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Ultimately, the costs of complying with either plan will be borne by the 2 million electric users in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and California the plant serves and who depend on the plant for reliable, affordable power. We support the state plan and are willing to make this new investment. The State of New Mexico has approved its own plan for San Juan that would further improve air quality and meet federal requirements but do so at one-tenth of the cost ($77 million versus about $750 million or more for the EPA-required technology). We are appealing this ruling because of the enormous expense of the EPA-required technology.

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* The EPA has approved its own plan to require the plant to install additional controls to improve visibility in area parks and wilderness areas. As a result of those upgrades, emissions of nitrogen dioxide fell by 44 percent, sulfur dioxide by 71 percent, particulate matter by 72 percent and mercury by 87 percent.

In fact, plant owners just recently spent $320 million to install state-of-the-art emissions controls. * The plant fully complies with the federal Clean Air Act and we are proud of its environmental performance. In fact, the plant already is prepared to meet proposed, new EPA limits on mercury emissions. * Contrary to allegations by the Sierra Club, the San Juan plant is one of the top-performing coal plants in the nation in terms of mercury removal. I work for PNM, the New Mexico electric utility that operates San Juan Generating Station on behalf of 8 other owners, and this piece contains significant factual errors about the plant: Listen to Lauren Sommer’s radio report about California’s struggle to quit coal. View California Coal Plants in a larger map Here’s a map from the Sierra Club showing where the coal plants that supply California are located. As Sommer reported in her radio piece, PNM, the parent company of the San Juan GeneratingStation, “has struggled to meet air quality standards and the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the plant to install new pollution control equipment.”.Two of the plants four units are owned in large part by California cities, towns, and agencies.The utility has applied to sell its share by 2012.ĥ. Southern California Edison, which supplies power to approximately 14 million Californians, owns 48% of this plant (786 MW).

Several California companies, primarily LA’s DWP, own rights to 96% (1,574 MW) of energy generation.

(3,500 lbs of CO2 emitted per megawatt-hour, compared with an average of 2,000 lbs.)

In 2007, the Environmental Integrity Project rated Reid Gardner Generating Plant as the nation’s dirtiest coal plant in terms of CO2 emissions.

Its contract expires in 2013, and DWR has said it will not renew the agreement.

According to the DWR, Reid Gardner supplies more than 18% of the agency’s power.

California’s Department of Water Resources owns more than 67% of this plant (183 MW).

According to the Sierra Club, the plant was, as of 2004, the fifth-largest emitter of CO2 in the nation (among power plants), and uses eight billion gallons of water from Lake Powell each year for cooling.Ģ.

The contract expires in 2019, but LADWP General Manager Ron Nichols told KQED QUEST reporter Lauren Sommer that the utility is looking into ending the contract as early as 2014.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power owns 21.2%of the plant (510 MW).

There are five out-of-state coal plants providing power to California, and according to the Sierra Club, two of them - the Four Corners Power Plant and the San Juan Generating Station, both in New Mexico - are the two top mercury-emitting power plants in the United States. But we do have several public utilities that own portions of out-of-state coal power plants, and that entitles them to lots of less-than-clean, coal-fired energy. If you’re one of the 1.4 million residents of Los Angeles who gets power from the city’s Department of Water and Power, about 40% of your electricity comes from coal.īut how’s that possible? Here in California, we don’t have much in the way of coal deposits, and no significant coal power plants. So… you might be surprised to hear that coal - that’s right, dirty ol’ coal - is still very much a part of the power supply in parts of Southern California. We also have a law that says electricity providers have to get 33% of their power from renewable sources by 2020. We have one of the most ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals in the country, and the state is certainly a hotbed for new solar and wind energy investments and installations. Here in California, you hear a lot about our “green” reputation. It’s one of two coal plants that supplies more than 40% of Los Angeles’ power.

The “invisible” fossil fuel that may be powering your lifestyle The Navajo Generating Station is coal-fired power plant in Arizona, just outside the Grand Canyon National Park.