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Rene Lopez: “Our baseload is continually going away. That's our coal…”

Featuring: Rene Lopez, Republican | Arizona Corporation Commission

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Interview with Rene Lopez | 2024 Arizona Corporation Commission Candidate

Published | Video Starts at 04:00

So that being said, again, AP's Tucson electric power, EpCoR, those kinds of about 350 private utilities that they oversee for rate setting. So what I see the biggest issue when it comes to that is Our baseload is continually going away. That's our coal plants. And they're, you know, justifiable and or not just about reasons, wherever you want to lay on that. But they are going away and they've already decommissioned a few of them. (04:00–04:05)

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Asserts that Arizona's baseload power, primarily from coal plants, is continually being phased out.

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