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PNM Touts Upgrades At San Juan By James Montelone The Daily Times WATERFLOW- Operators of the San Juan Generating Station opened the power plant for community leaders this week to highlight newly completed environmental-protection equipment renovations. PNM and other plant co-owners have invested $330 million at the 1,800-megawatt coal-fired power plant, 15 miles west of Farmington, to dramatically reduce emissions. The upgrade was agreed upon as a settlement to a 2002 lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and Grand Canyon Trust following reports of air quality violations at San Juan, which generates almost 60 percent of PNM's electricity in New Mexico. PNM and other owners also paid nearly $7 million in fines. The renovations are anticipated to reduce plant emission of sulfur dioxide and particulate ash by an additional 50 percent, nitrous oxide emissions by 30 percent and retain more than 90 percent of mercury, said Jim McNicol, San Juan Generating Station plant manager. Farmington Mayor Bill Standley commended the upgrades and the power plant's daily operations, noting an American Lung Association study ranking Farmington's air quality among the nation's 10 best. "Some say the power plants are causing the pollution," Standley said. "They just haven't been exposed to the operation that you have here (even) before you did the upgrades." The Sierra Club praised the project completion, but said improvements only were made because of the lawsuit. Spokesman Rob Smith noted some improvements, such as mercury protections, went beyond what PNM was required to through the court action. Albuquerque Journal Thursday July 2, 2009

Wednesday June 17, 2009 06:25 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#contact

Tuesday June 16, 2009 19:14 U.S. Could Have 10% Renewable Energy by 2020 - If Policy, Money Line Up comment. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: automail@pnm.com To: bpayne37@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:39:59 AM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: Thank you for contacting PNM Thank you for contacting PNM. You will receive a response from us within one business day. The e-mail you sent to us can be reviewed below. YOUR MESSAGE TO PNM Name: bill payne Phone: 505-292-7037 Message: Thanks http://seekingalpha.com/article/143355-u-s-could-have-10-renewable-energy-by-2020-if-policy-money-line-up?source=email#comment-548840 ******** Please do not reply to this e-mail, which is generated automatically. The 'From' address in this e-mail does not receive mail. However, your e-mail has been received by PNM and you will receive a response. You can also contact PNM at 241-2700 during business hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.. If you are reporting an emergency - for examples, a gas leak or an electricity line down - please call 246-5700 or (800) 687-7854. You can report emergencies to that number 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ******** We believe that PNM may have the data from its Algodones solar arrray to shed light on whether Fast Neuton's solar electric assertions are correct or not. Brown's email read Tuesday June 16, 2009 ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Don Brown" To: bpayne37@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:53:11 PM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: FW: Rebates Bill, got your request for answer to the following questions. I have an inquiry into our generation folks and will be in touch. Thanks. db 1 What is the purpose of the PNM Algodones solar facility? 2 Is the PNM Algodones solar facility connected to the grid? 3 What is the CAPACITY FACTOR of the PNM Algodones solar facility by month from September 2007 through March 2009? Please provide a plot similar to the ITRON SGIP Figure 3-1. 4 How many kWh [kilowatt HOURS] of electricity per month from September 2007 through March 2009 does the PNM Algodones solar facility produce? Table presentation please. 5 What is the average peak output [kW] of the PNM Algodones solar facility for each hour [24] for each month of the year from September 2007 through March 2009? Table presentation please. -----Original Message----- From: James, Sharon Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:54 PM To: Brown, Don Subject: FW: Rebates Hello Don - This email came through our rebate website. Thanks. Sharon -----Original Message----- From: bpayne37@comcast.net [mailto:bpayne37@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:04 PM To: van Moorsel, Emma; James, Sharon Subject: Rebates Name: bill payne Phone: 505-292-7037 Message: Please help us to get Don Brown to reply to litigimate questions about PNM Algodones solar array. These answers may be important because of Solar Array is the fourth solar manufacturing venture planned, under construction or operating in New Mexico, joining Schott Solar, Advent Solar and Signet Solar. http://www.prosefights.org/pnmsolar/pnmsolar.htm#schottnew Thanks. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/altreport/altreport.htm#offpeak China Becomes Global Green Leader with Massive Solar Projects comment. We are on a first name basis with Greg Nelson as a result of attending the PNM electric irp. This was conducted over a period of about a year with 17 essential sessions. A 229 page final report was submitted to New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. We are also stockholders in PNM. Let's ask Nelson to comment on fast neutron Santa Fe, NM January 12, 2009 From actual experience, wind farms produce 1.2 watts per square meter. Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic methods capture 5 to 6 watts per square meter. There is no economy of size in either technology. Dividing the watts you need by those values gives the land area in square meters needed to produce the juice. The numbers are astronomical http://www.topix.net/forum/source/santa-fe-new-mexican/T0QVJ5UD3R25C8HRL for stockholders and investors reasons. http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/eclipse/eclipse.htm#auctionblock Lots of money to be made in altenergy in New Mexico. 17.9.572.6 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this rule is to implement the Renewable Energy Act, NMSA 1978 Section 62-16-1, et seq., and to bring significant economic development and environmental benefits to New Mexico. [17.9.572.6 NMAC - Rp, 17.9.572.6 NMAC, 8-30-07] The REA and Rule 572 established an RPS applicable to all investor owned electric utilities in New Mexico. In 2006, the RPS will be 5% of retail sales in kWh’s, reaching 10% by the year 2011. Recent legislative changes to the REA (SB418, signed March 5, 2007 by Governor Bill Richardson) have increased the RPS percentages and extended the time lines - IOU’s now must have in their portfolio as a percentage of total retail sales to New Mexico customers, renewable energy of no less than 15% (by 2015) and 20% (by 2020). Resource Diversity and the RPS In addition to the RPS, Rule 572 requires that IOU’s must offer a voluntary renewable energy program to their customers. In addition to and within the total portfolio percentage requirements, utilities must design their public utility procurement plans to achieve a fully diversified renewable energy portfolio no later than January 1, 2011, as follows: Diversity requirements for IOU’s as % of total RPS requirement: No less than 20% Wind No less than 20% Solar No less than 10% Other technologies No less than 1.5% Distributed Generation (2011-2014) and 3% Distributed Generation by 2015 Above goals may be physically impossible if Fast Neutron's statements are correct. Nonetheless, there is a lot of money to be made building the faciltities anyway. http://www.prosefights.org/pnmsolar/pnmsolar.htm#solartower

