San Juan Generating Station

Officials sitting on the Radioactive & Hazardous Materials interim committee received an update Thursday on how the state plans to clean-up the decommissioned San Juan Generating Station.

Los Alamos County has approved an agreement for a large, 170 MW solar power farm in the Four Corners Region that will double the amount of clean energy dumped into the Los Alamos Power Pool – an agreement that divides power between Los Alamos National Laboratory and the rest of the county.

The state’s just transition plans promised by the Energy Transition Act haven’t panned out for many workers.

The New Mexico Legislature made changes this year to the state’s Energy Transition Act in an effort to speed up funding and job training opportunities for former employees of the San Juan Generating Station and coal mine in Farmington.Some of the $20 million available has begun rolling out this month and officials say they’re making plans to get the rest out as quickly as possible.

A law passed in the legislative session extends the timeline of a 2019 plan to assist people, many from the Navajo Nation, laid off when the San Juan Generating Station closed.

One area's struggles show how difficult it is, in reality, to move on from coal.

PNM's request for a rate hike is entangled with a case sitting in the state Supreme Court over when and how PNM should lower customer bills after shutting down a coal-fired power station earlier this year.

At a community meeting meeting about a dozen projects seeking support were presented, ranging from a multi-million dollar green energy storage company to a community farming project, led by Duane "Chili" Yazzie from Shiprock who said young people have been returning to traditional farming on the Navajo Nation as jobs in the energy industry have dried up.

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