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Researchers’ report calls into question CPS Energy’s rationale for continuing to burn coal. The utility says it’s more complicated.

While an early heat wave and increased demand led to plant shutdowns across the state,...

City-owned CPS is developing a pilot geothermal project at the site of the coal-fired...

CPS appears all but certain to convert Spruce 2 to run on cleaner-burning natural gas

Shutting down the coal-fired plant or converting it to run on natural gas are among the...

Shutting down the coal-fired plant or converting it to run on natural gas are among the...

Reed Williams wants to provide an alternative to the dysfunction of the two-party...

Garcia: Without state grid reform, San Antonio could face a repeat of Februarys blackouts FacebookTwitterEmail Reed Williams doesn’t go in for sugarcoating. Neither does he have much appetite for scapegoating. In early March, Mayor Ron Nirenberg enlisted the former councilman to chair a committee to examine what went wrong during the February freeze that resulted in devastating blackouts and water outages. Over three months, the Committee on Emergency Preparedness met nearly every Friday to ...

CPS Energy to consider closing coal plant, but withholds details FacebookTwitterEmail Fog is shown near CPS Energy’s J.K. Spruce coal plant in 2018. The utility has resisted calls to close the plant, citing its debt of more than $1 billion still owed on the facility.Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News CPS Energy officials Monday said the utility will consider closing the Spruce coal plant ahead of schedule — and then opted to withhold from the public details of what such a move would cost ra...