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The electric grid in the United States was built in a time when populations were smaller, climate change was not a concern and cybersecurity wasn’t something people were thinking about. But that is changing and Rikki Seguin, the executive director of Interwest Energy Alliance, said a regional transmission organization is needed to help address challenges […]

Nicole Maestas Olonovich, a resident of Albuquerque’s South Valley, has limited income at her disposal to help her and her one-year-old child. The mother and disabled veteran is concerned that increasing electric utility rates may lead to difficult decisions in the future. “A 10 percent increase for me would have been almost $40 this month,” […]

After several delays in the process, New Mexico’s community solar program is ramping up with the 45 selected projects that the state is working on getting interconnection agreements in place to allow the electricity generated at the arrays to be sent to customers using existing utility-owned transmission and distribution lines. Kevin Cray, mountain west senior […]

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced on Wednesday that she and Ohkay Owingeh Governor Larry Phillips, Jr. signed a settlement that resolves some of the decades-old disputes over water rights along the Rio Chama. The settlement allows the Pueblo and nearby acequias to share water during shortages on the Rio Chama stream system rather than relying […]

The federal agency that investigates claims that a domestic animal has been killed by a predator has released new, stronger standards that it will use when deciding if a Mexican wolf is responsible for livestock death. Conservation groups have been pushing Wildlife Services, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to strengthen its standards […]