The power plant closures are coming; the power plant closures are coming; the power plant closures are coming; and while no one is riding through town to announce the news, the results to America could be nearly as dire as the coming of the Redcoats. Despite millions already spent on modifications, fully functional coal-fueled power plants are being shut down—not because they are not needed but due to ideology. In fact, the Energy Information Administration predicts that electricity demand will continue to grow 0.9 percent per year until 2040 as we plug in to electricity that is becoming increasingly expensive.
One such example
is the San Juan Generating Station in New Mexico’s Four Corners area that
provides about 60 percent of New Mexico’s [electricity]. The coal-fueled plant has four generating
units—two of which are being shut down due to Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) regulations. The Albuquerque Journal reports that there
will be “rate hikes to allow PNM to recover costs associated with the changes
at San Juan.”…..PNM wants to fill the need with a new natural-gas plant at the
same site and by bringing in more nuclear power …..Environmentalists oppose
PNM’s plan and are pushing for more renewables such as wind and solar—which
will “drive costs way up.”
But the problem
with renewables isn’t just the cost or the intermittency.….To Read More….
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