1. Annual sun hours. Charts are available illustrating in precise terms the average annual hours the sun shines in any location in the United States. Twenty-two hundred hours of sun per year is an optimum number which is available in parts of the Southwestern United States including Utah.
2. The expense of the land, either for purchase or lease.
3. Is the land relatively flat? Solar projects with any technology works best on flat land without trees or mountains that create shade.
4. Availability of water. Many solar technologies require vast amounts of water. This is one reason RaPower3 has selected IAUS because they use a closed loop system. This means they reuse the water. But, they still need some water.
5. Transmission Lines and Substations. It cost about one million dollars per mile to build transmission lines. Therefore, if a solar site can be found near major transmission lines and a substation, this would be a huge plus.
6. Available acres. It requires about five acres of land per megawatt of power. One hundred megawatts would therefore need five hundred acres of land.
7. Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) and Permits.

RaPower3 is eyeing two locations. All in Utah. These sites have near the optimum annual sun hours per year on flat inexpensive land. In addition, they have water available with major transmission lines and substations in close proximity. Hundreds of megawatts of power can be produced on the available land. It is the position of RaPower3 that IAUS can obtain advantageous PPAs and Permits at these locations. These sites are in the Delta and Milford areas of Utah.

The Delta site showing RaPower3’s systems being constructed for our RaPower3 Team Members.
Rocky Mountain Power’s IPP coal plant is close by.

The coal plant near Delta, Utah. This is the largest coal plant in Utah as it produces about 1,750 Megawatts of power. About 70% of that power goes west into California and the rest goes to population centers to the east. Look closely and you will see many transmission towers. You will also see the dark and white plumes of smoke coming from the coal plant. Environmentalists are quite vocal as these pollutants head east so that hundreds of thousands can't breathe clean air. However, if you were to ask 100 people if they'd like solar energy so we could all breathe clean air, all 100 would raise their hands in the affirmative. But, if you were to ask how many would be willing to pay twice as much for solar power to breathe that clean air. Only two would raise their hand.

That's where RaPower3 with the IAUS Technology comes in. Our goal is to put 24/7 clean renewable energy on those same transmission lines into California at the same price as coal. This is something no one else in the world is even close to doing. WE ARE!