Monday June 1, 2009 10:03 PNM forecaster Steve Martin alerted us about new construction as the principal factor in increased electric load. See FOIL 1. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#mayskies

Save energy for new construction?

Monday May 11, 2009 06:33 Porter Stansberry: Sea Change in U.S. Natural Gas Industry comment. First Solar: What This Analyst Missed comment. Cramer's Lightning Round - First Solar's Day in the Sun (5/8/09) comment. Peabody Highlights Coal's Solid 2008 comment. Biofuels: No There, There. Government Should Focus on Other Alternatives comment. Coal Stocks: Burning It Up comment. http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx?animate=true Siemens To Build Wind Turbine Plant In Kansas comment. PNM small pv program. Don Brown has not reponded to my questions or work proposal. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#solararray Could you please help me get responses? Thanks. bill ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: automail@pnm.com To: bpayne37@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 1:15:37 PM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: Thank you for contacting PNM Thank you for contacting PNM. You will receive a response from us within two business days. The e-mail you sent to us can be reviewed below. YOUR MESSAGE TO PNM Name: bill payne Phone: 292-7037 Message: Don Brown has not reponded to my questions or work proposal. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#solararray Could you please help me get responses? Thanks. bill ******** Please do not reply to this e-mail, which is generated automatically. The 'From' address in this e-mail does not receive mail. However, your e-mail has been received by PNM and you will receive a response. You can also contact PNM at 241-2700 during business hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.. If you are reporting an emergency - for examples, a gas leak or an electricity line down - please call 246-5700 or (800) 687-7854. You can report emergencies to that number 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ******** ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: bpayne37@comcast.net To: "Nancy L Mitchell" Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 2:46:29 PM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: Re: Miller's charges Nancy, Nice to talk to you this morning. Thanks for all your work to get matters arranged. I am increasingly suspicious about altenergy schemes. The Plug In Vehicle Scam comment. Listen up America – It's a scam! The emperor has no clothes! There is no such thing as a cost-effective electric vehicle that will carry a family of four at highway speeds. But the cautionary if not downright conservative analysis from sources as diverse and credible as the Department of Energy, the White House and Carnegie Mellon University somehow manages to get lost in a media sideshow that focuses on scientific breakthroughs that promise a 5-minute recharge time for batteries nobody can afford to buy. Even Whitman schemes. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/whitman59/whitman59.htm#carson So we're using Internet to have fun investigating. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#townhall It's so painful to think that when we were graduated in 1959, the 50 year reunion class was 1909. They were fossils. Hope to see you at the reunion despite dangers of swine flu, economic depression, WWIII, prison, advancing age, etc. http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/theinvestigation/theinvestigation.htm#reedemail bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy L Mitchell" mitchenl@whitman.edu To: "bill payne" payne37@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 9:36:32 AM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: Miller's charges Bill, I miscalculated when I told you $169-- it will be $199 (I can't add!). See link to a copy of the order at: xxxxx Nancy Mitchell Associate Director of Alumni Whitman College 219 Marcus Street Walla Walla WA 99362 509-527-5952 509-527-5046 fax 800-835-9448 ext. 1 mitchenl@whitman.edu Miller was a Harper-Row book salesman who was largely responsible for signing of Machine, Assembly, and Systems for the IBM 360. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#townhall

