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NEW MEXICO POWER PLANTS
UTILITY
PLANT NAME
COUNTY
MEGAWATT
ENERGY SOURCE
NOTES
Albuquerque,
City of
Southside Water
Reclamation
Plant
Bernalillo
6.6
Methane gas
from wastewater
Power is used to run the water reclamation
plant and not distributed to the city or the
electrical grid.
Delta Person
LPUt
Delta Person LLC
Bernalillo
150
Natural gas
Provides power to Albuquerque and surrounding area in times of high energy use
(e.g. summer)
Public Service Co
of NM
Reeves
Bernalillo
154
Natural gas
Located in N. Albuquerque; Provides power
to Albuquerque and surrounding area in
times of high energy use (e.g. summer); At
capacity, this plant produces enough electricity to serve about 123,000 homes.
University of New Ford Utilities
Mexico
Center
Bernalillo
1.5
Natural gas
Generates power of the University of New
Mexico and not distributed to the city or the
electrical grid.
Raton Public
Service Co
Raton
Colfax
20.7
Coal
Provides power for the city of Raton.
El Paso Electric
Co.
Rio Grande
Dona Ana
266.5
--
Located near El Paso; operates mostly on
natural gas but can also use fuel oil
New Mexico
State University
New Mexico
State University
Dona Ana
4.7
Natural gas
Generates electricity for New Mexico State
University and not distributed to the city or
the electrical grid.
Public Service Co
of NM
Afton Generating Dona Ana
Station
210
Natural gas
12 miles southwest of Las Cruces, N.M; provides power to the Western wholesale market
as well as serve as a critical backup for emergency electricity needs within New Mexico
Southwestern
Public Service Co
Carlsbad
Eddy
16.3
N/A
Out of commission
Phelps Dodge
Corp-Chino
Mines
Chino Mines
Grant
101.5
Natural gas
Private facility used to provide power to the
mine.
Phelps Dodge
Phelps Dodge
Grant
Corp-Cobre Mines Corp-Cobre Mines
2.4
Oil
Private facility used to provide power to the
mine.
Public Service Co
of NM
Lordsburg Gener- Hidalgo
ating
88
Natural gas
Located in Southwestern, NM near Lordsburg; provides power to southwestern NM
during high-use times.
Tri-State G and T
Assn Inc
Pyramid
186
Natural gas
Located 30 miles southeast of Lordsburg in
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 unavailable.
Hidalgo
UTILITY
PLANT NAME
COUNTY
MEGAWATT
ENERGY SOURCE
NOTES
Southwestern
Public Service Co
Cunningham
Lea
519.2
Natural gas
Services 352,000 customers, and about one
million people, in a 52,000-square-mile area
in southeastern New Mexico, the Panhandle
and South Plains areas of Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and southwestern Kansas.
Tri-State G and T
Assn Inc
Escalante
McKinley
257
Coal primarily
Located in Prewitt, NM northwest of grant
tried waste paper
sludge
FPL Energy New
Mexico Wind LLC
New Mexico Wind Quay
Energy Center
204
Wind
Babcock and
Brown Power Op
Partners LLC
Caprock Wind
Farm
Quay
80
Wind
Los Alamos
County
El Vado Dam
Rio Arriba
8
Water
Los Alamos
County
Abiquiu Dam
Rio Arriba
12.6
Water
Arizona Public
Service Co
Four Corners
San Juan
2269.6
Coal
Provides power to households in New
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
Gas Plant
San Juan
0
--
--
Enterprise Products Optg LP
Blanco Compressor Station
San Juan
3
Natural gas
Used to generate its own electricity to compress natural gas for delivery through pipes.
Farmington, City
of
Animas
San Juan
50.3
Natural gas
Produces electricity for Farmington, NM, San
Juan River Valley, Bloomfield, part of Rio
Arriba county NE of the city
Farmington, City
of
Navajo Dam
San Juan
30
Water
Produces electricity for Farmington, NM, San
Juan River Valley, Bloomfield, part of Rio
Arriba county NE of the city
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Located 170 miles southeast of Albuquerque 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.
One of several power plants used by Los
Alamos county to provide power to over 8500
people.
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UTILITY
PLANT NAME
COUNTY
MEGAWATT
ENERGY SOURCE
NOTES
Public Service Co
of NM
San Juan
San Juan
1848
Coal
Near Farmington, NM; PNM operates the
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 Authority: 41.8 percent
• Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association: 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
Services Co
Milagro Cogeneration Plant
San Juan
121.6
Natural gas
--
US Bureau of
Reclamation
Elephant Butte
Sierra
27.9
Water
--
TOTAL
6919.9 MW
SOURCE: http://www.powerplantjobs.com/ppj.nsf/powerplants1?openform&cat=nm&Count=500
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