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500 million cubic feet of natural gas is coming Phoenix to feed the
region's growing energy demand.

YAVAPAI COUNTY — A 284-mile-long pipeline that soon could be delivering 500
million cubic feet of natural gas energy throughout Arizona and parts of New
Mexico may be partially operational by this summer and fully functional by
the end of the year.

The pipeline will deliver energy to users throughout central and southern
Arizona. A large portion will run through ranch lands in Yavapai County and
snake southward around Phoenix toward Gila Bend before turning east toward
Coolidge. [INTERACTIVE MAP AVAILABLE]

The pipeline will deliver energy to a number of smaller additional users but
also to nine primary providers, including the Redhawk and Sundance power
plants, which are operated by Arizona Public Service Co.

“It’s strategically designed to meet capacity needs for some time in the
future and to add to Arizona’s mix of resources some features like gas
storage that weren’t there in the past,” says Arizona Corporation Commission
member Jeff Hatch-Miller, a Scottsdale Republican.

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