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UTILITY PLANT NAME COUNTY MEGAWATT ENERGY SOURCE NOTES Albuquerque, Southside Water Bernalillo 6.6 Methane gas Power is used to run the water reclamation City of Reclamation from wastewater plant and not distributed to the city or the Plant electrical grid. Delta Person Delta Person LLC Bernalillo 150 Natural gas Provides power to Albuquerque and sur- LPUt rounding area in times of high energy use (e.g. summer) Public Service Co Reeves Bernalillo 154 Natural gas Located in N. Albuquerque; Provides power of NM to Albuquerque and surrounding area in times of high energy use (e.g. summer); At capacity, this plant produces enough elec- tricity to serve about 123,000 homes. University of New Ford Utilities Bernalillo 1.5 Natural gas Generates power of the University of New Mexico Center Mexico and not distributed to the city or the electrical grid. Raton Public Raton Colfax 20.7 Coal Provides power for the city of Raton. Service Co El Paso Electric Rio Grande Dona Ana 266.5 -- Located near El Paso; operates mostly on Co. natural gas but can also use fuel oil New Mexico New Mexico Dona Ana 4.7 Natural gas Generates electricity for New Mexico State State University State University University and not distributed to the city or the electrical grid. Public Service Co Afton Generating Dona Ana 210 Natural gas 12 miles southwest of Las Cruces, N.M; pro- of NM Station vides power to the Western wholesale market as well as serve as a critical backup for emer- gency electricity needs within New Mexico Southwestern Carlsbad Eddy 16.3 N/A Out of commission Public Service Co Phelps Dodge Chino Mines Grant 101.5 Natural gas Private facility used to provide power to the Corp-Chino mine. Mines Phelps Dodge Phelps Dodge Grant 2.4 Oil Private facility used to provide power to the Corp-Cobre Mines Corp-Cobre Mines mine. Public Service Co Lordsburg Gener- Hidalgo 88 Natural gas Located in Southwestern, NM near Lords- of NM ating burg; provides power to southwestern NM during high-use times. Tri-State G and T Pyramid Hidalgo 186 Natural gas Located 30 miles southeast of Lordsburg in Assn Inc southwestern New Mexico; Pyramid serves Tri-State’s southern system loads and provides backup generation when the G&T’s baseload, coal-fired Escalante Generating Station in northern New Mexico is unavail- able. UTILITY PLANT NAME COUNTY MEGAWATT ENERGY SOURCE NOTES Southwestern Cunningham Lea 519.2 Natural gas Services 352,000 customers, and about one Public Service Co million people, in a 52,000-square-mile area in southeastern New Mexico, the Panhandle and South Plains areas of Texas, the Okla- homa Panhandle, and southwestern Kansas. Tri-State G and T Escalante McKinley 257 Coal primarily Located in Prewitt, NM northwest of grant Assn Inc tried waste paper sludge FPL Energy New New Mexico Wind Quay 204 Wind Located 170 miles southeast of Albuquer- Mexico Wind LLC Energy Center que and 20 miles northeast of Fort Sumner. The facility can produce enough electricity to power 94,000 average-sized New Mexico homes. Florida-based FPL Energy owns and manages the facility, while PNM purchases all of its output to be sent to customers who subscribe to the New Mexico Sky Blue program from PNM who wish to have their electricity from wind power. Babcock and Caprock Wind Quay 80 Wind Brown Power Op Farm Partners LLC Los Alamos El Vado Dam Rio Arriba 8 Water One of several power plants used by Los County Alamos county to provide power to over 8500 people. Los Alamos Abiquiu Dam Rio Arriba 12.6 Water County Arizona Public Four Corners San Juan 2269.6 Coal Provides power to households in New Service Co Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas. Units 1, 2 and 3 are owned by Arizona Public Service Units 4 and 5 are owned by: •Southern California Edison: 48 percent •Arizona Public Service: 15 percent •El Paso Electric: 7 percent •PNM: 13 percent •Salt River Project: 10 percent •Tucson Electric Power: 7 percent Conoco Inc San Juan Basin San Juan 0 -- -- Gas Plant Enterprise Prod- Blanco Compres- San Juan 3 Natural gas Used to generate its own electricity to com- ucts Optg LP sor Station press natural gas for delivery through pipes. Farmington, City Animas San Juan 50.3 Natural gas Produces electricity for Farmington, NM, San of Juan River Valley, Bloomfield, part of Rio Arriba county NE of the city Farmington, City Navajo Dam San Juan 30 Water Produces electricity for Farmington, NM, San of Juan River Valley, Bloomfield, part of Rio Arriba county NE of the city

©2012, Dreaming New Mexico, dreamingnewmexico.org NM Power Plants – Page 2 UTILITY PLANT NAME COUNTY MEGAWATT ENERGY SOURCE NOTES Public Service Co San Juan San Juan 1848 Coal Near Farmington, NM; PNM operates the of NM plant on behalf of the other owners. Units 1 and 2 • PNM: 50 percent • Tucson Electric Power: 50 percent Unit 3 • PNM: 50 percent • Southern California Public Power Author- ity: 41.8 percent • Tri-State Generation and Transmission As- sociation: 8.2 percent Unit 4 • PNM: 38.5 percent • MSR Public Power Agency: 28.8 percent • City of Anaheim, Calif.: 10 percent • City of Farmington: 8.5 percent • Los Alamos County: 7.2 percent • Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems: 7 percent

Williams Field Milagro Cogen- San Juan 121.6 Natural gas -- Services Co eration Plant US Bureau of Elephant Butte Sierra 27.9 Water -- Reclamation

TOTAL 6919.9 MW

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