Axe H2O, the company that submitted a business proposal to the city for a privately funded desalination plant, is no longer pursuing that project.
On June 1, Axe H2O submitted a proposal to build a desalination facility that would produce up to 150 million gallons of desalinated water per day. The company planned to use the Barney Davis Power Plant as a site for the facility.
That plan ran into complications, as the property is owned by CPS Energy. Just over a week after Axe H2O made its proposal, City Manager Peter Zanoni said CPS Energy wanted to negotiate exclusively with the city…