It’s been eight years since NASA’s announcement that they identified a methane hotspot the size of Delaware over the San Juan Basin, and a new study by researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory fingerprints some of the sources. This study was published in the journal Geophysical Research: Atmosphere in September and, according to the lab, […]
While the San Juan Generating Station has closed, hopes of someday bringing back the coal jobs and the power plant remain. Enchant Energy and the City of Farmington are pushing forward with efforts to transform the shuttered facility into the largest carbon capture project in the world. Negotiations to transfer the ownership of the power […]
In the more than four decades he worked at the San Juan Generating Station, Allen Palmer saw units three and four come online. Then he watched unit three close in 2017 and now, as he prepares to retire, he is watching unit four close down. He sat in the control room on Wednesday as the […]