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Scott Barker, ABEC" sbarker@americaspowerarmy.org To: bpayne37@comcast.net Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 11:16:05 AM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: From America's Power: Come to NM Energy Economy Town Hall Dear William: You're invited to a Town Hall meeting in Albuquerque on May 14-16 to discuss "Growing New Mexico's Energy Economy." The Town Hall will be held at the Convention Center. Featured invited speakers include: Lt. Governor Diane Denish Joanna Prukop, Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Energy, Minerals and National Resources Department Thomas Bowles, Chief Science Officer, Office of the Governor Discussions will span conventional energy sources to renewables and developing a vision for the New Mexico energy economy. For more information, including registration, click here. Among the topics to be discussed is the role of coal in the energy economy of the future. Some key facts: 80 percent of New Mexico's electricity is generated from coal. New Mexico is an exporter of coal to other states. The state's three coal fueled electricity generating plants employ 800 people, with another 1,300 employed in coal mines. By 2015, coal generation is projected to increase New Mexico's economic output by $14.4 billion, while creating $5.5 billion in personal income. Over the past 35 years, America's coal-based electricity providers have invested more than $50 billion in technologies to reduce emissions. This has resulted in coal plants built today being 77 percent cleaner than those built in 1970. New Mexico could also play a prominent role in the development of a newer clean coal technology – carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). CCS takes carbon dioxide from power plants and stores it underground in deep saline formations. According to the experts, including New Mexico Tech., the state's natural geology makes it ideal for carbon sequestration, a factor that could drive economic opportunities for New Mexico. So, as you can see, there's a lot to discuss! I hope you can attend the Town Hall. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Scott Barker On behalf of America's Power Army Albuquerque Journal Wednesday May 6, 2009 Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese has a field trip description of a "baghouse." May 5, 4:26 PM EDT Public Service Company of New Mexico has paid the state of New Mexico $6.9 million to settle air quality violations that occurred earlier in the decade at the San Juan Generating Station in northwestern New Mexico. ... However, Smith said the Sierra Club was disappointed the settlement payment went to the general fund rather than to alternative energy projects. "We had hoped that money that was simply a fine to acknowledge past pollution would be directed into something that would create a cleaner energy future," he said. "Coal is still dirty even if you burn it with these modern controls," Smith said. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Jerri Ann Henry, America's Power Army" jhenry@americaspowerarmy.org To: bpayne37@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 2:20:28 PM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: From mine to plug: America's Power tour explains coal-generated electricity process Dear William: We have just launched a brand new tour showing the coal-generated electricity process from mine to plug and would love for you to check the video out. A lot of people don't realize just how much of America's electricity comes from coal. And even more important, a lot of people don't know how the electricity powering your computer screen right now goes from a lump of coal in the ground to affordable American energy. The Factuality Tour 2009 will answer these questions and show you some things you don't get to see everyday. Steve Gates, senior communications director of ACCCE, went on a cross-country tour to show where coal comes from and how it is turned into electricity. He visited the country's largest coal mine, toured America's complex rail system, and saw some of the most technologically advanced power plants. The first stop was Arch Coal's Black Thunder Surface mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. You can check out Steve's blog posts, a video tour of the world's largest dragline excavator, hear from Black Thunder workers about how important safety, the environment and land reclamation are to them. Don't forget to follow our activities on Twitter or become a fan on facebook. You can sign up for updates on the tour website and stay informed about the latest stops on Factuality Tour 2009. Thanks, Jerri Ann Henry On behalf of America's Power Army -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- America's Power Army · PO Box 1638 · Alexandria, VA 22314 · Tel: 1-877-358-6699 | Fax: 1-866-605-ABEC ©2009 America's Power Army Coal has the BTUs IN. We question There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions C P Steinmetz whether altenergy has the BTUs IN. fast neutron Santa Fe, NM January 12, 2009 From actual experience, wind farms produce 1.2 watts per square meter. Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic methods capture 5 to 6 watts per square meter. There is no economy of size in either technology. Dividing the watts you need by those values gives the land area in square meters needed to produce the juice. The numbers are astronomical http://www.topix.net/forum/source/santa-fe-new-mexican/T0QVJ5UD3R25C8HRL

Tuesday May 5, 2009 07:04 Evergreen Solar's Long Term Outlook comment. Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News comment. Another Look at Geothermal Energy comment. Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Outperforms Cool comment. Forget Biofuels, Future Energy Architecture Will Have Solar at Its Core comment. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#solarapril2009

http://www.pnm.com/solar/ Albuquerque Journal Sunday May 3, 2009. Trever's statement "Hey, I'm not going to decrease!" may be wrong for a number of reasons?

