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The U.S. exported a record amount of oil during the first half of the year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. During that time frame, the country averaged 3.99 million barrels of oil a day exported. This was the most oil exported since the U.S. ended its ban on exporting crude in 2015. Exports […]
After the governor vetoed legislation to support geothermal energy that received limited opposition from lawmakers during the legislative session was vetoed, Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, has his eyes set on the upcoming session to try again. He told the Economic and Rural Development and Policy Committee that the geothermal working group has met […]
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján introduced legislation that seeks to withdraw portions of the Pecos River watershed in northern New Mexico from federal mineral leasing. The Democratic senators who represent New Mexico cited a mine spill that occurred in the 1990s and killed fish in a more than 11 mile stretch of […]
For five generations, cattle have grazed on the Wagon Rock Ranch north of Kirtland during winter months, but now that range has a new purpose: solar generation. Thousands of posts dot the landscape, many of which have boxes of solar panels beside them, waiting to be installed. John and Joye McHenry, the landowners, attended a […]
As developers who were awarded slots in New Mexico’s community solar program work to get agreements to hook their future solar arrays into the grid, some of them may find that the process to connect to the existing electrical grid is too expensive. Kevin Cray, the mountain west senior director for the Coalition for Community […]