STOP SRP GAS PLANTS

Utilities across the United States continue to rely on more than 1,000 polluting methane gas - and oil-fired Peaker Power Plants across the country to meet infrequent peaks in electricity demand. These Peaker plants tend to be more expensive and inefficient to run for every megawatt-hour generated than baseload methane gas plants and emit higher rates of carbon dioxide and health-harming criteria air pollutants. Peaker plants are also typically disproportionately located in disadvantaged communities, where vulnerable populations already experience high levels of health and environmental burdens.
Arizona has some of the best solar potentials in the nation, making it an ideal place for low-cost solar plus storage deployment. Despite the favorable economics, and benefits to the environment and the grid, the state remains over-reliant on fossil generation, and utilities remain too hostile to renewable energy.
The state has 17 peaking gas plants and units at larger plants, which are aging and inefficient. Agua Fria and Kyrene are older Salt River Project gas plants - one steam turbine, the other a combustion turbine adjacent to neighborhoods in Phoenix and Tempe, respectively.