Renewable Progress

I ran up to Santa Fe today to attend Governor Richardson's signing of landmark legislation in the renewable energy area. Senate Bill 418 will dramatically increase New Mexico’s Renewable Portfolio Standard and our use of clean electricity. House Bill 188 creates a Renewable Energy Transmission Authority to promote clean energy jobs and help New Mexico both develop our clean energy resources and market them to other states.



New Mexico can rightly lay claim to being one of the top states in the nation when passing legislation aimed at making us energy independent and dealing with global climate change. These bills were worked on by a lot of different groups as you can see in the photo above. Both industry and environmentalists toiled to make the bills a reality.