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ELECTRIC TIMES
S E R V I N G T H E E L E C T R I C A L I N D U S T R Y I N A R I Z O N A
THE
VOLUME 26, NUMBER 5 www.TheElectricTimes.com
FEBRUARY
2019
SRP partners with Intel on 100 MW Eloy solar project
Alan M. Petrillo
Electric Times
Salt River Project (SRP) has entered into
a collaboration to invest in clean, green
energy with zero emissions that will provide
100 megawatts of solar generation for the
Intel Chandler Ocotillo facility. SRP and
Intel have a 15-year agreement to provide
energy from a solar plant to be built in Eloy,
Ariz., by sPower, an AES and AIMCo company
.
SRP is a not-for-profit public power utility
and the largest provider of electricity in
the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, serving
more than one million customers.
“This project contributes to SRP 2035
goals, which include a commitment to
reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions
from power generation by 33 percent
,” said SRP general manager and chief
executive officer Mike Hummel. “An
important part of meeting SRP’s carbon
objectives is to work with large customers
to provide them with renewable energy
Rosendin celebrates 100 years in business with multipe events
Intel’s Chandler Ocotillo Campus.
solutions that also meet their sustainability
goals. This is a great example of how utilities
and their business customers can work
together to promote sustainability.”
Marty Sedler, director of global utilities
for Intel Corp., said the collaboration is the
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On Jan. 2 electric contractor Rosendin
celebrated 100 years of business by hosting
simultaneous parties at each of their regional
offices in different states, including their
Tempe office which is also celebrating 25-
years of business in Arizona this year.
Just one of many events Rosendin has
planned to celebrate100 years in 2019, the
Jan. 2 parties allowed executives the opportunity
to officially announce that the company
name would change from the previous
“Rosendin Electric” to “Rosendin,” which
executives feel better reflects the wide
spectrum of services offered including
lean, pre-fabrication, BIM, augmented reality
/virtual reality, and more.
Rosendin’s Tempe office provides its
full line of services including commercial
electrical work, design-build engineering,
building information modeling, prefabrication
, renewable energy, network services
and maintenance. The Tempe office is
unique in that it handles all computer modeling
for projects nationwide, as well as
designing programs to work with augmented
reality/virtual reality used for training,
installation, safety and quality control.
Rosendin Division Manager Brandon
Stephens said the Jan. 2 party at Rosendin’s
Tempe office allowed employees to celebrate
the milestone privately and that
approximately 75-employees joined the
festivities.
“We are in the process of opening a new
office to accommodate the growing computer
team that works on BIM, AR and VR
[at the Tempe office],” said Stephens.
“Employees are currently making the transition
to the new office and will hold a ribbon
cutting event in the weeks to come.”
During the centennial celebration in
See ‘Rosendin’ page 8
first of its kind for Intel, which has three
operating manufacturing factories at its
Chandler facility. “The facility requires
very large amounts of electricity,” Sedler
pointed out. “The 100 megawatts of energy
will feed into our site and we will use all the
energy produced from that solar facility,
with additional electricity being provided
by SRP.”
Sedler noted that, “if the solar plant were
in operation today, it would provide about
80 percent of our total energy needs for the
Chandler facility. We’ve done this agreement
in order to support our environmental
and sustainability goals, and to bring new
solar to the Arizona generation grid. It’s
doing what’s right for our carbon footprint,
and at the same time not harming our shareholders
.”
Intel has invested in other solar projects
at its Arizona locations, Sedler said. “We
have more than 3,500 parking spots in Arizona
covered with solar panels that equals
7.7 megawatts of demand,” he said. “We
also have four solar hot water systems in
Arizona that supply all the hot water for our
cafeterias, gyms, and domestic use, some
small micro turbines at some locations, and
quite a few onsite electric vehicle charging
See ‘SRP’ page 6
The Rosendin Tempe office celebrated the company’s 100-year anniversary
on Jan. 2, while other regional offices did the same during simultaneous
events. The Arizona office also celebrated 25 years in the state.
Inside
Code Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
AGS creates divisions and rebrands company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Top trainers recognized at luncheon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Bettini is new executive director at ATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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IEC sees huge apprentice program enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Industry veteran joins education faculty at ELA . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
ABC reports employment surge to start the year . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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