Thank you, chris. Thank you, christine. You have a good voice. Lets move on. Let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. Im pleased to see so many governors here and we put a Great Program playing. Im delighted we could share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with top admin haitian officials including secretary of labor alexander acosta, secretary of transportation elaine chao, u. S. Forest service chief tony tooke and although he couldnt stay for todays activities we visited this one of the secretary of agriculture sonny perdue. We will hear two other keynote speakers, Michael Bidwell president of the Arizona Cardinals and also john ratzenberger. Most of you know john has the sandisk with cleveland for the Television Series cheers or you might know him as one of the voices of the characters in every pixar movie ever made. John also has a passion for American Workers and american industry on enjoy hearing him speak about that. We will touch on one of t
Statement. First, for carl to respond. So you have noted that natural gas and leads to the displacement of coal in the power sector has what assumptions have you made about natural gas Going Forward the next 15 years, and what are the implications of that assumption for sailing up renewables and methane . We dont assume changes from those trajectories. Clearly, the four Building Blocks between the power plant will cause a mixture of both increases in natural gas use along with renewables in Energy Efficiency. Most of our projections assume that the state consistent with epas projections that the states will take advantage of all four Building Blocks. So we dont have we dont have explicit renewable additions beyond that in our coram business pathway. Rather the Clean Power Plant projections show significant increase in renewables and no disruptions or price pressure on the natural gas sector. Could i add something on this point, with respect to natural gas . I think one of the stories a
Payson will get at least a little C.C. Cragin Reservoir water this year and the East Verde River will get a six-month reprieve before it dwindles toward running dry.
The news emerged last week from a meeting on how to save the reservoir by thinning the 64,000-acre watershed.
The dry winter left the 15,000-acre-foot reservoir just 29% full at the end of the spring runoff period, leading the Salt River Project to hold off pumping water out to deliver to Payson and release into the East Verde.
However, SRP started the pumps on May 1 and will continue moving water for about six weeks, perhaps enough to keep the East Verde from drying up before the onset of the monsoon in July. The National Weather Service predicts a hot, dry May and June, but perhaps a blessedly average monsoon this year. The fire season is already well underway, with evacuations already ordered in the face of at least two wildfires in the state.