Once a flashpoint in Trump’s campaign to save the US coal industry, the Navajo complex will spend the next three years being dismantled and decommissioned
The shale boom unleashed record volumes of low-cost natural gas, undermining the economics of coal generators across the USNavajo power plant in the Arizona desert, the US. Picture: 123RF/CHARLES WOLLERTZ
The end was a long time coming for the 2.25GW Navajo plant. Its owners, led by Salt River Project, had initially planned to close it in 2017 but struck a deal with leaders of the Navajo Nation to keep it going for another two years. The facility, which once produced enough power to light up 1.7-million homes, sits on Navajo land in the Four Corners area of Arizona and was a major source of jobs in the region.
Salt River Project CEO Mike Hummel described the ultimate decision to shutter Navajo as a “difficult but necessary” one. The owners of the Navajo plant — which also include Arizona Public Service, NV Energy and Tucson Electric Power — have agreed to make lease payments totalling about $110m to the Navajo Nation so the site can be decommissioned, monitored and operated as part of the region’s transmission system.
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