125-Megawatt Photovoltaic Facility is One of Largest in the World
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that after two years of
engineering, procurement and construction work, it achieved substantial
completion of the Arlington Valley Solar Energy II facility for
Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, LLC (AVSE II), a member of LS Power
Group. The 125-megawatt facility in Maricopa County, Arizona – among the
world’s largest photovoltaic farms – has already begun supplying clean,
renewable energy to the region.
On May 1, 2013, the project announced the initial delivery of electric
energy from the AVSE II facility. Fluor joined LS Power and Arizona
Governor Jan Brewer at the site to celebrate the initial power milestone.
“This utility-scale solar project could not have been completed without
the close cooperation between LS Power, the project stakeholders and
Fluor’s project execution team,” said Matt McSorley, senior vice
president of Fluor’s Power business. “We’re proud of the hard work of
our engineering and construction teams, and we look forward to providing
operations and maintenance services at the AVSE II facility.”
“We are pleased that Fluor has completed the construction of AVSE II in
a safe manner, and ahead of schedule,” said John King, executive vice
president of LS Power. “The project has benefitted from the efforts of
countless contributors, and we’d like to thank them all.”
The AVSE II facility sits on approximately 1,160 acres of land – the
size of more than 500 football fields. The project helps make Arizona
one of the leading states in solar panel installation.
Fluor’s engineers in the company’s Irvine, California, office were
responsible for designing the facility. In completing the construction
work, Fluor installed more than 600,000 PV panels and pulled 6 million
feet of cable.
Fluor was initially awarded the lump-sum EPC contract in October 2011,
and then received a follow-on award to provide operations and
maintenance services for the facility for an additional five-year period.
About LS Power
LS Power is a power generation and transmission group with a proven
track record of successful development activities, operations management
and commercial execution. LS Power has been involved in the development,
construction, or operations of over 28,000 MW of power generation
throughout the United States. LS Power is actively developing both power
generation and transmission infrastructure to serve the need for new
generation and improve the aging transmission system. For more
information, visit www.LSPower.com.
About Fluor Corporation
For more than 100 years, Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) has partnered
with its clients to design, build and maintain many of the world's most
challenging and complex capital projects. Through its global network of
offices on six continents, more than 41,000 employees provide
comprehensive capabilities and world-class expertise in the fields of
engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, fabrication,
operations, maintenance and project management. Today, the company
serves a global client base in the energy, chemicals, government,
industrial, infrastructure, operations & maintenance, manufacturing &
life sciences, mining, power and transportation sectors. Headquartered
in Irving, Texas, Fluor ranks 110 on the FORTUNE 500 list and had
revenue of $27.6 billion in 2012. For more information, visit www.fluor.com
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