Coalition for Affordable Energy New Mexico
Legislative proposals including securitizing stranded costs, increasing the renewable portfolio standard, or limitations on coal-fired generating plants must address the impacts to state and municipal budgets, jobs and electricity rates.
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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Charlie Jones, Jr. asks You to Contact Elected Officials regarding San Juan Generating Station
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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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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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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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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The ‘duck curve’ is solar energy’s greatest challenge
Why is so much solar energy wasted, and can anything be done about it? The answer is obviously storage, but how many years, decades or centuries will it take for economical solutions to emerge?
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