Mission Statement
Enchant Energy is a New Mexico company that seeks to capture CO2 for sequestration purposes and electricity production by investing in state-of-the-art environmental technology at San Juan Generating Station. These activities are intentionally designed to further New Mexico’s dual goals of substantially reducing its statewide CO2 output, and supporting New Mexico’s economy by employing hundreds of people in San Juan County and on the Navajo Nation by providing reliable, low-cost and extremly low-emmission wholesale electricity.
Recent Posts
Can Carbon Capture Save the San Juan Coal Plant?
By Catherine Morehouse | cmorehouse@industrydive.com Nov 21, 2019 New Mexico's second largest coal plant is slated for closure, succumbing to poor economics and further pushed to the brink by the state's comprehensive Energy Transition Act (ETA) passed earlier this...
Plans for San Juan Generating Station to operate to 2035
By Steve Terrell | sterrell@sfnewmexican.com Nov 5, 2019 Peter Mandelstam has decades of experience in renewable energy. He developed the first large-scale wind energy project in Montana. He won the first offshore wind energy power purchase agreement in the United...
Environmentalist joins Enchant Energy’s efforts to keep San Juan Generating Station Open
FARMINGTON — Peter Mandelstam has dedicated decades to developing renewable energy, so his latest efforts to keep a coal-fired power plant open may come as a surprise to some people. Just weeks ago, Mandelstam accepted a position as chief operating officer for Enchant...
Selch: Plans for carbon capture at power plant will help develop an emerging technology
DURANGO, COLORADO — Enchant Energy CEO Jason Selch told members of the Four Corners Air Quality Group that carbon capture technology could reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the San Juan Generating Station by six million tons each year. Selch was one of about a...
The Scott Michlin Morning Program- Nate Duckett, Mayor of Farmington
Mayor Nate Duckett’s discussion with Scott Michlin on San Juan College radio station KSJE on the Enchant Energy project. Click here to listen to the interview
California Public Utility Commission Decision Extends Natural Gas Generation
Concerned about looming reliability issues, the California Public Utilities Commission has proposed to extend the planned retirement of as much as 3,750 MW of gas-fired plants and to accept offers from gas fired generation in a proposed solicitation. In the proposed...
San Juan Generating Station
Update on Carbon Capture Retrofit Project
Sargent & Lundy Pre-Feasibility Study
Enchant Energy Corporation, (Enchant) commissioned the world-class engineering firm of Sargent & Lundy to conduct a pre-feasibility study for transforming the San Juan Generating Station (SJGS) into a large, state-of-the-art carbon dioxide (CO2) capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS) facility.