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

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Garcia: Without state grid reform, San Antonio could face a repeat of February's 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 hash out these issues. The panel took more than 400 questions and comments from understandably conc...

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 ratepayers. CPS has long faced criticism for operating the J.K. Spruce coal plant, which emitted over ...