For more than a century, Salt River Project (SRP) has produced power and delivered water to meet the needs of its customers in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. Today, as one of the nation’s largest public power utilities, SRP provides reliable electricity and water to more than 1 million customers and employs about 4,500 people.

In order to produce power, including generation, transmission, and distribution, to this 2,900 square-mile service area, SRP uses a combination of production methods including hydro, gas turbine, coal-fired, nuclear, solar, geothermal, and wind-generation.

Furthermore, SRP is the largest water supplier in the Phoenix metropolitan area, responsible for water transmission and distribution for a 375 square-mile service area while managing a 13,000 square-mile watershed. This water production, transmission, and distribution includes an extensive system of reservoirs, wells, canals, and irrigation laterals.

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