Over the Next Decade in Arizona, Advanced Energy Tax Credits Will Generate:
$75B New Private Sector Investments
$29.7B New Manufacturing Investments
Agave Solar + Storage Plant
- Status: Operational and Expanding
- Location: Arlington, AZ (Maricopa County)
- Congressional District: Arizona 9th
- Technology: Solar + Storage
- Relevant Tax Provisions:
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Domestic Content
- Fast Facts:
- Agave Solar Plant became operational in 2023 and provides energy to roughly 24,000 Arizonans.
- This project uses domestically manufactured solar panels and recruited local workers and military veterans to install the more than 400,000 solar panels on-site.
- Construction is underway to expand Agave to pair state-of-the-art batteries to its facility, adding 150 megawatts of energy storage.
Chiricahua Community Health Center
- Status: In Development
- Location: Douglas, AZ (Cochise County)
- Congressional District: Arizona 7th
- Technology: Solar + Storage
- Relevant Tax Provision:
- Investment Tax Credit
- Transferability
- Fast Facts:
- The Chiricahua Community Health Center represents the largest primary care organization in Southeastern Arizona. From their medical, dental, and pharmacy facilities in Douglas, the organization serves roughly one quarter of the entire population of Cochise County.
- Chiricahua has partnered with an advanced energy company to develop a 312-panel solar project that will serve their facilities in Douglas, generating enough electricity annually to power 100% of the Center’s demand. The project likewise includes a 500-kilowatt hour energy storage system.
- By pairing solar and storage, this project will also allow these health facilities to maintain operations even when the grid goes down, as it does frequently. In the first six months of 2024 alone, the grid in Douglas experienced more than ten power outages, with extreme heat and wildfire risk both raising the likelihood of such events and the dangers from them.
- This project will likewise allow the Health Centers to lock in current power prices for the next 20 years, providing valuable economic security in the face of rising costs.
Goodyear Solar Module Assembly Plant
- Status: Operational
- Location: Goodyear, AZ (Maricopa County)
- Congressional District: Arizona 9th
- Technology: Solar Module Assembly
- Relevant Tax Provision: Manufacturing Production Tax Credit (45X)
- Fast Facts:
- 1.5 GW of annual production capacity, with room to expand to 2 GW.
- The facility is producing 10,000 modules per day.
- At full capacity, the facility will create 630 local, good-paying jobs.