Cholla Power Plant - Joseph City, AZ

The actual name is Cholla Power Plant and it is in Joseph City rather than Holbrook. The owner is Arizona Public Service Co.

Greg, Thanks for the correction! S

Nice Ariel view of Cholla Power plant in NE AZ. Funny thing about this power plant, it is in NE AZ 5 miles west of Holbrook AZ and 1 Mile SE of Joseph city AZ and not (1) one WATT of the power produced in it is used in the state of ARIZONA! Every stinking watt goes to southern California or to Oregon! When the power lines fail in the winter you set in the cold and freeze but you can't get any power out of this plant! even though it is less than 10 miles from where I live. Talk about having priorities screwed up!

I hear ya hammerhead. It's probably because those states pay more for the power. At least be grateful that Colorado keeps the water flowing to your state. Maybe in the future solar will be more viable.

Hammerhead is correct and wrong at the same time. ALL electricity from Arizona power plants goes to a central hub in phoenix Arizona and from there is distributed thru Arizona and California. So it's hard to say if power from this plant is supplying holbrook or Joseph city because it all get's mixed up in phoenix. But I do know that unit one at cholla has direct power lines to towns on the reservation. So, yes this plant does supply parts of Arizona.

And as for your comment scenicplaces. I don't ever wish for solar power.. if that ever becomes the primary source of electricity can you imagine how many solar farms that would take to supply most of the U.S? And can you imagine how much that would cost to build those? And can you imagine how much that would cost us in our electric bills? The price of building them has to be passed off to someone..