Posted on 09/22/2022 5:58:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico regulators are concerned about the ability of the state’s largest electric providers to meet demands during peak seasons in 2023 and 2024.
The Public Regulation Commission convened a special meeting Thursday with utility executives to discuss supply chain issues that have delayed projects that were meant to fill the void as Public Service Co. of New Mexico shutters a major coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico and as demand increases.
PNM executives said the utility will have “quite a hole” to fill next summer since solar and battery storage systems that were initially expected to be online to replace the San Juan Generating Station — which is closing next week — won’t be operating as planned.
El Paso Electric, a utility that serves customers in southern New Mexico, also is expecting a capacity gap next summer. Like PNM, El Paso Electric will have to buy power from other producers to ensure adequate capacity when customers crank up their air conditioners during the hottest of days.
Utility executives told the regulators about skyrocketing prices for materials, escalating delivery costs and the inability of manufacturers to fill orders for items such as solar panels, transformers and other components needed to build new generating stations.
For those manufacturers who are still accepting orders, lead times can be as long as 72 months. Even the pieces needed to splice cables together before burying them are in short supply.
Still, the plan is to keep the lights on, said Mark Fenton, executive director of regulatory policy and case management for PNM.
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Unexpected!
Here we go, ping.
I guarantee the latter
Well, now I gotta get me one of them newfangled electric horseless carriages for sure!!!!
(I’ll post to the NM ping list, in case Dave is busy.)
The answer to this problem is obvious.
Everyone buy an EV and destroy the oil and gas industries.
Maybe New Mexico should keep the output of the Red Cloud Wind Project in New Mexico and stop sending the electricity to California.... Is it fair to make out states pollute their states to provide electricity to California?
Well, in New Mexico they have a plethora of Democrats. That equals idiots.
Put Greta in charge!!!
Wait until the dumb bass turds are all plugging in EVs. LOL!
WTH, the city planner write city plans my the month????
never heard of growth or expansion for the future???
The fools running the show knew this 20 years ago and yet they hustled forward with their Climate Goddess Worship.
There is some serious pain in peoples future if you live in a “western society”.
Weel gee... let’s ramp up the production of more electric cars. Then when the power grid breaks down they can stop everyone in their tracks .
Yes, only the bestest expert will do.
Or perhaps they should not have shut down and destroyed the Navajo Power Station, one of the largest power plants in the nation, in Page???
The power plants West of Farmington are being shut down, what about the ones south of Waterflow? Wonder if the Hydro Plant in Farmington can take up the slack.(snark)
The ones at Page AZ have been destroyed. Maybe it is time to reconsider a mine mouth plant on the coal beds of South Utah. It was planned over 50 years ago on the Kaiparowits Plateau. Never built.
Or maybe demand higher prices and withhold power until California pays more for spoiling their air, water and land 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can’t they just put more outlets in the homes
Meanwhile California continues to suck electricity heavily from surrounding states including Arizona. Beginning to sound pretty iffy for the Southwest as fellow rat imbeciles in NM insist on shooting themselves in the foot.
Even easier....deport ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS!!! Done! Water and electric for all American citizens!
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