Solar
SB489 on Tipping Point New Mexico Podcast
Attorney and utility expert Germaine Chappelle returns to the Rio Grande Foundation's Tipping Point New Mexico Podcast to discuss SB 489 the Energy Transition Act. This legislation just passed the New Mexico Senate (although it had not when we recorded earlier in the...
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PNM’s plan to close San Juan Generating Station Examined
PNM’s “rationale” for seeking to close San Juan Generating Station was thoroughly examined during the company’s Integrated Resource Plan filing with the New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission. The company’s justification for its plan were severely lacking. In fact,...
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Why SB489 is so bad for New Mexico utility customers
Senate Bill 489 (click to download) bails out New Mexico's largest public utility, PNM. This bill doesn't even contemplate protecting electric customers from rapidly increasing electric rates. This bill is bad public policy that if enacted without adequate safeguard...
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Add A Rate Cap to Senate Bill 489
Senate Bill 489 has something for almost everyone, except the utility customers that will need to fund this monumental transition to renewable energy. The bill has a bailout for PNM to ensure that its shareholders don’t have to face the negative financial consequences...
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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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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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