page_title: Solar power in Arizona
section_title: Generation
hierarchical_section_title: Solar power in Arizona / Statistics / Generation
caption_attribution_description: English: 2015 Monthly Solar Profile for AZ&#91;1&#93;
context_page_description: Solar power in Arizona has the potential to, according to then-Governor Janet Napolitano, make Arizona "the Persian Gulf of solar energy". In 2012, Arizona had 1,106 MW of photovoltaic solar power systems, and 6 MW of concentrated solar power, bringing the total to over 1,112 megawatts of solar power. The Solana Generating Station is a 280 MW parabolic trough solar plant which is the largest plant of its type in the world. Solana includes 6 hours of power storage by molten salt. The plant will provide 5% of the power from Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility.
  A Renewable Portfolio Standard set by the Arizona Corporation Commission requires 15% renewable energy by 2025 among regulated utilities, 4.5% of which must come from distributed renewable energy sources.
context_section_description: Arizona utility scale solar electric generation:
  (*) Preliminary data from Electric Power Monthly.
  (**) Data from Solar Energy Industries Association.
  Beginning with the 2014 data year,  Energy Information Administration has estimated distributed solar photovoltaic generation and distributed solar photovoltaic capacity. These non-utility scale estimates project that, Arizona, generated the following additional solar energy.
caption: 2015 Monthly Solar Profile for AZ[33]
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