Tuesday April 28, 2009 08:50 The Plug In Vehicle Scam comment. Listen up America – It's a scam! The emperor has no clothes! There is no such thing as a cost-effective electric vehicle that will carry a family of four at highway speeds. But the cautionary if not downright conservative analysis from sources as diverse and credible as the Department of Energy, the White House and Carnegie Mellon University somehow manages to get lost in a media sideshow that focuses on scientific breakthroughs that promise a 5-minute recharge time for batteries nobody can afford to buy. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: bpayne37@comcast.net To: allison@renewcomm.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:50:09 AM GMT -08:00 Tijuana / Baja California Subject: With a power capacity of 20 megawatts, Ms Lenthall http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-27-2009/0005013777&EDATE= Try to get these answers the for new PS20 solar power tower plant located at the Solucar Platform 3 What is the CAPACITY FACTOR of the PS20 solar power tower plant facility by month from September 2007 through March 2009? Please provide a plot similar to the ITRON SGIP Figure 3-1. 4 How many kWh [kilowatt HOURS] of electricity per month from ? through ? does the PS20 solar power tower plant produce? Table presentation please. 5 What is the average peak output [kW] of the PS20 solar power tower plant for each hour [24] for each month of the year from ? through ? ? Table presentation please. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#solararray regards bill PS20 consists of a solar field made up of 1,255 mirrored heliostats designed by Abengoa Solar. Each heliostat, with a surface area of 1,291 square feet, reflects the solar radiation it receives onto the receiver, located on the top of a 531 feet-high tower, producing steam which is converted into electricity generation by a turbine. Don Brown has not yet responded. Nonresponse must be addressed after April 28, 2009. But he is also seeking increases in direct federal investment in medical and energy research, and he would make permanent what has been a sporadic research and experimentation tax credit offered to companies that push beyond the quest for quarterly profits to pursue breakthroughs. Does lawyer Obama understand the laws of thermodynamics and EROEI? Thoughts on the Current Restructuring of Global Oil Demand comment. Solar Panels and Parking Lots: An Extraordinary Dual Use comment. Though Newer Sources of Power Are Being Built, Coal Remains a Cheap BTU comment. Pretty Good Pay in Tough Times · Frozen salaries, bonuses still add up to a lot at PNM Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal By Michael Hartranft Journal Staff Writer A salary freeze imposed in 2008 for PNM Resource's top five executives remains in effect through the end of this year, reflecting continued tough economic times, according to the company. But they're still making pretty good money. And three of them accepted bonuses. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Sterba's base salary was $785,000 in 2008. He sold back unused vacation~ time to the company to earn a total of $830,288. In addition, he received fringe benefits totaling about $361,300. Sterba's total salary compensation in 2007 - a base salary of $774,231 plus sold-back vacation time - was $830,087. He also received almost $443,000 in fringe benefits. In 2008, PNM's top two execs, Sterba, and President and Chief Operating Officer Patricia Collawn, qualified for bonuses but declined them because of the company's financial condition, company spokesman Don Brown said. Sterba received his last bonus - $812,852 - in 2006, when PNM enjoyed a highly successful year. The company's stock that year closed at $31.10. The state's largest power company did award bonuses to three executives in 2008, after none were given in 2007. The awards were smaller than those granted two years ago, according to a report sent to shareholders in advance of their annual meeting next month. PNM Resources reported a loss of $229.7 million in 2008, including a fourth-quarter loss of $32.1 million. It earned $74.9 million in 2007. The company currently has a $52.2 million rate increase request pending before state regulators. If approved, it would raise residential rates about 4.6 percent in July and an additional 5.1 percent next April. The hike would come on top of a 6.4 percent rate increase approved last year, which included a fuel adjustment charge that brought last year's total bump to about 15 percent. Compensation packages for the other top four officers in 2008: · Collawn received a base salary of $440,00 and fringe benefits of about $587,000, including about $75,600 in relocation benefits. Her base salary in 2007, when she joined PNM, was $211,540, and she received about $581,400 in fringe benefits. · Charles N. Eldred, executive vice president and chief financial officer, had a base salary of $400,000 plus sold-back vacation time totaling $19,231. He received a bonus of $60,000, less than a third of the one he received in 2006. His fringe benefits totaled about $171,500, compared with about $355,300 in 2007. · Alice A. Cobb, senior vice president and chief administrative officer, had a base salary of $292,000 and received a $50,000 bonus in 2008. She also received about $195,600 in fringe benefits. Her salary in 2007 was $288,000 and her fringe benefits totaled about $211,000. She received a $181,214 bonus in 2006. · Patrick T. Ortiz, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, had a base salary of $268,000 in 2008 and received a $40,000 bonus. His fringe benefits totaled about $123,700. His salary in 2007 was $264,616, with fringe benefits totaling about $142,700. His last bonus, in 2006, was $133,383. Brown said executive bonuses are determined by the board's Human Resources and Compensation Committee based on individual and work-group performances, and compensation levels for the top five executives remain in the median range for companies the size of PNM Resources. "It was a tough year last year with our earnings significantly below what we had the prior year," Brown said. "The company also was downgraded by our ratings agencies and those challenges are reflected in the executive compensation." PNM's stock on the NYSE closed at $8.46, up 18 cents, on Monday. Albuquerque Journal Wednesday April 22, 2009 Sterba: $361K In Benefits In 2008 By Michael Hartranft Journal Staff Writer Beyond salaries, PNM Resources' top five executives received tens of thousands of dollars in insurance, retirement and other benefits in 2008. Additional compensation or fringe benefits for Chairman! CEO Jeff Sterba, President! COO Patricia Collawn, Executive VP/CFO Charles Eldred, Senior VP/GAO Alice A Cobb, and Senior VP/General Counsel/Secretary Patrick Ortiz included premiums for life, long-term care and disability· insurance, PNM spokesman Don Brown said. Sterba, for example, received about $361,000 in such benefits atop the $830,228 he received in base salary and sold-back vacation time. That included about $21,850 in insurance premiums, a spending account cap of $23,000, a company contribution of $23,150 for the retirement savings plan, and $290,325 in company contributions to the executive savings plan. Each executive received: an executive spending account for services such as income tax preparation, financial planning and medical services; a retirement savings plan with a company match of 75 percent for the first 6 percent of the individual's contribution to a 401k (additional contributions as individual gets older); and an executive savings plan with additional funds toward the individual's retirement. The company believes top executives should be able to save an amount proportionally similar to what a regular employee can save, Brown said. The executives receive a company match, an age-based contribution and a contribution to help them get between 40 and 60 percent of current income at age 65. Albuquerque Journal Thursday April 23, 2009 Mr Morales is beset by a large number of personal problems which prevents his participation in this project. But Morales phoned for about a 10 minute conversation at about 13:55 on Tuesday April 21, 2009. We are both in the NCUA fraud loss claim project which you shall soon see. Sent Tuesday April 21, 2009 14:10

