By Celia Chan | East Valley Tribune
Mesa is taking steps to insulate the 18,000 residential and commercial customers in its 5.5-square-mile Electric Service Area, which includes the downtown, from spikes in their energy bill and eventually save them some money.
Council on March 9 unanimously approved a contract with nonprofit Arizona Electric Power Cooperative to lock in a rate for 20 years of $29.63 per megawatt hour for energy and $11.65 per kilowatt a month for energy storage, beginning in 2027.
The city is one of 10 participants in AEPCO’s 400-megawatt Pinal solar project located south of Eloy in Pinal County. A 400-megawatt battery energy storage system is co-located on site.
