SRP
SRP has a passion for community service that dates back over 100 years. Whether it means providing financial support to hundreds of nonprofit organizations and events, mobilizing our remarkable volunteer force for neighborhood projects, or leading the way in environment-friendly technologies, SRP is proud to help Arizona shine. Community outreach is the hallmark of SRP's corporate culture.
2009 Navajo scholarship
SRP is offering scholarships for the 2009-10 school year to eligible members of the Navajo Nation
Eligibility
- Applicants must be enrolled members of the Navajo Nation who will be full-time students at an accredited college or university.
- Priority will be given to the math, engineering and environmental studies.
- Recipients must be a junior in college during the time the scholarship is used and must have, and maintain, a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
Profile Overview
Navajo located Generating Station - Permit Information:
SRP is two entities: the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, a political subdivision of the state of Arizona; and the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, a private corporation.
The District provides electricity to nearly 930,000 retail customers in the Phoenix area. It operates or participates in 11 major power plants and numerous other generating stations, including thermal, nuclear, natural gas and hydroelectric sources.
The Association delivers nearly 1 million acre-feet of water annually to a service area in central Arizona. An extensive water delivery system is maintained and operated by the Association, including reservoirs, wells, canals and irrigation laterals.
Mission statement
The mission of SRP is to deliver ever-improving contributions to the people we serve through the provision of low cost, reliable water and power, and community programs, to ensure the vitality of the Salt River Valley.
Navajo Generation Station Permit Information
Operator: SRP
Location: Navajo Indian Reservation near Page, Ariz.
Service area: Navajo Generating Station (NGS) serves electric customers in Arizona, Nevada and California. The station also supplies energy to pump water through the Central Arizona Project.
Description: Coal-fired generating station.
Capacity: 2,250 megawatts from three 750-MW units.
Fuel source: Peabody Western Coal Company's Kayenta Mine (50 miles to the east).
Plant construction: Construction began in 1969. The first unit began producing electricity in 1974. Commercial operation of the other units began in 1975 and 1976.
Construction costs: $650 million, including $200 million in environmental-control equipment. An additional $420 million was spent on new scrubbers in the 1990s.
Environmental control equipment: NGS is equipped with electrostatic precipitators to control fly ash, and has a lined water reservoir to help recover and contain process waste.
Additionally, NGS has three scrubbers, one for each electric generating unit at the plant. With the scrubbers, NGS ranks among the cleanest coal-fired power plants in the country.
The Navajo Scrubber Project was part of a negotiated settlement among SRP, the state of Arizona, the Grand Canyon Trust and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under the settlement, SRP agreed to remove approximately 90% of the sulfur dioxide (SO2) produced by the combustion of low-sulfur coal at NGS. The project was begun in fall 1994 and completed in fall 1999.
The scrubbers remove SO2 from the gases emitted through the plant's three chimneys. In addition to eliminating almost all of the SO2 emissions from the plant, the wet-scrubber process used at NGS also removes more fly-ash, helping to keep the air clearer.
Water intake project: To ensure that cooling water will be available for the continued operation of NGS, even under persistent drought conditions, SRP and the other operators of NGS propose to modify the water intake system of NGS by installing new intake structures at an elevation below that of the current intakes.
Below are links to documents pertinent to this project.