Tuesday April 21, 2009 13:42 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#solararray Don Brown PNM spokesman Dear Don I have several questions regarding performance of PNM's Algodones solar array. Second purpose of this email is to submit a complaint and a proposal to Mr Sterba regarding solar-generated electricity. First the questions. 1 What is the purpose of the PNM Algodones solar facility? 2 Is the PNM Algodones solar facility connected to the grid? 3 What is the CAPACITY FACTOR of the PNM Algodones solar facility by month from September 2007 through March 2009? Please provide a plot similar to the ITRON SGIP Figure 3-1. 4 How many kWh [kilowatt HOURS] of electricity per month from September 2007 through March 2009 does the PNM Algodones solar facility produce? Table presentation please. 5 What is the average peak output [kW] of the PNM Algodones solar facility for each hour [24] for each month of the year from September 2007 through March 2009? Table presentation please. Complaints about the PNM electric integrated resource planning program include l About 17 meetings spanning over a year, held both in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, appears that participants were subject to poor planning. 2 A 229 page final report authored by a vocal segment of the participants appears too long and may contain irrelevant information. Report appears not to have covered important issues bought to participants attention by some PNM employees. 3 Failure to include PNM load forecaster Steve Martin's foils illustrating the causes of increased electric loads in New Mexico. 4 Failure to include in any meeting BTU availability forecasters which includes geologists. 5 Statement [N/A] in FOILS 6 and 7 that the laws of thermodynamics do not apply to solar and wind electricity generation technologies FOIL 6 FOIL 7 may be incorrect. These complaints regard past actions. At the final session of the electric irp Ms Evlin Wheeler asked participants if they would like to be involved in PNM's solar project. I reponded affirmative. I did not receive any information about this project, so I phoned Mr Greg Nelson on April 6, 2009 and left a message on his recorder. Mr Nelson returned my phone call on April 8. He told me that solar project negotiations were confidential, we would not receive any written information on the solar project, and that we may hear a public announcement in perhaps July 2009. We feel that a feasibility study of solar electric generation technologies would help PNM, its stockholders, the Obama administration and others make the best decision possible either to invest in or purchase solar electricity generation technologies. Chairman, President and CEO Questar Corporation Keith O. Rattie said on April 2, 2009 Why did my generation fail to develop wind and solar? Because our energy choices are ruthlessly ruled, not by political judgments, but by the immutable laws of thermodynamics. In engineer-speak, turning diffused sources of energy such as photons in sunlight or the kinetic energy in wind requires massive investment to concentrate that energy into a form that's usable on any meaningful scale. Perhaps solar technologies have changed since Mr Rattie's generation of engineers studied choices? Or perhaps assertions made in the post fast neutron Santa Fe, NM January 12, 2009 From actual experience, wind farms produce 1.2 watts per square meter. Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic methods capture 5 to 6 watts per square meter. There is no economy of size in either technology. Dividing the watts you need by those values gives the land area in square meters needed to produce the juice. The numbers are astronomical http://www.topix.net/forum/source/santa-fe-new-mexican/T0QVJ5UD3R25C8HRL are correct? But I believe that Mr Rattie's statement "the immutable laws of thermodynamics" is likely correct and that HEAT RATE can be computed for solar electric generation. If so, then "N/A" in FOIL 6 and 7 should be replaced by values. For the above reasons I propose study solar electric generation to try to determine if a solar technology with respect to HEAT IN is reasonable to produce advertised output measured in kWh or mWh, not peak kW or mW. Published CAPACITY FACTOR values need to be collected through a literature search. I propose to do this study by Internet search, email enquires, and phone calls. Preliminary searches indicate that this approach will work. Computations need to be made and explained. Results will be submitted to PNM in a concise report with references for PNM staff edit. Price for this work is $22,036. This work should be complete prior to the July PNM solar public anouncement. One of the reasons I make is proposal is that we need the money. Septuagenarians do not have many options for work. I worked in the capacity of an electrical engineer designing and implementing cryptographic hardware for Sandia labs. Here's a link to some of my accomplishments and goals. Professional technical writing is one of my skills. I have authored computing books for Harper Row, Reston-Prentice Hall, Academic Press - Elsevier spanning 40 years. Please give me a written response to this request for information and work proposal in writing by Tuesday April 28, 2009. Thanks bill

