Annual Report 3 - New Mexico - Energy, Minerals and Natural ...
Annual Report 3 - New Mexico - Energy, Minerals and Natural ...
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<strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong>’s total installed wind capacity is generated at the<br />
following wind farms:<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong> Wind <strong>Energy</strong> Center (204 MW), De Baca<br />
<strong>and</strong> Quay counties<br />
Red Mesa Wind <strong>Energy</strong> Center (102 MW), Cibola County<br />
High Lonesome Mesa Wind Project (100 MW), Torrance<br />
County<br />
Caprock Wind Ranch (80 MW), Quay County<br />
San Juan Mesa Wind Project (120 MW), Roosevelt County<br />
Aragonne Mesa Wind Project (90 MW), Guadalupe<br />
County<br />
Llano Estacado Wind Ranch (2 MW), Curry County.<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong> Wind <strong>Energy</strong> Working Group met once this year<br />
in Santa Fe <strong>and</strong> discussed the promotion of small wind turbines<br />
<strong>and</strong> possible new initiatives to advance wind power development.<br />
Participants in the Working Group are stakeholders in <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>Mexico</strong> wind power, such as local, state, <strong>and</strong> federal agencies,<br />
utilities, cooperatives, developers, grass-roots <strong>and</strong> non-profit<br />
organizations, l<strong>and</strong> owner associations, farmers, ranchers, <strong>and</strong><br />
tribal <strong>and</strong> environmental organizations. The group’s objectives are<br />
to promote environmental protection, boost economic development<br />
within the state through the use of wind energy, <strong>and</strong> foster the increased use of wind-generated electricity by the<br />
energy generators <strong>and</strong> consumers of <strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong>. Additional outreach actions by ECMD staff included speaking<br />
events <strong>and</strong> numerous interviews with media outlets.<br />
ECMD operates a 100-meter-tall meteorological tower on <strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong>’s eastern plains to collect wind resource data.<br />
This long-term wind speed data, provided freely to the public, helps spur the development of <strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong> wind<br />
farms.<br />
BIOMASS: Agricultural waste, forest thinnings <strong>and</strong> algae have the potential to provide affordable renewable<br />
energy while reducing environmental hazards <strong>and</strong> taking advantage of <strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong>’s unique l<strong>and</strong>scape.<br />
Agricultural Biomass Tax Credit [NMSA 1978, § 7-2-18.26]: Passed in the 2010 <strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong> legislative session,<br />
the law provides a $5 per ton tax credit for dairy or feedlot manure delivered to an energy production facility that<br />
converts the waste into electricity, biocrude, or gaseous fuel for commercial use thus reducing waste, avoiding<br />
groundwater contamination <strong>and</strong> mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. <strong>New</strong> <strong>Mexico</strong> is the seventh largest milk<br />
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Photo by: Michael McDiarmid<br />
Nacelle – housing<br />
all of the generating<br />
components – of<br />
American-made 2.5<br />
megawatt Clipper<br />
wind turbine at High<br />
Lonesome Mesa wind<br />
project.
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