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SANTA FE - Governor Bill Richardson today
announced that the State of New Mexico and US
Air Force, along with the cities of Alamogordo, Clovis and Albuquerque
had entered into agreements to pursue four new clean energy projects.
These Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) are the result of a two-day New
Mexico Energy Investment Initiative Conference, which brought together
high-level thinkers on energy from across the country and key leaders around
our state to work together to renewable energy projects.
“We’ve worked hard to put together strong policy and
powerful incentives to attract and keep clean energy development in our state,
and putting together specific clean energy projects is the next logical
step,” said Governor Bill Richardson. “Each of these clean energy
projects--from moving Holloman and Kirtland toward green power purchasing to
the generation of electricity from biogas—strengthen our claim that New Mexico is the clean
energy state.”
“These opportunities support the Air Force Energy Program to
increase supplies of green energy and provide distributed power to the
bases,” said Assistant Secretary Anderson. “These are the first renewable energy MOUs the Air Force
has signed with any state in the nation.”
During this two-day Energy Investment
Initiative Conference, the parties have been able to put together four
memoranda of understanding (MOU):
- An agreement among
the Air Force, the City of Alamogordo and the State of New Mexico to
pursue a project to supply solar power to Holloman Air Force Base.
- An agreement with
the Air Force, the Southwest Biomass Cooperative, the City of Clovis, and
state of New Mexico to pursue the creation of a plant to utilize New
Mexico's abundant dairy waste. This may consist of a cogeneration
project to generate electricity, and a bio-methane pipeline-quality
gas project.
- A memorandum of
understanding among the Air Force, the City of Albuquerque and the State
of New Mexico announcing the Air Force’s intention to pursue green
power purchasing at its facilities in New Mexico. Two possibilities
include piggybacking on PNM’s existing solar RFP and exploring
a thin film solar photovoltaic project as a means of supplying state
and city power needs.
- An agreement between
the Air Force, the City of Clovis, and the
State of New Mexico
to pursue a wind energy project.
If all of these projects reach completion, they will add up to
approximately $600 to 800 million dollars in capital investment and between 145
to 245 megawatts of additional renewable energy in our state.
Clovis-Wind-MOU.pdf