New Mexico court weighs fight over coalfired power plant

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s largest electric provider wants the state’s highest court to overturn a 2021 decision by regulators, who rejected a proposal to transfer its shares in a coal-fired power plant to a Navajo energy company. The state Supreme Court heard arguments March 28 in a case that could determine how long the Four Corners Power Plant will continue to operate. Providing power to customers in Arizona and New Mexico, it’s one of a handful of remaining coal-fired plants in the Southwestern U.S. that are slated for closure over the next decade.Navajo Transitional Energy Co. had sought to…