By Emery Cowan | Arizona Daily Sun
In May of last year, the 120,000 photovoltaic solar panels at the Kayenta Solar Plant went operational, becoming the first utility-scale solar plant on the Navajo Nation.
Now, just over a year later, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority that owns the Kayenta plant is pushing ahead with two more solar projects on the reservation.
First up is a new array located adjacent to the Kayenta solar plant that will double solar generating capacity at that site to 55 megawatts. Construction will begin in August.
The other project is being proposed near Gray Mountain and Cameron, less than an hour north of Flagstaff.
