Earlier this month, council leaders of the Gila River Indian Group, led by Arizona Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis, signed an settlement with the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers to start work on a solar-over-canal pilot mission.
By setting up panels over a portion of the neighborhood’s Degree High Canal, the mission goals to preserve water and generate vitality for tribal irrigation services. Section I mission prices are estimated to be $6.74 million and it’s anticipated to provide roughly 1 MW of renewable vitality.
With the execution of this settlement, the Military Corps will now start the mission’s building part, with completion anticipated in 2025.
“I need to personally thank Assistant Secretary Connor for his imaginative and prescient and steadfast help for this modern mission. Our work with the assistant secretary dates again many years, and the neighborhood deeply appreciates him and his help,” says Lewis.
The PPA describes the mission and the duties of the federal authorities and the non-federal sponsor within the cost-sharing and execution of labor.
