I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
In the midst of a fight with New Mexico regulators over a proposed 20 percent electricity rate hike, PNM Resources is also seeking a 10.9 percent rate increase on its customers in Texas.
The company is asking the…
The state Public Regulation Commission (PRC) has scaled down the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)’s proposed renewable energy procurement portfolio, which depended heavily on traditional photovoltaic solar electric facilities to meet state-mandated renewable energy requirements.
The…
A gas pipeline fire near the intersection of Golf Course Road and Paseo del Norte in Albuquerque Wednesday may have resulted from a short in an adjacent PNM electrical line, state Pipeline Safety Bureau (PSB) investigators suspect —…
The state’s largest provider of electricity wants to raise rates on its half a million customers by 20 percent, saying its costs have risen dramatically. But after state regulators said the company didn’t provide enough information about those rising costs, PNM took its plea to the state Supreme Court.
The state Public Regulation Commission (PRC) declared the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)’s electric rate hike filing to be incomplete last week, delaying approval at least until June 30, 2011.
The commission’s approval or disapproval of…
PNM filed a request last week for approval of another 21.2 percent hike that would take effect in April 2011. But two PRC commissioners said Tuesday they would not be open to accepting a rate hike settlement before next year. The Commission’s go-slow approach with PNM contrasts with the Insurance Division’s rushed weekend deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield—before public hearings on that company’s request.
PNM officials and gas workers were grilled Monday by Public Regulation Commission (PRC) commissioner Jason Marks and an attorney for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, over a potentially explosive 2008 gas leak at the intersection of Albuquerque’s Montgomery and Carlisle blvds. The leak may not have been the busy intersection’s first, and pipeline maintenance and corrosion monitoring lapses were widespread in Albuquerque, commissioners learned.
Fiesta’s Restaurant owner Dennis Carpenter is angry that he was not warned of the explosive hazard posed by a 2008 natural gas leak next to his Albuquerque cantina.
Carpenter wants PNM to be punished for pipeline safety
As it promised months ago, The Sierra Club on Thursday filed suit against the San Juan Coal Company and PNM, which operates the San Juan Power Generating Station, alleging that the dumping of ash and sludge from the power generating station…
Two projects in New Mexico won federal ‘smart grid’ stimulus money today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced.
But it’s difficult to tell how much of the money will actually stay in New Mexico. More than $4.7 million of…
More than two dozen state lawmakers have stepped into a fray over whether churches, nonprofits and the such can help generate renewable energy, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports today.
At the behest of Gov. Bill Richardson, the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department has filed a legal brief with the Public Regulation Commission that provides a “detailed analysis” of why small solar energy developers should not be…
