The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) is majority owned by the Central Arizona Project and the connected Salt River Project and provides the 2.8 million megawatt hours per year required to power the Central Arizona Project. The NGS along with the now demolished Mojave Generating Station in Southern Nevada, owned by Southern California Edison, are the sole consumers of Black Mesa coal.

These two power generation stations are prime examples of the outsourcing of environmental degradation: polluting the air above the Grand Canyon and Glen Canyon, and depleting the ground water under the Black Mesa.

The Navajo Generating Station is schedule to be decommissioned in 2019 due to the availability of cheaper electric power from non-coal sources. This will result in large job losses among the Navajo at both NGS and at the Black Mesa Mine, as well as the loss of a significant portion of the annual Navajo Nation tribal budget that comes from royalties paid on the power plant and the mine.

Imagery: Navajo Generating Station, central coal distribution at Black Mesa Mine.