McCarthy completes construction on 200-MW Arizona solar project set to power Microsoft data center

• McCarthy Building Companies' Renewable Energy and Storage Group recently finished building and last appointing of the 200-MWdc Sun Streams 2 solar project in Maricopa County, Arizona.

The project is positioned on greater than 1,000 acres around 40 miles west of Phoenix. McCarthy's Renewable Energy and Storage Group functioned as EPC service provider for the project, which is now possessed by Longroad Energy. Longroad Energy acquired the project from First Solar in early 2021.

Sun Streams 2 has greater than 450,000 First Solar Series 6 modules as well as additionally consists of a substation development. McCarthy's self-perform area forces installed all modules, 5,805 Nextracker trackers, 53 SMA MWPS-4000 inverter skids, all DC wiring and combiner boxes and all below ground 34.5 kV air conditioning collection electrical wiring. The project used greater than 250 local workers for its construction, and also employment was mostly carried out in Buckeye and Goodyear, Arizona.

" Building solar plants in sunny Arizona has actually always made sense, and also the fact that we had the ability to hire and train more than 250 employees from the neighborhood for professions in this rapidly expanding sector makes this project a lot more impactful," claimed Scott Canada, elderly vice head of state of the Renewable Energy and also Storage group at McCarthy. "Longroad was an excellent partner to carry the last building and construction and commissioning of this solar project, in part due to the fact that we share a commitment to bringing solar power and also its financial benefits to neighborhoods across the nation. We're looking forward to future partnerships with them as they expand their impact in Arizona and in other places."

Sun Streams 2 is readied to aid power brand-new Microsoft data centers in Goodyear as well as El Mirage, Arizona.

Sun Streams 3, 4 and 5 are advancement projects with target functional days between 2023 as well as 2025. These projects are ideally placed to suit a selection of offtake frameworks, with or without storage. The projects are expected to create over $40 million for Arizona's colleges by means of a lasting lease with the Arizona State Land Department, and also over $5 million in tax earnings.