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Incentives for solar to grow too fast in New Mexico
The dispute over power purchase agreements in Santa Fe New Mexico is warming, with the state Public Regulation (RPC) examiner, Carolyn R. Glick, ruling that third-party contracts are legal and Services Company Public New Mexico (PNM) to insist that they are not.
Failure Glick October 23 that third-party contracts are legal – and that energy developers non-public utility – has PNM down the city of Santa Fe, a PNM customer who wants to contract with Maryland-based SunEdison to install solar photovoltaic system, which SunEdison will own, and which city to buy the electricity generated.
The PRC has yet to confirm or reverse the decision Glick and, while insisting that PNM believes this system of independent power producer to be regulated PRC, as well as utilities state.
Santa Fe wants to install solar panels in at least eight city-owned buildings, with the city to buy the electricity produced in the "competitive" Rates, while capture SunEdison tax credits and renewable energy credits available to offset the cost of installation.
Based Glick their opinion on the fact that it is legal for a utility customer, such as a hospital, to rent a generator (or "distributed generation," the system) of a company other than PNM, for example. In addition, Glick said it is illegal for a developer of energy to move power from one place to another using the service lines public power. This practice, called "roll retail prevents distributed generation companies that install many solar panels, some of the larger than necessary for the needs of an individual building, the sale of excess energy from one building to another.
PNM plans to attack the decision to the commission of all of China, based on his belief that the legal analysis is inadequate, and Glick said that the decision is a recommendation of a ruler.
One wonders why, since all New Mexico public-owned utilities, cooperative rural electrification and staff Republic China are parties to the case, if not the decision, which also saw bodies such as the cities of Santa Fe and Las Cruces, and SunEdison, the Association of Industries Renewable Energy in New Mexico, and a dozen other groups and individuals. In addition, more than 450 people wrote to the PRC expressed support for these agreements to purchase third power.
In July, PNM advocated reducing incentives for installing solar PV systems in homes and businesses, saying the program was growing too fast. The initiative was launched in 2006 as part of an effort to meet the standard PNM state renewable portfolio or RPS, which requires 6 percent of its energy from renewable sources now, rising 10 percent in 2011, 15 percent in 2015 and 20 percent in 2020.
The People's Republic China has also mandated renewable diversification, with 20 percent coming from solar energy, 20 percent from wind, and 10 percent of third source, such as geothermal and biofuels. The mandate of distributed generation, of which this statement is a reflection, the demands of a 1.5 percent now, rising at 3 percent in 2015.
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