Northern New Mexico College

To support the development of a low cost solar energy program for Northern New Mexico College and surrounding counties.

The project funding will create a 10MW solar array on the college's 107-acre property located near El Vado Lake in Rio Arriba County. It intends to provide this energy to the local electric cooperative, and to major energy users in the region, to include potential stakeholders in Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, Taos, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Colfax, Mora, and San Miguel counties. Los Alamos Laboratory, the counties annotated above, local tribal governments, and others will be invited to benefit from lower

This request would provide funds for a fleet of electric shuttles and associated charging stations to support Northern New Mexico's branch community college partnership with five local public school districts (Espanola, Pojoaque, Mesa Vista, Chama and Jemez Mountain).