The Southwestern United States is a dynamic region with an expanding economy. To meet the electricity needs new power projects must be constructed to enable continued growth. The Western Electricity Coordinating Council's 2006 Ten-Year Coordinated Plan Summary identified the Arizona/New Mexico/Southern Nevada as areas in need of additional power generation to sustain growth. The plan estimates that summer loads in the Arizona, New Mexico and South Nevada region will increase at a compounded growth rate of 2.9 percent. This will result in summer peak loads increasing from 28,281 MW in 2006 to 36,526 MW in 2015, an increase of 8,245 MW. Desert Rock will contribute 17% of the new generation that will be required to serve the projected load growth in the Arizona, New Mexico and Southern Nevada region by 2015. The Desert Rock Energy Project is a development by Sithe Global Power, LLC and the Din� Power Authority, an enterprise of the Navajo Nation. The project consists of a 1,500MW coal fired power plant that uses Navajo coal and will deliver power to these areas of the Southwestern United States.