ADVISORY/Photo of Construction Worker Robert Melendez at Pinnacle West Energys West Phoenix Power Station is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, and Business Wire's Web Site.Photo/Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) The photo is BW2 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wires Web Site at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.052201/bw2 Photo caption reads: Construction worker Robert Melendez takes advantage of the early dawn hours in Phoenix to put finishing touches finishing touches finish npl the finishing touches → der letzte Schliff finishing touches npl → ultimi ritocchi mpl on a new 120-megawatt natural gas electricity generator at Pinnacle pinnacle (pĭn`ĭkəl), minor architectural motif of vertical tapering shape, usually crowning a pier, buttress, or gable. Although sometimes it appears in Renaissance design, as in the Certosa di Pavia, it is almost exclusively a medieval West Energy's West Phoenix Power Station. Construction on the combined-cycle unit, which will meet the electricity needs of more than 100,000 homes, began last summer. The security of electricity supply to Arizona and other western states depends on new power plants being constructed and coming on-line. The unit, which is scheduled to begin commercial operations next week, is the first new generating unit designed to serve the Phoenix metropolitan area since the last of three units at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant located in Wintersburg, Arizona, about 45 miles (80 km) west of central Phoenix, is currently the largest nuclear generation facility in the United States, producing over 30,000 gigawatt hours of electricity annually began operating in 1988. Palo Verde is operated by APS, a sister company of Pinnacle West Energy. Unit 4 is at the heart of more than 500 megawatts of new generation Pinnacle West Energy is adding to its system this summer. Also, construction began in December on two of four planned 530-megawatt units at the Redhawk Power Station. Those units will be commercially operational by June 2002. Construction on another 530-megawatt unit at the West Phoenix station will begin later this summer. Pinnacle West Energy is the wholesale generating subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : PNW PNW Pacific Northwest PNW Palestinian Airlines (ICAO code) PNW Probes Northwest (Ford Probe owners club) PNW Prescott and Northwestern Railroad Company PNW Printer Not Working PNW Personal Netware ), a Phoenix-based company with consolidated assets of approximately $7 billion. Through its subsidiaries, the company generates, sells and delivers electricity and sells energy-related products and services to retail and wholesale customers in the western United States Noun 1. western United States - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River West Santa Fe Trail - a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century . It also develops residential, commercial and industrial real estate projects. (Business Wire photo) |
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