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Bountiful council approves participation in UAMPS 99 MW solar project with battery storage
Summary
The council authorized the city to take about a 5 MW share in a UAMPS utility-scale solar project that includes 49.5 MW of four-hour battery storage, approving Resolution 2025-10. The 25-year power-sales contract aims for commercial operation by Dec. 2027 (no later than June 30, 2028). Council members said the battery storage will help cover daily/
Bountiful City Council voted to approve Resolution 2025-10 authorizing the city to subscribe to roughly a 5-megawatt share of a 99-megawatt solar project being developed through the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS). The project pairs utility-scale solar with 49.5 megawatts of battery storage rated for four hours, and commercial operation is expected to begin in December 2027 but no later than June 30, 2028.
Alan Johnson, Bountiful power director, told the council the combined solar-plus-storage arrangement allows the city to generate during low-price daytime hours, store energy and deliver it into evening peaks in both summer and winter. He said the project’s average delivered cost for participants will likely range in the high-$60s per megawatt-hour equivalent when battery costs and tariffs are included, which the power commission staff recommended as competitive compared with wholesale alternatives under current market conditions.
Council members emphasized the operational value of storage. “It allows us to have an additional resource to be filling in that gap to bring us back into what it is,” Councilmember Price Huish said, noting storage helps with evening peaks. Johnson clarified that the city is entering a power-sales contract for entitlement to generation output rather than taking ownership of physical equipment.
The council’s action directs staff to execute the resolution and contract documents presented with the staff report and accept the approximately 5 MW subscription offered through UAMPS. The contract term is 25 years; the resolution and contract carry standard provisions for project scheduling and final tariffs. Council discussion also noted this project’s role in diversifying the city’s resource mix alongside other generation and demand-side options.
The resolution passed on a motion and voice vote. No member of the public spoke in opposition during the item’s discussion.
