{"id":100919,"date":"2018-03-20T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/utility-investigates-coal-silo-failure-at-new-mexico-plant\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T22:48:06","slug":"utility-investigates-coal-silo-failure-at-new-mexico-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/utility-investigates-coal-silo-failure-at-new-mexico-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility investigates coal silo failure at New Mexico plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":130468,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20180320\/NEWS01\/180329979\/AR\/0\/AR-180329979.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"One of the units at the San Juan Generating Station, coal-fired power plant in northwest New Mexico, was taken offline after a structural failure occurred in one of its coal silos.\",\"article_id\":89488,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"Susan Montoya Bryan\/Associated Press file\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":false,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2018-03-20T16:48:06.000-06:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2018-03-20T16:48:07.000-06:00\",\"width\":1067,\"height\":1600,\"order\":null,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>FARMINGTON \u2013 One of the units at a coal-fired power plant that serves customers in the southwestern United States has been taken offline as officials investigate a structural failure in one of its coal silos.<\/p>\n<p>Public Service Co. of New Mexico confirmed Tuesday that the failure over the weekend at the San Juan Generating Station resulted in a fire and some damage that was limited to an area around the silo.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries and utility officials say customers aren\u2019t being affected.<\/p>\n<p>The utility has plans to close the San Juan plant within the next few years as it works to eliminate coal resources from its portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Two other units at the decades-old San Juan plant were closed recently as part of an agreement to curb haze-causing pollution in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>injuries reported from fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1424],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-coal"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100919"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}