities’ efforts to help this partnership between Ørsted and Salt River Undertaking,” stated Eloy Mayor Micah Powell. “This vitality undertaking is a primary of its sort in our area and can have a big impact on vitality reliability for our native space.”

With the addition of Eleven Mile, SRP has practically 3,000 MW of carbon-free vitality — together with greater than 1,400 MW of photo voltaic — serving its clients. SRP additionally has practically 1,300 MW of battery and pumped hydro storage supporting its grid. SRP is working to no less than double the variety of producing sources on its energy system within the subsequent 10 years to satisfy growing vitality demand within the Phoenix metropolitan space because it strikes ahead with the deliberate retirement of 1,300 MW of coal sources.

“The vitality and storage capability supplied by the Eleven Mile Photo voltaic System performs an essential function in serving to meet SRP’s formidable decarbonization objectives whereas offering reasonably priced and dependable vitality to our clients,” stated Bobby Olsen, Affiliate Normal Supervisor & Chief Planning, Technique & Sustainability Government at SRP. “We recognize our partnership with Ørsted and Meta to deliver extra clear vitality to our clients.”

Eleven Mile Photo voltaic Heart joins Ørsted’s rising onshore portfolio, now producing over 5,000 MW throughout the U.S., with extra capability set to come back on-line earlier than the tip of the yr.

About Ørsted

A world clear vitality chief, Ørsted develops, constructs, and operates offshore and land-based wind farms, photo voltaic farms, vitality storage amenities, and bioenergy crops. Ørsted was the primary vitality firm on the earth to have its science-based net-zero emissions goal validated by the Science Primarily based Targets initiative (SBTi) and is acknowledged because the world’s most sustainable vitality developer within the Company Knights International 100 index.

In the USA, the corporate has roughly 800 staff and a portfolio of fresh vitality property and partnerships that features offshore wind vitality, land-based wind vitality, photo voltaic, battery storage and e-fuels. Ørsted is a U.S. chief in offshore wind vitality with roughly 1.6 gigawatts in development, and three gigawatts in growth. It additionally operates America’s first offshore wind farm, situated off the coast of Block Island, and the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm, South Fork Wind. Ørsted has a complete U.S. land-based capability of ~6 gigawatts throughout wind, photo voltaic, storage applied sciences and e-fuels.

About SRP

SRP is a community-based, not-for-profit public energy utility and the biggest electrical energy supplier within the higher Phoenix metropolitan space, serving roughly 1.1 million clients. SRP supplies water to about half of the Valley’s residents, delivering greater than 244 billion gallons of water (750,000 acre-feet) annually, and manages a 13,000-square-mile watershed that features an in depth system of reservoirs, wells, canals and irrigation laterals.

Supply: Ørsted