The Brookings Institute — the Washington, DC-based think tank — on Wednesday released a report with a very fancy title: “Centers of Invention: Leveraging the Mountain West Innovation Complex for Energy System Transformation.” Luckily for readers, the stuff covered by the paper’s authors, Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman, is light on the fancy and a bit [...]

The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission has approved a new energy plan for PNM – the largest utility company in New Mexico, which serves nearly 500,000 customers statewide.

What better place to test the performance of solar panels than sun-soaked New Mexico? CFV Solar Test Laboratory — a photovoltaic (PV) test company jointly owned by CSA Group, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, the Fraunhofer USA Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE and VDE Testing and Certification Institute — will open a [...]

Nevada-based Matinee Energy, Inc. has reached a three-way agreement with two Korean firms, Hyundai Heavy Industries and LG Electronics, Inc. through whic the trio will install 240 megawatts (MW) worth of solar plants in the country’s southwest region.

The New Mexico Property Tax Incentive gives solar customers a loophole out of a state law that says property value cannot increase more than 3 percent in one year or 6.1 percent in two years, unless physical improvements are made to the property. Under such a circumstance, the property value may increase at a rate that exceeds these limits.

Intel Corp. today announced plans to install solar photovoltaic (PV) installations at eight U.S. locations in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon. The computer chip maker also announced it will increase the amount of clean power it purchases in the form of renewable energy credits (RECs) to more than 1.4 billion kilowatt hours — an [...]

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today signed an executive order outlining the state’s plan for building a green economy. “A comprehensive green economy is critical to the future of New Mexico and will lead our state into a new era of economic vitality and stability,” Governor Richardson said at the signing, which was held at [...]

North America’s largest solar energy services provider, SunEdison, and Xcel Energy’s regional operating company, Southwestern Public Service Company, today announced a deal for five photovoltaic (PV) solar installations in New Mexico. Together the installations will total 50 megawatts (mWs) of solar generation capacity — enough to power more than 10,000 homes. To be sited in [...]

It doesn’t take a solar industry wonk to know that New Mexico gets a lot of sunshine. In addition to this bountiful solar resource, the state also has a renewable energy standard on the books mandating that, by 2020, all investor-owned utilities must generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources. Of [...]

A number of U.S. states require electricity providers to derive a minimum percentage of their power from renewable sources by a certain date. Such a requirement is often referred to a renewable portfolio standard, or RPS. Currently, 24 states, plus the District of Columbia have formalized RPSs in place, while five other states have legislated [...]