Senate committee hears House Bill 93 to encourage advanced grid technologies for New Mexico
Lawmakers, utilities advocates and environmental groups debated House Bill 93, which would add planning and cost-recovery guidelines at the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) for "advanced grid technologies" intended to increase capacity and reliability on existing transmission infrastructure.
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Representative Patricia Ortez presented House Bill 93 to the Senate conservation committee, saying the measure would help address congestion on transmission lines and speed connections for utility-scale resources including wind, solar and geothermal. "We have incredible energy resources in the state, but getting these new utility-scale sources ... hooked up to the grid is a pretty slow process," Ortez said.
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