Last (?) Update On The Navajo Generating Station -- September 21, 2019

Today, the "Navajo Page" search on the blog, just some of the hits.

• travel book, review, unimportant, September 2, 2018
• plant could close they year if action not taken to prevent that, June 22, 2017
• appeal to Trump to save the station, February 17, 2017
• update on the plant, May 6, 2015
• Navajo Nation loses another war to the White Man, July 28, 2014

So, where do we stand on this generation station? From a google search today:

From wiki:

in 2017, the utility operators of the power station voted to close the facility when the lease expires in 2019.  In March 2019, the Navajo Nation ended efforts to buy the plant and continue running it after the lease expires.

The reason they ended the efforts to save the plant was because the environmental requirements were impossible to meet.

I posted all that because a reader told me he just returned from visiting the area and took a boat tour of Lake Powell. He mentioned that the water level is up 53 feet from April, 2019 (this year) to September 9, 2019 (this year) --- summer months, note. The reader mentioned that they were told that the Navajo (Page) Generating Station generated (note the past tense) more than twice the electricity than the Glenn Powell Dam and the Hoover Dam.

Combined.

It will be interesting to see utility costs over the next five years for Nevada, Arizona, and California.