Higher Electricity Rates
PNM plant closure will raise rates
This appeared as a guest column in the Albuquerque Journal | By Nate Duckett / Mayor, City of Farmington, and Kim Carpenter / County Executive Officer, San Juan County, Saturday, October 6th, 2018 We are responding to PNM executive Ron Darnell’s “for the...
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California Climate Policies Facing Revolt from Civil-Rights Groups
By ROBERT BRYCE National Review September 15, 2018 6:30 AM Hugely expensive green mandates will hit poor Californians the hardest. In April, civil-rights groups sued to stop some of California’s policies designed to address climate change. Then on Monday, California...
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California’s Energy Policies: The Poor Are Hit Hardest
National Review By ROBERT BRYCE August 3, 2015 8:00 AM For the state’s elites, fighting climate change comes first — no matter the cost. In a recent column in the Orange County Register, demographer Joel Kotkin wrote, “California is a great state in which to be rich,”...
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Commentary: Coal plant retirements could devastate power grid resiliency
Farmington Daily Time, Matthew Kandrach, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy Published 4:43 a.m. MT July 25, 2018 There is growing alarm over the loss of America’s baseload sources of electricity. Coal and nuclear power plants are being pushed off the grid by a...
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Electricity prices in California rose three times more in 2017 than they did in the rest of the United States
By Mark Nelson and Michael Shellenberger Between 2016 and 2017, California’s electricity prices rose three times more than they did in the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by Environmental Progress. The increases came despite 2017 having had the...
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