Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC-YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permit Application

Comment From: Naim Abdul

7/04/26 @ 8:21 AM

I am writing to express my support for Project Jupiter, which I believe offers significant benefits for our community.

Project Jupiter is poised to bring substantial economic growth to Dona Ana County. It is anticipated to create 4,000 construction...↓

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Comment From: Alexis Monto

7/04/26 @ 8:21 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:21 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:21 AM

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Comment From: Ricardo Salvador

7/04/26 @ 8:20 AM

I'm strongly opposed to the project because it threatens water and air quality, and because of the lack of transparency and the false pretenses of the builders.

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Comment From: Jesus Perez

7/04/26 @ 8:17 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:16 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:15 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:15 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:15 AM

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Comment From: Christian Comarena

7/04/26 @ 8:15 AM

I entirely support the project I love how they got approached me stopping burning gases and natural gases and going with the new battery that stops pollution and brings back our drinking water significantly reduces a lot of the major problems in New ...↓

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Comment From: Mija Rimmer

7/04/26 @ 8:15 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:14 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:14 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:14 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:14 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:14 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:13 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:12 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:12 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:11 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:11 AM

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Comment From: Jennifer Urias

7/04/26 @ 8:09 AM

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Comment From: Rachel Anderson

7/04/26 @ 8:09 AM

I urge the NMED to deny Air Quality Construction Permit Application 10883 for the Yucca Growth Infrastructure (YGI) Microgrid in southern Doña Ana County. Granting a permit to emit over 10 million metric tons of CO2 annually violates NMED's mission t...↓o protect public health and prevent air quality deterioration, disproportionately harming BIPOC and low-income communities.

The application relies on an unproven, unregulatable, and inadequately tested design:

* Unprecedented, Unproven Scale: YGI proposes using 2,275 Bloom Energy Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC). Though several projects have been announced with much fanfare, the largest operating Bloom installation is a 40 MW facility - 60 times smaller than what is proposed here. Scaling this technology to a mega-utility application remains entirely unproven.

* Suspect Estimates & Inadequate Testing: The emissions data provided is based on testing of a single, 65 kW unit four times for four hours. Extrapolating data from a unit 37,876 times smaller than the proposed plant capacity - and adjusting it with an arbitrary 15% safety margin - fails to provide credible empirical evidence. The emissions data provided by the company cannot be trusted.

* Enforcement Impossibility: The design routes 2,275 individual cells through separate stacks with no add-on pollution control mechanisms or integrated continuous monitoring for particulate matter, VOCs, or shifting CO2 intensity. NMED cannot practically enforce compliance under 20.2.72.210 NMAC across thousands of individual, degrading units.

* Severe Public Health & Environmental Impacts: The microgrid will emit 161.2 tons/year of CO and 124 tons/year of VOCs near existing EPA non-attainment zones. It will generate a thermal plume and a "heat island" effect, raising downwind temperatures by up to 3.6°F in a sweltering desert climate, threatening vulnerable populations.

Furthermore, concentrating 10M metric tons of climate-warming CO2 into 275 acres - exceeding the combined emissions of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces - creates localized health risks. Emerging 2025–2026 research links elevated CO2 levels to permanent changes in human blood chemistry, oxidative stress, and cognitive decline. Because CO2 sensitivity exists on a normal spectrum, even minor baseline increases can induce anxiety and panic attacks in sensitive individuals.

Viable alternatives exist. The June 2025 Lazard Levelized Cost of Energy Report confirms that renewables are the lowest-cost resources to deploy and tech leaders are already powering massive data centers using firm solar-wind-battery configurations.

YGI must not be allowed to greenwash a fossil-fueled plant that erases New Mexico's climate progress. NMED must reject this permit, or at the very least schedule a formal public hearing to investigate these severe community impacts.

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Comment From: Angelito Gutierrez

7/04/26 @ 8:08 AM

My name is angelito Gutierrez I am in support of the project. I think its good that your doing this. It's good for the environment and its helpful for all the jobs. I personally like that its helping new mexico out as much as it is.
Angelito Gutierr...↓

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Comment From: Alsandra Apachito

7/04/26 @ 8:08 AM

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Comment From: Ernesto Herrera

7/04/26 @ 8:08 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:08 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:08 AM

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Comment From: Jj Sanchez

7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

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Comment From: Colton King

7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

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Comment From: Estevan Melendrez

7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

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Comment From: Elyn Perez

7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

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Comment From: Victoria Duncan

7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

I think that cutting the use of water and making an honest attempt to improve the environment in any way is a huge plus. Keep it going, progress is everything.

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Comment From: Refujio Herrera

7/04/26 @ 8:07 AM

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Comment From: Marcus Casas Casas

7/04/26 @ 8:06 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:06 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:06 AM

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7/04/26 @ 8:06 AM

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