New Mexico Gets it Right! [RE-wrenches]

Allan Sindelar allan at positiveenergysolar.com
Tue Dec 27 13:42:44 PST 2005


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Wrenches,
Something pretty good happened at our state's Public Regulatory Commission
hearing this morning.

The PRC passed a case which will allow PNM, the state's largest IOU, to pay
a customer with a grid-tied PV system 13 cents per kilowatt-hour for up to
12 years, for the right to claim the power generated by the system toward
our state-mandated Renewable Portfolio Standard. This payment will require
installation of a second meter, as the credit is paid whether the power is
consumed on-site or sent into the grid. This payment is in addition to
existing retail net metering (at about 8 cents/kWhr).

Both the utility and the RE committee, including the RE
political-legislative advocates, were in favor of this. Randy of Positive
Energy testified with some economic analysis.

We are very pleased with this development. I had pushed at earlier hearings
for production-based incentives, in order to benefit good design and
installation practices, and this provides that.

Hooray for New Mexico. I hope this gets some good national press.

Allan at Positive Energy

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