On Assignment; On Assignment Library Footage: Jemez Geothermal
Description:
Narrated segment with interviews, shots of country and plant. Baca Land & Cattle Sign, Panoramic view of the mountains, men drilling. “Natural resources often harbor potential energy forms such as geothermal energy. In the 1970s union geothermal contracted for lease rights on 100,000 acres privately owned by the bacca land and cattle company public service company of New Mexico combined efforts with union geothermal in the late 1970s to distribute and market electricity generated from the proposed 50 MW Baca One power plant in Redondo Canyon. Hopes were high for this was to be the country's first large scale hot water project and was intended to generate enough electricity for a community of 50,000 people. but Baca One was plagued with delays generated by its opponents.”
