AZTEC More than half of San Juan Mine s approximately 200 workers will lose their jobs this summer. These layoffs come as funding from the Energy Transition Act remains in litigation and hopes are beginning to fade for some about a carbon capture project at the generating station it serves.
The San Juan Mine has one customer, the San Juan Generating Station. The power plant s majority owner Public Service Company of New Mexico intends to switch to using stockpiled coal this summer as it prepares to end power production at the facility in 2022.
Meanwhile, the City of Farmington and its partner Enchant Energy are pushing forward with an effort to take ownership of the full power plant and retrofit it with carbon capture technology. This would allow it to remain operating into the future, thus saving jobs at both the mine and the power plant.
As San Juan Mine braces for layoffs, assistance is uncertain and carbon capture hopes fade
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In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse.
The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid.
In the earlier cold snap, the grid was pushed to the limit and rolling blackouts swept the state, spurring an angry Legislature to order a study