REIA - NM

Join us at Boxing Bear Brewing Co for Solar Drinks and get an update on proposed changes to the PNM Net Metering Program. RSVP link in the comments. We hope to see you there!

Last month we were honored to host two international guests, Veronica Ortega Cueto of Petasolare SRL and Alejandro Alvarado of New Sun Road Guatemala both visiting through a U.S. Department of State program.

Thank you to the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Juan A. Delgadillo of Unirac and Jordan Barry of EverGuard Solar for helping to welcome these guests and strengthen our international solar community.

The sun powers us all!

New location for Solar Drinks on June 18! Join us at Boxing Bear Brewing Co's Firestone Taproom for networking, apps, and a drink on us.

RSVP link is in the comments. We hope to see you there!

New Mexico is in the top 5 states for energy storage in SEIA's new Energy Storage Market Outlook Report. Check the slides for more data and insights.

The four companies involved in the Pino project are all REIA-NM Members.

Congratulations to Pluma, LLC, ForeFront Power, Standard Solar, Inc. and Solstice on bringing a total of 48.4 megawatts to New Mexicans across this 8-project portfolio!

Join REIA-NM and our Community Solar Committee to be part of this growing CS community. Link to more info in the comments.

We hope you will join us in June for Solar Drinks, our quarterly networking event.

Please RSVP at the link in the comments.

Thank you to our sponsor, SunState Solar Inc!

Colorado just became the second state to pass legislation to allow plug-in solar; the legislation also encourages the use of meter collars for safe, immediate interconnection.

Plug-in Solar and Meter Collar Adapters are two initiatives that REIA-NM will be focusing on in next year's legislative session, so this is exciting news from our Northern neighbors.

Want to know more? We are planning a webinar series for this summer that will delve into these and other topics like Virtual Power Plants and Permitting Reform. Sign up for our newsletter in the comments or follow us here to stay informed!

Electrify New Mexico was featured in the May/June issue of Green Fire Times. Thank you to Seth Roffman for the great pictures, coverage, and partnership on this event.

Read the full article, linked in the comments, and check out the other pieces on the future of water in New Mexico while you're there!

Welcome to our newest member Sustainable Engineering LLC.

Sustainable Engineering LLC provides vertically integrated energy management services that they call Energy Infrastructure as a Service (EiaaS) to businesses and organizations desiring to become more sustainable.

They have worked on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resource projects in the agricultural, industrial, commercial, and residential sectors. They are proud to offer EIaaS to their clients including conducting energy assessments and analysis work, managing projects, and engineering.

Their goal is to help clients to reduce their energy; thus, reducing their utility cost, which fits into their overall mission to promote sustainability, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and foster clean energy sector growth.

Find out more and help welcome them in the comments!

"We will always need to build more generation and transmission. But the smartest near-term path is to squeeze more value out of the system we already have [...] smarter use of existing assets can unlock capacity far faster than new construction alone."

Jigar Shah's unique focus in this op-ed on the importance of front-of-the-meter, community-scale projects is refreshing. We hear a lot about customer-sited resources when it comes to VPPs and distributed energy, but Shah claims that a bigger opportunity is available.

He argues that states should keep four principles in mind to create a supportive policy landscape:

1. Require utilities to share data and identify where the grid needs help.
2. Benchmark costs and risk across ownership models.
3. Apply consistent interconnection and operational standards to all projects.
4. Preserve strong commission oversight and transparency.

Check out the full article, linked in the comments, and let us know what you think of the argument and what we can do here in New Mexico to be ready.