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Jun 15, 2020

Reader View: Think big on energy, New Mexico

Posted: Friday, January 16, 2015 9:00 pm | Updated: 11:47 pm, Fri Jan 16, 2015. By Peggy O’Mara | 1 comment As the Public Regulation...

Jun 15, 2020

N.M. Supreme Court to hear new evidence by group opposing PNM’s coal energy plan

New evidence on the relationship between coal power generation and climate change will be admitted in a state Supreme Court case...

Jun 15, 2020

NM high court accepts climate change brief in San Juan case

The New Mexico Supreme Court has accepted a brief on climate change filed by 38 organizations, the latest pivot in the labyrinthine San...

Jun 15, 2020

PNM Scraps $100M Gas Plant

PNM scraps $100M gas plant plan ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state’s largest electric utility, has...

Jun 15, 2020

Update on SB47 and Next Steps for a Just Transition

We are so grateful to all of you who stepped up to stop Senate Bill 47 in the Conservation Committee on Saturday. Your support in big and...

Jun 15, 2020

Utilities Seek to Extend Last Gasps From Arizona, New Mexico Coal Plants

Written by Abigail Sawyer of California Energy Markets Interested parties are doubling down on efforts to extend the lives of two aging...

Jun 15, 2020

NM's PRC to Decide $150 Million Coal Plant Reimbursement

January 9, 2018 - Roz Brown, Public News Service (NM) Play Audio in Browser Window New Mexico's Public Regulatory Commission is scheduled...

Jun 15, 2020

PRC Accepts PNM request to recoup $4.7 million

By Steve Terrell | The New Mexican Jan 17, 2018 Updated 14 hrs ago The state Public Regulation Commission voted 3-2 Wednesday to allow...

Jun 15, 2020

NEE Appeals PRC's Reversal on Four Corners Imprudence

New Energy Economy files its appeal in the New Mexico Supreme Court against the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission for approving...

Jun 15, 2020

New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission in Retrograde

by FRANCES MADESON In the airless fourth floor hearing room where the body charged with regulating public utilities operating in New...

Jun 15, 2020

PRC orders PNM to respond to inquiries about silo structure failure

The below article is by Hannah Grover of The Farmington Daily Times PNM must answer questions about March silo collapse AZTEC — The New...

Jun 15, 2020

San Juan Unit 1 Explosion

In March the San Juan Unit caught on fire and it was a disaster

Jun 15, 2020

PNM Files their plan for 3 new gas plants

PNM continues to insist on investing in more fossil fuels despite the cost-savings renewables would bring to ratepayers.

Apr 1, 2020

San Juan Generating Station ABANDONED

Today the NM Public Regulation Commission voted 5-0 to approve abandonment of PNM's ratepayers' share in the San Juan Generating...