Bill calls for carbon-free electricity in NM by 2045 (Power by sun, wind, rainbows & unicorn farts)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | February 7, 2019 | Kevin Robinson-Avila

[CedarDave]

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham threw her support behind a comprehensive energy bill Thursday that could pave the way to a 100 percent carbon-free electric grid in New Mexico by 2045.

Senate Bill 489, co-sponsored by Democratic lawmakers Mimi Stewart and Jacob Candelaria in the Senate and Nathan Small in the House, sets aggressive requirements for public utilities to acquire renewable resources over the next 20 years while eliminating all carbon-emitting generation.

It also authorizes the use of bonds for Public Service Co. of New Mexico to pay for costs associated with closing the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington by 2022, and for pulling out of the nearby Four Corners Power Plant by 2031. The bonds would be paid for by customers through a surcharge on their bills.

Overall, SB 489, officially called the “Energy Transition Act,” creates a pathway for New Mexico to replace coal and other fossil fuel-based generation with a clean energy economy over the next 25 years, the governor said. “…The renewable and zero-carbon standards outlined in this bill are among the strongest in the country.”

In particular, the bill would require public utilities to derive 50 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by 2030, and 80 percent by 2040. They would completely eliminate carbon-emitting generation by 2045, relying on new technologies such as battery storage systems to make up the difference.

Those goals drew broad support from environmental groups.

“In general, the bill puts us on the same track as California to a 100 percent carbon-free energy economy by 2045, ” said Camilla Fiebelman, director of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter. “But in California’s case, that’s an aspirational goal. In our case, it’s a mandate.”

[CedarDave]

There is a bill in the legislature to legalize recreational marijuana. With all the costly and totally impractical legislation coming out of Santa Fe, I think the Dims have already been smoking lots of it.

A Sierra Club representative said getting to carbon-free energy in 2045 is an aspirational goal in California. In New Mexico "it's a mandate."

[CedarDave]

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[Regulator]

“closing the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington by 2022, and for pulling out of the nearby Four Corners Power Plant by 2031”

Should PO all the Navajos and Hopis who have jobs at those plants

Probably going ballistic about it on KTNN right now

[Paladin2]

"Normal human metabolism produces heat at a basal metabolic rate of around 80 watts.[1]

During a bicycle race, an elite cyclist can produce close to 400 watts of mechanical power over an hour and in short bursts over double that — 1000 to 1100 watts"

Good luck with driving across the Country or powering a passenger train.

[Da Coyote]

Sorry to appear sexist, but is there a dimbulbcrat female poli-critter out there who manages to reach a three digit IQ?

Thankfully, all the females I know have accomplishments that these dimbulb bimbos would need quotas to fake.

The nicest thing of all about progressive and science is that physics is waiting. Waiting to give them a reality willie.

[CedarDave]

Should PO all the Navajos and Hopis who have jobs at those plants. Probably going ballistic about it on KTNN right now

Because of excerpt length, I had to leave out a sentence that said the bill authorizes creation of two new funds for economic development and worker re-training to mitigate the impact of closing the San Juan coal plant and mine.

More state spending made necessary only by their total obsession with global warming and eliminating fossil fuels. And whatever new jobs are created won't make up for the wages and benefits lost by the workers when the plants are shuttered.

[gibsonguy]

idiots, get ready for brownouts.

[antidemoncrat]

Warning: Unicorn farts solidify into Democrats.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Welcome th the 17th century. You’re gonna love it there...

[Regulator]

Navajos are already working against this crap:

https://www.navajo-tec.com/

NTEC is a Navajo nation energy company that’s buying mines and power plants on the Rez, keeping them going.

Heard about it on www.ktnnonline.com within a minute or two of tuning in.

It’s a big deal to them. They don’t think much of the paleface watermelon hippies trying to starve them.

[teeman8r]

walking aint even carbon free...

what idjuts.

[freedumb2003]

>>Good luck with driving across the Country or powering a passenger train.<<

Think like a democrat. Tie 1,000 of them together and make them paddle at the point of a gun.

They loved their slavery then and they love it now. Might as well add some cyclists.

[Daniel Ramsey]

I already have plans on how to build a waste oil, wood pallet and junk mail burning boiler for my steam driven generator.

[JWNM]

After the election, then new governor as much as said she beholding to environmental groups. It was something along the lines of “fulfilling promises made...”. She is going to destroy our already fragile economy.

[-YYZ-]

“idiots, get ready for brownouts.”

And a dearth of economic activity (and huge costs to consumers) when the price of electricity goes up to $.50/KwH (or more), as it almost inevitably must to pay (particularly) for stuff like storing power for use at night when the sun don’t shine and, often, the wind don’t blow.

[ican'tbelieveit]

These battery storage systems are worse than fossil fuels. Toxic beyond belief.

And to have whole buildings of them? Go up in flames?

[Lean-Right]

They’re trying to stuff NM further
down the gopher hole. The only thing
keeping this state floating is it’s
oil and gas production. I would add
the dairy industry, but we all know
how they feel about cow farts.
Michell Libyan Grisham accompanied
Nancy Pelosi on a trip down to Mexico
in May 2016. Under what capacity? How
much of New Mexico did they give away?

[SaveFerris]

[and junk mail burning]

Well, there really is no “junk mail”.....

Do I smell?

Pantene!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3wkyqp3Kc

[jonascord]

When Ultimate Evul was president, and promised to eliminate the coal industry, recall that his media elves were pumping out "learn to code".

Is the NM government saying the same thing, or are the avoiding those words?

Seems those same elves react poorly to that incantation...

[PIF]

Heard a call in on Rush I think from NM saying something like solar is not efficient in NM, but is more efficient in Midwest - that may be, but in the Midwest solar on the roof means a leaky roof ...

Will be a lot of too hot and too cold people cowering in their NM homes, giving new meaning to “the huddled masses” ... meanwhile random, long lasting black and brown outs will be touted as a feature by the socialists.