Green Jobs in Arizona. Solar Trough Technology Power Plant Announcement
Starwood Solar will contract with Lockheed Martin Corporation to construct a 290 megawatt (“MW”) concentrating solar trough plant inHarquahala Valley, Arizona and commit all the renewable energy and capacity from the facility to Arizona Public Service Company(APS) under the PPA. The facility, scheduled to be completed in 2013, will be the world’s largest dis-patchable solar energy plant ever built and will provide enough electricity for nearly 73,000 APS electricity customers. Lockheed Martin will be responsible for engineering, procurement and construction, as well as operations and maintenance when the solar facility is complete.
The facility is the direct result of Starwood Energy’s ongoing teaming agreement with Lockheed Martin to build utility-scale solar power facilities and is a customized response to APS which is seeking to further expand its sources of energy from renewable sources. It also reflects the latest in a string of investments in solar energy, transmission and natural gas-fired generating facilities byStarwood Energy.
Barry Sternlicht, Chairman of Starwood Energy
Today’s announcement marks an important milestone in the ongoing effort to develop and build meaningful solar generation facilities in this country. Too often, the planned facilities in this space are either too small or too thinly funded to meaningfully advance the national effort to expand the United States’ use of reliable and efficient clean energy technology. But by bringing together Starwood Energy, Lockheed Martin and APS, who have each proven to be a leader in the renewable energy space, we have the ability to build a facility that accomplishes just that for tens of thousands of people in Arizona. We are looking forward to getting started.
Brad Nordholm, CEO of Starwood Energy
When we formed our alliance with Lockheed Martin 18 months ago, this is exactly the type of game-changing project we envisioned tackling together. The combination of our ability to finance this project, Lockheed Martin’s systems integration and design expertise and APS’s drive to provide its customers with cost-effective, sustainable power will result in a state-of-the-art facility that will serve the citizens of Arizona for years to come. We look forward to working in concert with APS, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, the Arizona Corporation Commission, Maricopa County and community leaders on this facility, which will help both the state and the country take another step toward creating environmentally friendly energy solutions.
The plant will be located in the Maricopa County, Arizona, approximately 75 miles west of Phoenix, and be owned byStarwood Solar, with all the power generated by the facility provided to APS through a long-term PPA.Over the next twelve months, Starwood Energy and its affiliate Nautilus Solar Energy, LLC will work to complete permitting and structure and place the construction and permanent financing Starwood Energy acquired Nautilus to expand its solar development platform in December 2008.
Starwood Solar Trough
The facility’s solar technology will use parabolic mirrors to track the sun and focus the sun’s heat on a heat transfer fluid, which will transfer its heat energy to water, creating steam. The steam is then used to run conventional steam turbines to create electricity. The heat energy in the fluid also can be stored and used at a later time to generate electricity when most needed by APS’s customers.
Source:Starwood Solar.
About StarWood Solar 5 open positions https://careers.pinnaclewest.com/psp/pserprd/CUSTOMER/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL
Starwood Energy(Starwood) is an affiliate of the international investment firm, Starwood Capital Group. Starwood has experience in the development and construction of solar and natural gas-fired generating facilities. Since 2006, Starwood, through Nautilus Solar LLC, has begun operating seven solar power generating projects and has additional projects under construction.Starwood continues to pursue additional opportunities for energy projects.
About Nautilus Solar http://www.nautilussolar.com/about.php
Nautilus Solar is one of the industry’s fastest-growing solar development companies. Founded in 2006 as a spin-off of Nautilus Energy, LLC, Nautilus Solar delivers clean renewable energy to commercial, industrial, non-profit and utility customers. Our mission is to work closely with our clients to reduce energy costs through the use of renewable power. The company has projects in operation, construction and development in the Northeast, Southwest and Western US.
Nautilus Solar is based in Summit, New Jersey
About LockHeed Martin Corporation 5639 Open positions http://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/jobsearch_all.asp
Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, Lockheed Martinis a global security company that employs about 146,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2008 sales of $42.7 billion.As a global security and information technology company, the majority of Lockheed Martin’s business is with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. federal government agencies. In fact, Lockheed Martin is the largest provider of IT services, systems integration, and training to the U.S. Government. The remaining portion of Lockheed Martin’s business is comprised of international government and some commercial sales of our products, services and platforms
About the Arizona Public Service Company https://careers.pinnaclewest.com/psp/pserprd/CUSTOMER/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL
An Arizona power provider and purchaser of renewable energy generation. Also owned by Pinnacle West
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Posted by Gordon Smith
on Jun 3 2009. Filed under Alternative Energy, Careers, Energy Tech, Green Career, Green Jobs, Solar Energy.
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