2010 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Luke Air Force Base (AZ) solar plan
 
Solar construction at Luke set for 2011

by Rebekah L. Sanders
The Arizona Republic
August 11, 2010

SunPower Corp. expects to begin building one of the largest solar arrays in the nation at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale by the beginning of next year, base officials announced Tuesday.

...

Arizona Public Service would pay for and own the array of high-efficiency panels that San Jose-based SunPower would design, build and maintain. APS would sell the energy to its Valley customers and charge Luke a fixed electricity rate under a 25-year agreement. Luke would provide the 101 acres for the project south of its runway.

The project is a safe alternative for vacant land that otherwise would not have been developed because of regulations to protect Luke flight operations, APS and base officials said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2010/08/11/20100811biz-sunpower0811.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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