Friday April 17, 2009 15:13 HEAT RATE computations for solar electric generation The Future Shape of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) comment. Friday April 17, 2009 PNM electric irp FOIL 6 and 7 mock the laws of thermodynamics. Reaction of the sockholders might be interesting. Inclusion of word complaint is important to see that our document makes it to Mr Sterba. Referece to electric irp report is now linked to bookmark fishscale. :-) QUESTAR CORPORATION. Clean Energy: The Materials Play comment.

Monday April 27, 2009 08:14 Segment of State Is Showing Signs Of Recovery shows possible importance of altenergy to New Mexico economy. Solar and wind are suspect of on having enough HEAT IN to make practical differences in electricity generation. PNM likely has valuable information collected at its Algodones solar array. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#radosevich

State Is Showing Signs Of Recovery Hints of Activity Ease Pain of Recession Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal By Winthrop Quigley Journal Staff Writer Alternative energy boom ["T]his energy stuff is big," Reynis said. "Solar manufacturing is part of it, but there is a switching of gears that is going on." So-called green construction, once an aberration, is becoming standard, she said. That creates new demand for products being built by New Mexico alternative energy companies. "People are changing behavior," Reynis said. "New Mexico is well situated to benefit from that." Despite the global recession, in the first four months of 2009 Albuquerque Economic. Development has hosted more companies evaluating the city as a site for expansion or relocation than in any similar period in the organization's 49-year history, said AED president Gary Tonjes. "There are still a lot of solar and renewable energy companies coming around," said Carol Radosevich, who leads PNM Resources' economic development efforts. "I don't know of any impending announcements, but we're seeing a lot of inquiries." Radosevich speculates that companies are doing their ground work now so they will be able to move quickly when the global economy improves. "There is a proliferation of solar and wind energy startups," said Technology Ventures Corp. president Sherman McCorkle. "The international solar manufacturers are looking at New Mexico. The problem right now for solar companies is markets. Nobody's buying." Conventional wisdom has been that New Mexico's relatively small manufacturing base and relatively large government employment base keep the state from flying too high in good times and falling too far in bad times. Manufacturing is cyclical and recession-prone, so a smaller manufacturing sector means fewer lost jobs in bad times. Government employment tends to be steady and' even counter-cyclical, so even in bad times the government jobs usually remain, or even increase as anti-recession programs start. "The two national laboratories' and the Kirtland Air Force Base budgets have held steady," McCorkle said. "That's a real strength, particularly for the five counties in central New Mexico." There is still some truth to that conventional wisdom, Reynis said, but not as much as there once was. Manufacturing is still a small sector, but it is growing. Federal employment that once accounted for about 12 percent of the jobs in New Mexico is down to 3.6 percent statewide and 3.7 percent in Albuquerque, she said. Nationally, federal jobs account for 2 percent of employment. ... Albuquerque Journal Sunday April 26, 2009

