Published

1 year ago

December 24, 2024

Alice Rush

PNM has filed an application with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC) for new energy resources to be added by summer 2028.

The proposed resource portfolio extends existing resources and adds 430 MW of new solar and battery storage to meet PNM’s forecasted peak load requirements in 2028.

The filing requests approval for:

extension of a Valencia PPA for 167 MW through 2039, as the current agreement expires in 2028
addition of 300 MW capacity through Energy Storage Agreements for two 150 MW battery stand-alone storage facilities
addition of a 100 MW solar and 30 MW battery storage facility, with an option for an additional 20 MW of battery storage, to be owned and operated by PNM

The proposed placement of the 130 MW facility is in New Mexico’s Central Consolidated School District, where the San Juan Generating Station was retired in 2022.

The filing is subject to approval by the NMPRC and PNM has requested approval of the resources within nine months.

PNM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TXNM Energy.

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Renewable Energy

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Published

18 hours ago

March 22, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.

Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Renewable Energy

We’re Running Out of Time

Published

2 days ago

March 20, 2026

Alice Rush

There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:

• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)

• Environmental collapse.

• Malicious use of AI.

• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.

• Nuclear war.

Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.