Environmentalists want CPS Energy to shutter its coal-burning plant immediately, but the utility says it will take until 2030 to get it done.
plan in 2019, which aims to add up to 900 megawatts of solar, 50 megawatts of energy storage and 500 megawatts of “firming capacity” — likely natural gas — to the utility’s power generation mix over the next 20 years.In addition to purchasing renewable power, CPS Energy has said it will need to invest in new technologies like battery storage that would allow it to store and use megawatts generated by solar and wind power when the sun isn’t out or the wind is not blowing.
CPS Energy needs to back up its claims with transparent data, Belmares said: “I expect to see models first before they say, ‘This is too expensive.'” “It’s a billion dollars worth of equipment that we went out and sold bonds for that our bondholders expect us to use,” he said. “So there’s no just parking it with no impact.”
But there will be costs no matter what, Belmares said. Customers deserve to see budget models to understand what those costs are — and from there, the decision should be up to the community, she said. “What we don’t want to do is close things down prematurely and not be able to transition those people to other [areas] that we’re going to need them,” said Benny Etheridge, the utility’s executive vice president of energy supply, during a recent Rate Advisory Committee meeting. “It’s very difficult to get a skilled workforce in this area capable of doing what they do in a timely manner.”
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