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New Mexico utilities look ahead to renewable energy mandates!

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A solar project meant to provide 10% of Gallup’s electricity for the next two decades is falling short of expectations, highlighting just one of the challenges as investor-owned utilities and rural electric cooperatives across New Mexico look to boost their share of renewable energy to meet the state’s escalating benchmarks. Utilities scrambled to meet a statewide requirement in 2020 for having 20% of retail electricity sales come from renewable energy sources. Not all of them met the goal. The state’s largest electric utility — Public Service Co. of New Mexico — missed the mark by a small percentage but expects to come into compliance soon when a new wind farm in Torrance County begins commercial operations.

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Why 2021 will be a boom year for solar!

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The global COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on many global industries, but it was a period of growth for the renewable sector. This is set to extend into 2021 with solar set to have its biggest year to date with individuals, businesses and government lining up to join the renewables revolution.

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5 Advantages of Solar Power!

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As the cost of renewable energy continues to fall, more and more households are switching to clean, renewable electricity sources. Among the most affordable and abundant of these is residential solar. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association,1solar generated $17 billion in investments for the U.S. economy in 2018.

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The Environmental and Health Benefits of Solar Energy

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Solar energy will create environmental and health benefits worth over $400 billion by 2050.

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Why ‘Too Much’ Wind and Solar Is a Feature, Not a Bug!

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We are going to build a lot more wind and solar over the coming decades. It will inevitably lead to oversupply of these resources on the grid. But is that a good thing?

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NV Energy Continues to Bring Benefits of Solar Energy to Customers!

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Today, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) approved a stipulation agreement between NV Energy, the Regulatory Operations Staff of the PUCN, Bureau of Consumer Protection and other stakeholders that approves a portion of the company's integrated resource plan (IRP) amendment and brings the benefits of three new large-scale solar plus energy storage projects

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Take advantage of solar power

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The problem with nuclear power is its horrific downside and lack of recycling. The beauty of solar power is that each homeowner is freed from the antiquated business model of other forms of centralized power.

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Community solar benefits citizens, not corporations

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Have you noticed a trend lately? Distilled, the headlines could read “Spanish firm to acquire PNM,” “French company to build massive solar plants in Four Corners” or even more simply, “Benefits of solar energy flee New Mexico.” European companies are eating our solar lunch and dinner.

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New Mexico utilities look ahead to renewable energy mandates.

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With push to build solar on public land, federal, state officials face a growing pressure

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Across the West, states are requiring utilities to move away from fossil fuels and increase their portfolios of renewables.

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Franklin County may see a 2,000-acre solar farm in 2023

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Invenergy, a Chicago-based solar company, wants to build a solar-powered, 250-megawatt electric generating facility in Pleasant and Prairie townships in western Franklin County.