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Event Details
CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees meets in a special meeting to vote on the future of San Antonio’s energy generation. We expect two votes: One
Event Details
CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees meets in a special meeting to vote on the future of San Antonio’s energy generation. We expect two votes: One on the early retirement of our last remaining coal plant: two-unit 1,400MW JK Spruce; and a second on an energy generation plan to guide the utility’s generation into the 2040s.
The majority of members of CPS’s de-facto generation committee has urged replacing Spruce with a larger investment in new gas infrastructure, expected to operate past 2060. The Portfolio 2 recommendation is said to meet the utility’s commitment to roughly 40-percent carbon reductions by 2030, but swings wide of goals for 2040 and 2050.
Here’s our assessment, based upon materials provided to CPS Energy by a third-party consultant:
Below is from the January 6, 2022, CPS press release announcing the special meeting:
CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees is expected to vote on how the utility will power Greater San Antonio through 2030 at a special Board meeting on Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1 p.m. Considering exponential community growth requiring an additional 115 megawatts per year and a commitment to support the City of San Antonio’s goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the Board may approve one of nine power generation options.
The Board’s decision will follow the CPS Energy Rate Advisory Committee’s (RAC) top selection among the nine options at its December 15, 2022 meeting. The RAC recommended Portfolio 2, which includes a combination of gas, solar, wind and energy storage.
At the direction of the Board, the RAC spent the last year on an educational and fact-finding journey reviewing the utility’s current power generation resources and future options in meetings with CPS Energy and consultants. CPS Energy also held a series of community engagement efforts, among which included open houses, a virtual town hall and customer survey.
LIVESTREAM: Catch meetings online here.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Requests to make public comments must be received the week before the meeting (ie. Wedesday to Friday). Details at the CPS Energy Public Comment FAQ page.
SEE: Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page for more about the utility.
Visit Deceleration’s Happening Events Calendar.
Time
(Monday) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm(GMT-06:00) View in my time
Location
CPS Energy Headquarters
500 McCullough Avenue
Event Details
CPS Energy is a utility in transition. Here’s the pathway, from a December 19, 2022, meeting
Event Details
CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees meet the last Monday of every month. Deceleration will maintain this page with the current agendas and updates. For more about the City-owned electric and gas utility, see Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page.
January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023, Agenda (PDF)
January 23, 2023
Special Meeting called meeting to vote on the future of the JK Spruce coal plant and future energy generation. Details Here.
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2022, Agenda (PDF)
On Monday, board members received the future energy generation recommendation from the Rate Advisory Committee. RAC members were strongly divided on their recommendation: 13 members recommending a pathway supposed to hit our 2030 carbon-reductions target (but failing 2040 and 2050) by swapping out coal for gas; seven members voted instead for plans much stronger on renewable energy.
BACKGROUND: Read Deceleration’s report:
“CPS Energy’s Rate Committee Readies Recommendation to Swap Out Coal for Gas.”
LIVESTREAM: Catch meetings online here.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Requests to make public comments must be received the week before the meeting (ie. Wedesday to Friday). Details at the CPS Energy Public Comment FAQ page.
SEE: Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page for more about the utility.
Visit Deceleration’s Happening Events Calendar.
Time
(Monday) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm(GMT-06:00) View in my time
Location
CPS Energy Headquarters
500 McCullough Avenue
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
february 27, 2023 1:00 pmmarch 27, 2023 1:00 pm
february
Event Details
CPS Energy is a utility in transition. Here’s the pathway, from a December 19, 2022, meeting
Event Details
CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees meet the last Monday of every month. Deceleration will maintain this page with the current agendas and updates. For more about the City-owned electric and gas utility, see Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page.
January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023, Agenda (PDF)
January 23, 2023
Special Meeting called meeting to vote on the future of the JK Spruce coal plant and future energy generation. Details Here.
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2022, Agenda (PDF)
On Monday, board members received the future energy generation recommendation from the Rate Advisory Committee. RAC members were strongly divided on their recommendation: 13 members recommending a pathway supposed to hit our 2030 carbon-reductions target (but failing 2040 and 2050) by swapping out coal for gas; seven members voted instead for plans much stronger on renewable energy.
BACKGROUND: Read Deceleration’s report:
“CPS Energy’s Rate Committee Readies Recommendation to Swap Out Coal for Gas.”
LIVESTREAM: Catch meetings online here.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Requests to make public comments must be received the week before the meeting (ie. Wedesday to Friday). Details at the CPS Energy Public Comment FAQ page.
SEE: Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page for more about the utility.
Visit Deceleration’s Happening Events Calendar.
Time
(Monday) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm(GMT-06:00) View in my time
Location
CPS Energy Headquarters
500 McCullough Avenue
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
march 27, 2023 1:00 pm
march
Event Details
CPS Energy is a utility in transition. Here’s the pathway, from a December 19, 2022, meeting
Event Details
CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees meet the last Monday of every month. Deceleration will maintain this page with the current agendas and updates. For more about the City-owned electric and gas utility, see Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page.
January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023, Agenda (PDF)
January 23, 2023
Special Meeting called meeting to vote on the future of the JK Spruce coal plant and future energy generation. Details Here.
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2022, Agenda (PDF)
On Monday, board members received the future energy generation recommendation from the Rate Advisory Committee. RAC members were strongly divided on their recommendation: 13 members recommending a pathway supposed to hit our 2030 carbon-reductions target (but failing 2040 and 2050) by swapping out coal for gas; seven members voted instead for plans much stronger on renewable energy.
BACKGROUND: Read Deceleration’s report:
“CPS Energy’s Rate Committee Readies Recommendation to Swap Out Coal for Gas.”
LIVESTREAM: Catch meetings online here.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Requests to make public comments must be received the week before the meeting (ie. Wedesday to Friday). Details at the CPS Energy Public Comment FAQ page.
SEE: Deceleration’s CPS Energy Resource Page for more about the utility.
Visit Deceleration’s Happening Events Calendar.
Time
(Monday) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm(GMT-05:00) View in my time
Location
CPS Energy Headquarters
500 McCullough Avenue