(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents BrightNight.)
By Griffin Uribe Brown | Phoenix Business Journal
A major Pinal County solar project has started commercial operation.
Box Canyon, a 300-megawatt utility-scale solar project, is now supplying the Southwest Public Power Agency, Inc. — a joint action agency authorized by state law to manage and pool power resources — the project’s operators said in a June 24 announcement.
The project is backed by a joint venture, BOCA BN LLC, made up of Florida-based BrightNight and Toronto-based Cordelio Power LP, which is owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Construction broke ground in Pinal County, just north of Florence, in late 2023. Previous reporting from the Business Journal found the venture company signed a long-term 2,087-acre lease for the project in October 2023, according to Pinal County records.