Is the solar array merely PR? ----- Original Message ----- From: Brown, Don To: bill payne Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 11:32 AM Subject: RE: jeff sterba Bill, it is a small facility -- 25 kilowatts. db Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 6:09 AM Bill, no problem. Can I ask one favor? I am fine with our email discussion on your Web page, but could you possibly omit my email address from each posting (and also delete it from past postings)? Since you have started to post the emails, the amount of spam I am getting has increased substantially. I believe bots are picking up the email address from your page. If you notice in most places on the PNM Web site, we have forms to submit an email but typically do not list employee emails directly in the text for this very reason. Thanks. db We may be entering into a energy era the world has never seen before: decreasing supplies of oil and natural gas looks likely. PNM stock.

Copyright © 2007 Albuquerque Journal BY JACK KING Journal Staff Writer Running a profit-oriented utility while publicly advocating mandatory restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions seems hopelessly in conflict. But PMM Resources chairman, president and CEO Jeff Sterba told the Journal recently the contradiction is more apparent than real. Sterba - whose company has clashed with the Public Regulation Commission this summer over an energy conservation program and two requests for rate increases - said planning for the future of a utility in a world where limits on carbon dioxide emissions will soon be widely accepted requires taking positions that only seem contradictory. Q: Under your leadership, PNM was a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of businesses and environmental groups that advocates mandatory limits on carbon emissions. But, in March you and several other utility executives announced that such restrictions could damage utilities and raise costs throughout the economy. Isn't that a contradiction? Sterba: There's no contradiction at all. Frankly, I can clearly believe that you've got to do things that may increase costs. But you've got to do them with eyes wide open, and recognize that one, they will have cost implications, and two, the magnitude of the cost increases is a function of what gets implemented. I believe in a slow, stop and reduce strategy, and that's what USCAP is about. Slow the rate of increase (of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere) by 2020, stop the rate of increase, then start to decline it. Q: Doesn't that just delay cutting the amount of greenhouse gases going into the air? A: If we try to just decline, as some proposals have been, the only thing I could do to make sure I still served my customers, would be to cut back on coal generation and pick up natural gas generation. That's going to be much more expensive and the cost to the economy could be dramatic. If utilities pick up significant "generation of gas, we would add a serious load to the natural gas demand in their country." Q: So how do you believe limits on carbon dioxide should be done? A: In my judgment, you want to be careful what mechanism is used. I tend to favor a cap and trade system, but it's got to be economy wide. Otherwise, you don't get the lowest cost options. The point of regulation would be upstream, where the fuel enters into the economic cycle. So, with natural gas it could be at the point where natural gas comes into the pipeline. On the coal side, it could be at the coal mine, so that it would increase the cost of coal, or at the utility. The market would set a price on the basis of who's buying and selling and, if you're a manufacturer, you could see what the price of carbon was and decide whether it was cheaper to buy carbon allowances on the market or to do things in your system to reduce your carbon footprint. A lot of times, you would be able to reduce your carbon footprint, at a lower cost, and then sell your allowances." Q: A system very similar to that has been successful at cutting emissions of sulfur dioxide, which cause acid rain. A: That's how markets operate, and they can be very effective. But, they're not that simple. These are complex systems, particularly when you move to the scale of carbon emissions. It's a bit more of a challenge, because we don't necessarily have the technologies today. That's why I and some others advocate the use of what's called a safety valve which has been incorporated into legislation proposed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman. What it says is the government will set a cap on the price of carbon, which will escalate at a predefined rate. It will issue allowances at that price. So, if the market price looks like it's going above that, then you can buy allowances in the near term at this safety valve price. It provides protection from a shock to the economy and it provides some predictability for those of us who are going to operate under the carbon constrained system. That's one of my real motivations for supporting a mandatory constraint. It's a huge uncertainty, but it's the right thing to do, and the sooner we impose it, the better we'll all be. We'll be able to hold costs down much better by knowing what kind of system we have. Q: In previous discussions, you've said modern nuclear technology could be part of PNM's suite of tools for addressing global warming. Is PNM thinking about using more nuclear? A: We certainly are thinking about using more nuclear. If we didn't have Palo Verde, and our coal resources, we would not have been able to do what we've done with rates for customers. But, if we started building a nuclear plant today, even if it was on an existing site, it would still be 10 to 12 years away. So the earliest you could get one in today would be in the 2017 window. Probably, we will be evaluating nuclear resource, additions in the 2020 time frame. Nuclear expansion on the