1. Energy Landscapes of the Southwest:
The Unseen Cost of Sprawl
Prof. Martin J. (Mike) Pasqualetti
School of Geographical Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287

2. Overview Booming Phoenix Over-emphasis on Water
Colorado Plateau Attributes
Energy Landscapes as Hidden Costs
Opportunities and Potential

3. Wild Arizona

4. Tamed* Arizona
*and unsustainable

7. Metro Phoenix (growing @ 100,000 Per Year)

8. Phoenix is in a Tough & Isolated Place
Denver 810 mi
Salt Lake City 650 mi
San Francisco 760 mi
Los Angeles 400 mi
☼ Phoenix
Houston 1160 mi

9. Water and Energy

10. Salt River Project Canal System
1 MAF/yr
131 miles of canals
7 dams

11. Central Arizona Project
336 miles Colorado R – Tucson
1.5 MAF/yr – 2.2 MAF/yr
$3.6 billion to construct

12. The Enjoyment of Water

13. The Dangers of Energy

14. Hiding Energy

16. National Parks

17. Bryce

18. Zion

19. Canyonlands and the La Sals

20. Arches

21. Grand Canyon

22. Dolores River Canyon, SW Colorado

23. Monument Valley

24. Monument Valley

25. Navajo Mt and Straight Cliffs from Boulder Mountain

26. The apex of pre-Columbian Puebloan civilization
Chaco Canyon
The apex of pre-Columbian Puebloan civilization

27. Hogans on Navajo Reservation

28. Energy Landscapes Strip Mining

35. Coal sized and stored, ready for the conveyor belt

36. Conveyor Belt to move coal off Black Mesa

38. Black Mesa, Arizona

40. Energy Landscapes
Transmission

41. Isolation and Distance Require Long Transmission Lines

42. Energy Landscapes Transportation

43. Storage Silo holds 24,000 tons

44. Coal Silo Loads BM&LP Railroad

45. Electric Train Moves Coal to Navajo Generating Station

47. Coal Slurry Controversy
Mohave Generating Station closed on December 31, 2005 after failing to reach agreements with Navajo and Hopi leaders on coal and water leases. The pipeline and the Black Mesa coal mine also ceased operation

48. Indigenous Opposition

49. Energy Landscapes
Air Quality

50. Four Corners Power Plant
Mojave Power Plant
Four Corners Power Plant

52. Navajo Generating Station installed sulfur scrubbers in 1998 to help improve air quality in Grand Canyon

53. Degraded Visibility

54. Energy Landscapes
Hydro

56. Up Face Canyon, 1962
Up West Canyon Creek, August 1963
Up Dungeon Canyon, June 1962

57. Navajo Generating Station Plumes © National Geographic Society

58. Opportunities and Potential

59. Snapshot of Arizona’s Energy Situation
Arizona’s level of population growth will outpace all other mountain states
Arizona’s benefits from energy efficiency will meet or exceed all other states
Arizona’s greatest opportunity to meet demands with local resources is with renewable energy
Arizona’s greatest need will continue to be to meet demands without further degrading environmental quality

60. Opportunities for Renewables and Efficiency
Rapid growth favors quick and substantial benefits from sustainable architecture and engineering
World-class resource favors solar/PV, solar hot water, and solar/hydrogen
Open space, isolated areas of demand, rapid growth, polluted air, add value to the development of solar energy
Unusual co-located resources of wind, solar, and geothermal favor ‘renewable energy parks’ (e.g. Springerville)

61. Solar Energy – Arizona Leads the Nation in Resources

62. Distribution of Arizona’s Solar Resource
Data source: NREL, 2002

63. Arizona’s Approach to Basic Needs? Resource Inversion
Solar Energy (MW)
Water (gallons)
Assumptions: Solar based on 1800MW WRA est for 2020 and <15 MW PV installed/planned. Water based on 0.5 a-f/yr household use and 7” ave annual rainfall

64. Energy Landscapes of the Southwest: The Unseen Cost of Sprawl

65. Energy Landscapes of the Southwest:
The Unseen Cost of Sprawl