PNM公司計劃增加太陽能設(shè)施適用范圍，新墨西哥州政府對這個提議給了綠燈。

另外，州委員會會意在提高讓居民區(qū)和商業(yè)客戶對太陽能的使用，這樣會給新墨西哥州提供多種能源供應(yīng)，新墨西哥州法律規(guī)定PNM公司和其他電力應(yīng)用設(shè)施公司將會擁有其產(chǎn)能的10%的所有權(quán)。

Plans to add utility-scale solar power facilities by PNM Resources’ New Mexico utility, PNM, were unanimously approved yesterday by state regulators.

The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission approved 22 megawatts of utility-scale solar power facilities that will involve various sites throughout New Mexico. Regulators capped the facilities’ cost at $101.7 million. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2011. PNM plans to file for recovery of those costs through a rate rider that would be implemented one year after new PNM rates, which currently are under consideration, are effective.

Costs incurred by a New Mexico utility that are consistent with an approved renewable energy plan are deemed reasonable and recoverable in rates under state law. The solar addition to PNM’s rate base and subsequent recovery is expected add approximately $0.03 to $0.05 to earnings per diluted share in 2012.

In addition, the Commission modified other residential and business customer initiatives that could add solar power to New Mexico’s energy mix. New Mexico law requires PNM and other electric utilities to have 10 percent of the energy they generate come from renewable resources such as wind and solar by 2011.