New Legislation Would Ban NSA From Arizona

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25. Why do that, all the Federal Government has to do is refused to transmit electricity to Arizona

Remember the Hoover dam is a main source of electricity in Arizona, It is owned by the Federal Government. The Federal Government can say, if you do NOT permit your local utilities to hook a NSA building up, we will just stop selling electrical power to your local utilities.

As I write below, the State may have the power to deny local utilities the right to hook up a NSA building, but the Federal Government controls power produced by the Hoover dam (which is Federally owned) AND the Federal Government is the sole regulatory of the the interstate movement of such power. i.e. the Federal Government can just say we are NOT selling you any power, until you hook up that building.

Thus in real terms this bill is meaningless. If this was in an Eastern or Mid Western State, which is an electrical exporting state, then it may be usable. In such areas the States may be able to tell the Federal Government to take their power elsewhere, for they have other, internal, sources for electrical power. On the other hand, Arizona has no short term way to provide the Electrical power it wants, that plus their sources of electrical power, this is meaningless.

http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/powerfaq.html

http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=AZ

On top of this other sources of Electrical power in Arizona is a Nuclear Plant and a Coal Plant on the Navajo Reservation. The Reservation is under the sole jurisdiction of the Federal Government, as is the Nuclear plant (Through if the power goes into the State system, then it would be state regulated).

Total Net Electricity Generation:..............11,764 thousand MWh
Petroleum-Fired: ..............................................2 thousand MWh
Natural Gas-Fired:.....................................4,124 thousand MWh
Coal-Fired:.................................................3,917 thousand MWh
Nuclear:.....................................................2,930 thousand MWh
Hydroelectric:................................................545 thousand MWh
Other Renewables:.......................................229 thousand MWh

http://www.eia.gov/state/data.cfm?sid=AZ