regulated side obviously would require the approval of the PRC. I tend to think there are some other things we're going to be doing in the intermediate time. Q: Such as what? A: Well, we have a natural- gas-combined-cycle facility that's in the final throes of construction near Las Cruces. It will be in service next year. We have signed an agreement for the construction of a small combustion turbine plant near Belen, scheduled for completion in June 2008. It will be 130 megawatts and powered by natural gas. We've launched a study, with the technological assessment and site assessment for a large-scale, concentrating solar project. If we find a technology that will work and we find a site that will work and we get comfortable with the economics, it could be in service by 2011 to 2012. We're also looking at an integrated-gasification combined cycle facility. What IGCC does is take coal through a gasifier, a chemical process to rum it into a gas, then it uses that gas to fire a regular turbine. IGCC by itself doesn't do anything about carbon. But, it will potentially allow you to strip the carbon out more cost effectively before you combust the gas. Then you're looking at a turbine that's burning hydrogen, not carbon. So, we're looking at a jointly developed project that would include carbon capture and sequestration. IGCC is very complicated. To do an initial study is $25 million. Q: Ben Luce, former director of the New Mexico Coalition for Clean, Affordable Energy, has charged PNM cut inside deals with the Richardson administration to soften the effects of energy legislation, particularly renewable energy legislation, in the last session. Is that true? A: PNM is engaged in the legislative process and we make our position on energy issues well known. It's part of the collaborative process and we feel many voices were heard this last session in addition to our own. Q: In the case of Senate Bill 418, which enlarged the renewable energy-use requirement for utilities to 20 percent of retail sales by 2020, Luce charges PNM's influence led to a reduction of the final energy-use target and to a failure to specify the deadlines for renewable energy use increases required to meet the 2020 target. How do you respond to that? A: Early in the legislative process, the governor's office convened a group of stakeholders, including electric utilities, CCAE, the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, including the Public Regulation Commission, the Environment Department and the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. Everyone had input and the two bills that passed the Legislature were the result of that collaborative process." Q: While writing the rules that will put SB 418 into action, the PRC also rewrote the requirement for the amounts and types of renewable energy utilities must use. Now, instead of picking and choosing from a menu of renewable sources, like solar, wind or biomass power, with each of the sources given different numbers of credits to encourage companies to use them, utilities will be required to adopt a fixed percentage of each source. What's your reaction to these new rules? A: We're still studying the new renewable energy portfolio standard, but we're concerned that its technology- specific mandates could further increase costs for customers at a time when the other costs of running our system are already rising. from PAGE 6 states, has a relatively small population and a relatively small electric load. This makes getting affordable scale on expensive technologies challenging. Ultimately, letting the market guide us on how and when we make investments will produce a better price for customers. Q: Is there any good reason a company would avoid adopting a wide variety of renewable resources? A: Sure. Cost would be one reason. Technology infancy would be another. We would like to diversify away from just wind and a very small amount of solar right now, but it's got to be done with an eye toward economy. At the end of the day someone's got to pay the bill. Q: In a speech at a shareholders' meeting this summer, you said that, instead. of being rewarded, just for increasing capacity, utilities should be rewarded for meeting customers' needs, whether that meant building a new plant or investing in devices to reduce energy use. How would you actually put that into effect? A: There are a couple of different mechanisms. One is, what if tomorrow we get into the rate base the money we spend to help customers reduce use?, By investing on their side of the meter, by investing in technology. There are a lot of things. Another way could be what's called the "avoided cost concept." What is our cost of building facilities to meet growing demand? Let's say it's 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. Let's take a percentage of that, say 9 cents per kilowatt-hour. The utility gets 9 cents per kilowatt-hour for every kilowatt hour it helps customers avoid using , through energy efficiency. You could call them "savowatts"; instead of selling them megawatts, we're saving a watt. Q: Is that the way utility companies are going to have to think between now and the end of the century? A: Oh, I don't think "have to." Some can decide to keep doing what they've always done. It's not, to me, what makes sense from the customer's perspective. Albuquerque Journal Business Outlook Thursday September 20, 2007

Tuesday April 21, 2009 07:23 Consider the electricity used by Bernalillo plant of American Gypsum. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#fieldtrip

Field trip to PNM Algodones, NM solar array, Monday April 20, 2009. Downturn in construction is reflected by lots of stored wallboard containers at American Gypsum plant in Bernalillo, NM In the past very few containers seen. Above jpg made on return to Albuquerque along highway 313 just north of Bernalillo. We wonder how many kWh of electricity Bernalillo American Gypsum consumes each month.