| Navajo Generating Station | |
|---|---|
 Navajo Generating Station | |
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Navajo Nation, near Page, Arizona |
| Coordinates | 36°54′12″N 111°23′25″W / 36.90333°N 111.39028°W |
| Status | Shutdown |
| Commission date | 1974 (operated 44 years) 1975 (operated 43 years) 1976 (operated 42 years) |
| Decommission date | November 18, 2019 |
| Construction cost | $650 million (1976) ($2.71 billion in 2023 dollars[1]) |
| Owners | U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (24.3%) Salt River Project (21.7%) LADWP (former) (21.2%) Arizona Public Service (14.0%) NV Energy (11.3%) Tucson Electric Power (7.5%) |
| Operator | Salt River Project |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Power generation | |
| Units decommissioned | 3 × 803 MW[2] |
| Nameplate capacity | 2,250 MW |
| Annual net output | 12,059 GW·h (2016) |
| External links | |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
Navajo Generating Station was a 2.25-gigawatt (2,250 MW), coal-fired power plant located on the Navajo Nation, near Page, Arizona, United States. This plant provided electrical power to customers in Arizona, Nevada, and California. It also provided the power for pumping Colorado River water for the Central Arizona Project, supplying about 1.5 million acre feet (1.85 km3) of water annually to central and southern Arizona. As of 2017 permission to operate as a conventional coal-fired plant was anticipated until 2017–2019,[3] and to December 22, 2044, if extended.[4] However, in 2017, the utility operators of the power station voted to close the facility when the lease expires in 2019.[5][6] In March 2019, the Navajo Nation ended efforts to buy the plant and continue running it after the lease expires.[7]
On November 18, 2019, the plant ceased commercial generation. Full decommissioning of the site was projected to take approximately three years.[8] On December 18, 2020, the three smokestacks were demolished.[9]
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- ^ Cindy Yurth (December 27, 2018). "2018: Year of Schism". Navajo Times. p. A1.
- ^ Randazzo, Ryan; Smith, Noel Lyn (March 22, 2019). "Navajo Nation votes to end efforts to purchase coal-fired power plant, sealing its fate". Arizona Republic. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ Locke, Katherine (November 18, 2019). "Navajo Generating Station shuts down permanently". Navajo-Hopi Oberserver. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
- ^ Randazzo, Ryan (18 December 2020). "3 massive coal stacks that long towered over Lake Powell demolished as crowds watched". AZ Central. Retrieved 18 December 2020.