Southwest Generation
600 Seventeenth Street, Suite 2400S, Denver, Colorado, United States

Southwest Generation is a rapidly growing privately held energy company based in Denver, Colorado, that is building a diversified portfolio of natural gas-fired power generation assets. Southwest Generation employs a strategy of improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and increasing the overall value of power generation assets. Our clean, efficient gas-fired generation assets are flexible and responsive to the integration of wind and solar generation resources, providing reliable regulation for renewable technologies. Southwest Generation has facilities located in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.

SWG's flexible power generation capability helps keep electricity flowing reliably to homes and businesses across the Southwest. Our operations and maintenance expertise translates into strong availability factors across our fleet, demonstrating our commitment to providing customers with reliable service. Our clean-burning, natural-gas-fired plants help integrate intermittent renewables into the power grid by quickly ramping up or scaling back production. When our customers need us, we are there to provide power, capacity and ancillary services customized to their businesses and their regions.

• Our 8 power plant facilities offer flexible operating profiles with quick start capabilities and are strategically located in utility load centers.
• Southwest Generation is proud of its role in supporting the rapidly-expanding renewable energy infrastructure across the western United States.
• Our team is passionate about building & acquiring state-of-the-art generation facilities and operating them with the highest standards of safety and reliability.

Our Services

Southwest Generation is a proven leader in power generation services. Our people provide over 25 years experience in operations, maintenance, asset management, project development and technical services.  Our services provide our fleet operations a very high safety and availability record surpassing IPP industry standards. Our expertise provides solutions that maximizes the operational value of the fleet to our project owners.

Operations & Maintenance

Unsurpassed Operational Performance for LM6000PC fleet.  Our fleet enjoys an exceptional availability to our clients through turbine sparing and highly skilled operators and maintenance staff who are cross-trained to provide expertise in all areas of power production.  Fully staffed, in-house, environmental health and safety organization to ensure environmental compliance and safety. Fully integrated services for NERC compliance.

Asset Management

• Highly qualified team to negotiate existing or new power purchase agreements, interconnect agreements.
• Project financial pro-forma and corporate modeling that provides clear decision making for project owners and investors.
• Complete services for accounting, monthly reporting, human resources, and payroll.
• Provide Forecast budgeting for project owners.

Technical Services

• Owner engineer, control and oversight of construction design process.
• Engineering evaluation and due diligence of existing and new projects.
• Engineering evaluation of operations to improve asset performance and efficiency.
• Optimize asset value while complying with contract obligations