1. Four Corners Wind Resource Center Webinar
Repurposing Navajo Generating Station Transmission:
Potential for Wind and Solar Development
April 25, 2017

2. About Apex Apex Is a Clean Energy Company We Acquire Energy Resources
We Develop Energy Projects
We Build, Own, and Operate Energy Facilities
We appreciate this opportunity to dialogue with the Four Corners Wind Resource Center and its partners, Northern Arizona University, the Interwest Energy Alliance, and Utah Clean Energy.

3. Apex U.S. Project Portfolio
Wind Project
Operating / Under Construction
Solar Project
Financed
2,226
Placed in Operation
1,962
Under Construction
264
Development
14,260
Active
12,910
Final Review
1,350

4. Operational Facilities
1,962 MW operating
300 MW
Canadian Hills, OK
300 MW
Balko, OK
298 MW
Kingfisher, OK
152 MW
Grant, OK
98 MW
Hoopeston, IL
165 MW
Cameron, TX
147 MW
Grant Plains, OK
299 MW
Kay, OK
202 MW
Cotton Plains, TX

5. Projects Under Construction
264 MW under construction
15 MW
Phantom Solar, TX
249 MW
Chapman Ranch, TX

6. Spotlight on Phantom Solar
Solar facility on-site at U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hood
Bell County, Texas
COD expected April 2017
15 MWac capacity
28-year supply agreement with the Defense Logistics Agency–Energy
Combines with output from Apex’s Cotton Plains Wind facility in Floyd County, Texas
Apex is developing several solar projects across the United States.

7. Navajo Generating Station
The Navajo Generating Station is a 2,250-megawatt coal-fired power plant located on the Navajo Indian Reservation near Page, Arizona.
The four utility owners of the
power plant voted to operate it no longer than The Navajo and Hopi Nations are considering other uses for the land and associated transmission, including solar and wind generation.
Image source: Tucson Electric Power IRP

8. Wind Resource – New Mexico
There is a significant low-cost, late-p.m. generation wind energy resource from New Mexico that can be supplied to western markets.

9. Wind Resource – Arizona
Arizona has a modest wind resource:
TEP 100 MW project
DOE study – 100 MW Hopi wind energy project, south of Winslow, AZ
Recent proposals could provide a market for wind energy in AZ.

10. Solar Resource
There is a robust solar resource in the region.

11. Potential for a Solar Plant
Location
4 Corners Region
Capacity
~250 MWs
Target COD
2019
GHI Resource Value
5.7 kWh/m2/day
Jobs Created
Construction: ~ 750
Operation: ~ 45
Land area
2,200 acres
Siting
Four Corners Region
Entitlements and Permitting
CEC from Arizona Corporation Commission (Arizona Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee) for transmission line (if not on tribal land)
Bureau of Indian Affairs (if on tribal land)

12. Benefits - Solar Plant
Employment opportunities – general laborers, electricians, carpenters.
Revenue from lease payments, consulting fees and the purchase of local materials.
Community and educational benefits
Low resource impact - no water use, no air emissions, and no waste production.
5.7 kWh/m2/day

13. Benefits - Solar Plant Example:
250 MW Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project
Commissioned 3/17/17
Occasioned by closing of Reid Gardner coal plant
First utility-scale solar plant built on tribal land

14. Thank you!
Jessie Audette
Senior Director, Project Development
Apex Clean Energy