End of San Antonio’s last coal-fired power plant in sight; CPS likely to rely more on natural gas
into the atmosphere last year and 6.3 million tons in 2020, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The larger Spruce 2 unit produced just over two-thirds of the plant’s total CO2 emissions in 2021.
San Antonio’s already poor air quality is the reason CPS would have to invest in new equipment to keep burning coal at Spruce 1. Bexar County has, so the EPA requires the utility to add environmental technology at Spruce by 2028 to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from the coal plant. Garza said converting Spruce 2 to natural gas would extend its useful life and ease the impact on bills. In aCPS released in January 2021, it estimated a swift closure of the coal plant would cost ratepayers an average of between $6 and $12 extra per month.
CPS generated $326 million in revenue from wholesale sales in 2018. At the end of that year, the utility closed the J.T. Deely coal plant — and its earnings from the wholesale plummeted.But there was a big upside to shutting down Deely. The plant emitted 5.3 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2018, and its closure resulted in a large decline in CO2 pollution in San Antonio, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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