The Primaltrust development team has pioneered best practices for conscientious development, including:
- Salt caverns for storing green hydrogen
- Evaporative cooling for projects sited in the desert
- Treated wastewater for cooling thermal power plants & hydrolyzers
- Effluent & behind-the-meter solar to produce green hydrogen
- Federal & private mineral rights acquisition agreements
- Win-win multi-party MOUs with union and non-union labor
- Multi-party Transmission Service Agreements with Federal & Tribal parties
- DOE Loan Guarantee Program terms negotiations
- Pipeline routing optimization through strategic relationships with land owners
- Win-win deferred payment plans with law firms and consultants
- Selection, utilization & management of consultants and attorneys
- Rigorous economic impact analyses.
As a direct result of Primaltrust’s unique foundational experience, our clients benefit from established working relationships with many civic, labor, environmental, engineering, tribal and government authorities / agencies.
Federal
- Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
- US Department of Energy (DOE)
- Army Corps of Engineers
- National Park Service
- Nellis Air Force Base
Tribal
- Multiple binding MOUs with Tribal Councils
- Exclusive co-development partnerships
- Tribal Council presentations
- Cultural Resources Departments hired for NEPA process
- Tribal Ethnobotanists hired for NEPA process
- Multiple BIA-EDMP grant awards
- Tribal workforce development, job fairs & training
Regional
- Site modeling and fatal flaw analyses in NV, CA, AZ, NM & CO
- California Energy Commission (CEC) pre-certifications
- Southwest Renewable Energy Conference (SWREC) presenter
- Western Renewable Energy Zones (WREZ) contributor
- Western Regional Partnership (WRP) participant
- Western Renewable Energy Generation Information Systems (WREGIS) contributor
State
- Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC)
- Techonomy Leadership Council
- Department of Water Resources
- Department of Environmental Quality
- Department of Revenue
- Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC)
- Arizona Line Siting & Power Plant Committee
- Approved Certificate of Environmental Compatibility
County
- County Managers & Boards of Supervisors
- Planning & Zoning Commissions
- Unanimous approval of General Plan Amendments & Area Plans
- Zoning changes
- ROW & easements, eminent domain
- Workforce development
- Participant in Joint Technical Education Districts (JTEDs)
City
- Mayors & City Councils
- Municipal Utilities Commissions
- Signed effluent purchase agreement
- Economic development & tourism participation
Public Outreach
- Citizen Participation Plans
- Media relations — single point-of-contact
- Public speaker — more than 60 civic and industry organizations
- Elected officials support letters — Trent Franks, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Jan Brewer, Harry Reid
- Customized public outreach mobile apps
Land Acquisition & Analyses
- Long-term option agreements
- Purchase contracts for multiple 40-acre parcels
- Fatal Flaw Analyses
- Mineral rights acquisition from multiple parties
- BLM land swaps
- Acquisition of pipeline easements
Interconnection
- Interconnection Requests — Mead-Peacock-Liberty 345, Mead Phoenix 500
- System Impact Studies — Mead-Peacock-Liberty 345, Mead Phoenix 500
- Facilities Design Studies — Mead-Peacock-Liberty 345, Mead Phoenix 500
- State interconnections permits — Moenkopi-Eldorado 500, Mead-Peacock-Liberty 345, Mead Phoenix 500
- HVDC conversion feasibility study
- Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) Ten-Year Plan filings
- Approved Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC)
- Line Siting & Power Plant Committee (unanimous approval)
Transmission
- Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) participant
- Arizona Renewable Resources & Transmission Identification Subcommittee (ARRTIS) contributor
- OATI/OASIS certificates
- Southwest Area Transmission (SWAT) participant
- WestConnect participant
- Western Grid Group (WGG) contributor
- Arizona Corporation Commission’s Biennial Transmission Assessment contributor
- Multi-party (private & Tribal) Transmission Infrastructure Program (TIP) project proposal accepted by WAPA
Labor Relations & Workforce Development
- Green Job Fairs w/building trades, community colleges, Tribal communities
- MOU w/14 labor unions
- Arizona & Southern Nevada Building Trades
- Workforce development efforts in Mohave County & Clark County)
- Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)
Consultants & Engineering Firms
- 53 Solutions — land use strategies
- Antigua Archaeology — cultural resource surveys
- Applied Economics — economic impact studies
- Applied Environmental Consultants — Air Quality Permits, automated weather stations
- Cinnabar Southwest — mineral rights acquisition
- Columbia Strategic Consulting Group — mineral rights acquisition
- E.L. Montgomery & Associates — Certificates of Environmental Compliance, Aquifer Protection Permits
- Fichtner Solar — power plant design & engineering
- GHD — green hydrogen production design & engineering
- KP Environmental — public outreach
- Matrix New World Engineering — environmental studies
- PDS Consulting — interconnection studies, Transmission Fatal Flaw Analyses
- Sigma Consulting — environmental permitting
- Strata — salt cavern hydrogen storage design & engineering
- Tierra Environmental — Fatal Flaw Analyses, General Plan amendments, Area Plans
- Transcon — NEPA studies, Certificates of Environmental Compliance
- Western States Energy — transmission studies
Law Firms
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck — DOE Loan Guarantee Programs, NEPA, zoning, land use
- Gammage & Burnham — land services, mineral rights, effluent agreements
- Lewis & Roca — Certificate of Environmental Compatibility, Arizona Corporation Commission proceedings
- May Potenza Baran & Gillespie — land use, mineral rights
Project Finance
- Multiple successful Federal/Tribal grant applications
- Conditional approval of DOE Loan Guarantee
- Short-listed finalist for a Power Purchase Agreement — NV Energy
- US Treasury Cash Grant program participant
- Engineering, Procurement & Construction agreement — ACS Cobra
- Multiple investor/investment bank due diligence activities
- Established Standard & Poor’s credit ratings for multiple projects