Mayor calls for shut down of Austins involvement in Fayette Power Plant [Video]

AUSTIN (KXAN) — When looking at the future of Austin’s energy generation, Mayor Kirk Watson says he’s looking at three prongs: sustainability and climate, affordability and reliability.

Those prongs are elements Austin Energy is looking at right now as part of its 2030 Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan, which is slated to come back to Austin City Council next month.

Austin Mayor takes aim at ‘city’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter’

But late Friday, Watson announced in a newsletter that he was “concerned” about the direction Austin Energy was heading with that plan. Namely, that he didn’t feel it incorporated a hard enough approach to departing from Austin’s largest greenhouse gas producer — the Fayette Power Plant.

“I think we need to set a clear vision of a goal on when we’re going to get out of this,” Watson said. “And we should continue to balance those three things that I talked …