If PNM runs all plants at maximum capacity (up to the percentage that PNM owns - some are shared), then the two coal plants produce around 900 megawatts while the rest of the plants (nuclear, wind, natural gas) produce 1100 megawatts. That would only happen at the hottest day of summer, however. The natural gas plants are peakers with some alternating to the spot market - that's up to 576 megawatts. One major reason New Mexico doesn't use more of its own natural gas in power plants is that there are no natural gas processing plants in the state - all of our gas is collected and piped to Texas for processing. That's why we had the natural gas problem a few winters ago - the plants in west Texas lost power and GasCo wasn't getting any gas.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Jochen - > > Have you bought yours yet? In Colorado, the tax incentives a few years ago > created huge effective discounts... something like 40% of the vehicle cost > was recovered in tax breaks. > > I'm a member of a local EV enthusiasts group and there definitely isn't one > in that crowd... there IS a Nissan Leaf and a whole host of DIY conversions, > but nobody with the funding for something like the Tesla. One of the guys > has a DeLorean he plans to convert. Me I'm a VW Cabriolet (nod to German > Engineering) kinda guy. > > If our major source of electricity is coal, it is likely from the Kaipowaritz > plant in NW AZ... they have been digging coal and sluicing it 100 miles from > the middle of the Navajo Rez for 40 years or more... a (Navajo) friend of > mine was studying the problems with the aquifer that came with that sluicing > 30 years ago while I was helping with the investigation of the corruption in > the McDonald administration on the Rez. Nothing changes. > > We have a lot of natural gas in NM, but apparently we don't have the power > plants? We *are* a small state with a limited heating as well as cooling > season (even our deserts have late start/early end summers and our mountains > warm days in spring and autumn). > > - Steve >> Tesla Motors has a nice map which state uses what kind of energy, California >> depends mostly on Gas, while New Mexico uses mostly Coal. Anyone driving a >> Tesla Model S in Santa Fe already? >> >> http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#electricity >> >> -J. >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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