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Pandemic delays solar projects meant to replace San Juan coal plant

Dive Brief: The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has issued two all-source Requests For Proposals (RFPs) to support expected economic growth in the state, and to replace the planned Rockmont solar-plus-storage project, which is not on track for completion by 2022 as originally planned. Tom Fallgren, PNM vice president of generation, said PNM had issued two extensions on the Rockmont project, which had run into siting difficulties, before submitting a notice of default to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission on Monday. Completing the Rockmont project at a later date is not of...

The San Juan Gernerating Station operating west of Farmington. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Public Service Company of New Mexico released two new “requests for proposals” Monday morning for energy developers to potentially supply up to 700 megawatts of new electric-generating capacity. That includes an RFP for 400 MW of power to meet projected electric demand and to guarantee grid reliability when PNM abandons the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington in June 2022. New replacement generation is needed because one of the four solar farms with back-up battery storage that is plann...

May 23—Many environmental groups and other organizations say Public Service Company of New Mexico should get out of the pollution-spewing Four Corners Power Plant — but not the way the utility has proposed. PNM's agreement to transfer its share of the coal-fired plant to Farmington-based Navajo Transitional Energy Co. is worse than the status quo, they contend. They argue

New Mexico coal plant to limit operations starting in 2023 Follow Us Question of the Day     By - Associated Press - Friday, March 12, 2021 FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - The coal-powered Four Corners Generation Station in New Mexico will limit its operations starting in 2023, the station’s owners announced on Friday. The plant’s five co-owners agreed to shut down one of the facility’s two generators for seven months each year beginning in the fall of 2023. The other generator will operate year-round. TOP S...