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Update on San Juan Generating Station and New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Hearing
Post on City of Farmington Website, February 1, 2019. Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has proposed to close San Juan Generating Station (SJGS), and effectively San Juan Mine in 2022. Your local leaders have proactively been advocating to preserve the jobs...
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The Impact of PNM’s Plans on Tipping Point New Mexico
Listen to Germaine Chappelle's discussion on the Rio Grande Foundation's Tipping Point New Mexico Podcast. Germaine addresses a variety of issues with hosts Paul Gessing and Dowd Musca. Hear about the issues related PNM's plan for San Juan Generating Station including...
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Tom Steyer’s Energy Orders – The Californian seeks to raise costs for the hoi polloi in other states
Wall Street Journal By The Editorial Board Updated Oct. 19, 2018 7:32 p.m. ET Progressive money man Tom Steyer has many causes—impeaching Donald Trump, electing Senate Democrats, and this year ballot initiatives to impose renewable-energy mandates on voters who don’t...
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Prop. 127, Arizona’s renewable energy initiative, comes down to just 4 words
Editorial board, Arizona Republic Published 6:08 a.m. MT Oct. 25, 2018 Opinion: The debate surrounding Arizona's Prop. 127 has been needlessly complicated. The clean energy mandate comes down to just four words: Right idea, wrong tool. One day Arizona will be powered...
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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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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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Californians are paying billions for power they don’t need
We're using less electricity. Some power plants have even shut down. So why do state officials keep approving new ones? Los Angeles Times | IVAN PENN and RYAN MENEZES | Reporting from Yuba City, Calif. FEB. 5, 2017 The bucolic orchards of Sutter County north of...
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