Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant

Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant

Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”By Jerry Redfern, Capital & MainThis story was originally published by Capital & Main.

Utility asks New Mexico for ‘zero emission’ status for gas-fired power plant

Aerial view of new oil and gas well operations in New Mexico near the Texas border in June. (Photo by Jerry Redfern. Aerial support provided by LightHawk)The Southwestern Public Service Company has asked the state of New Mexico to grant exceptions to the state’s Energy Transition Act for two proposed gas-fired power plants, including one exception that would see approximately one-third of the energy produced at one plant qualify as a “zero-carbo…