Law letting Glendale annex O'odham land is blocked

July 1, 2011

Arizona Daily Star

BP may develop mighty wind farm in Northern Arizona

July 1, 2011

Phoenix Business Journal

Energy giant BP Plc wants to build a mammoth windmill farm on a 43,000-acre site in northwestern Arizona, near the Nevada state line.

BP Wind Energy's Mohave Wind Farm would be developed on a U.S. Bureau of Land Management parcel 40 miles north of Kingman. It would be the largest in Arizona and one of the largest in the nation, with 283 windmills capable of producing 425 megawatts of renewable energy - nearly twice the output of Abengoa Solar's Solana Generating Station, under construction near Gila Bend.

BP spokesman Tom Mueller said the wind farm's development hinges on federal approvals and an environmental impact study, which is expected to be published in the fourth quarter.

TEP, SOLON Planning Energy-Storage Research Site
July 8, 2011
Renew Grid
  

Tucson Electric Power (TEP), SOLON Corp. and the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE) at the University of Arizona have partnered to design and construct an energy-storage management research and testing (SMRT) site.

According to the companies, the purpose of the site is to research the reliability and applicability of integrating different energy-storage technologies with photovoltaics onto the grid and, ultimately, to provide utilities greater control of their renewable energy portfolios.

This August, SOLON, in partnership with AzRISE, will introduce the first phase of the project with a compressed-air energy-storage (CAES) technology designed and constructed by faculty and students at the University of Arizona. The second phase of the project, due to be installed in the fall, will be a lithium-ion solution, followed by the third and fourth phases in spring 2012. All of these storage systems will be managed with SOLON's supervisory control and data acquisition system.

AZ eyes more private prison contracts
July 11, 2011
Associated Press
 

PHOENIX (AP) - A company that operates an Arizona prison where three violent offenders escaped last year is among four firms recommended as finalists by the state Department of Corrections for contracts for 5,000 new prison beds.

Centerville, Utah-based Management and Training Corp. operates the prison in Kingman that state officials have said was plagued with security flaws that allowed the escape last July.

Two of the three inmates who escaped are charged in New Mexico with killing an Oklahoma couple while the inmates were on the run.

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Abengoa, BrightSource push millions into Arizona through solar projects
July 12, 2011
Phoenix Business Journal

Corp. Comm approves slightly altered trash-incinerator waiver
July 14, 2011
AZCapitolTimes

The Arizona Corporation Commission today approved a waiver for a western Arizona utility to receive renewable energy credits for energy generated by a Phoenix-area waste-to-energy plant.

Though the Mohave Electric Cooperative, which sought the waiver, requested the plant be granted full credit for the power it generated, Commission Chairman Gary Pierce offered an amendment that dictated that the amount of credit the plant received be based on the percentage of energy it generates from biogenic sources. Mohave Electric has estimated that 91 percent of the power will come from biogenic sources.

"I believe this is a rational way to reign this in, depending on how this performs," Pierce said.

Enertopia Announces Arizona Mineral Project Acquisition

July 21, 2011

ACCESSWIRE

Vancouver, BC-Enertopia Corporation (ENRT-OTCBB) (TOP-CNSX) (the "Company" or "Enertopia") announces that it has signed an LOI to acquire a 100% interest in a gold-silver-copper project in Arizona.

The company has signed an LOI to option approx 5,000 acres of State Mineral Exploration Permits in Arizona, USA. As part of the same agreement, the company has also signed an ROFR (Right of First Refusal) on ~1,000 acres of federal mining claims and a ROFR on ~1,800 acres of state and federal lands. The Company has paid US $15,000 on signing and will pay a further $35,000 and issue 100,000 common shares in accordance with applicable securities laws and the requirements of the Canadian National Stock Exchange and any other necessary regulatory authorities upon signing the Definitive Agreement, expected on or before November 30, 2011.

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Solar Power Company Plans Giant Arizona Tower, Second Tallest Structure on Earth

July 27, 2011

ABC News

In the desert of western Arizona, a power company proposes to build the world's tallest chimney -- a tower, 2,600 feet tall, that would be the centerpiece of a giant non-polluting power plant, making electricity from the heat of the sun.

The project has been started by an Australian company called EnviroMission, which says it hopes, by the time it is finished construction in early 2015, to provide enough electricity to power the equivalent of 200,000 homes. It would burn no fuel. Nothing quite like it has ever been tried in America before.

In fact, nothing quite like it has been tried anywhere else in the world, aside from a small test project in Spain. The finished tower would be the second-tallest structure on the planet, just a hundred feet shorter than the Burj Khalifa luxury skyscraper in Dubai. It would be twice as tall as New York's Empire State Building.