he New Mexico renewable portfolio standard requires investor-owned electric utilities to acquire 20% of electricity sold in-state from renewable energy sources by 2020. Of that 20%, at least half must come from solar and wind energy, and the balance must include shares from several other renewable sources, including distributed generation. Rural electric cooperatives are required to obtain 10% of their sales from renewable sources by 2020.105 New Mexico has regulatory policies that include net metering, solar easements, and interconnection standards, as well as a number of financial incentives that encourage renewable generation.
Oh, boy....
Our daughter lives in Albuquerque where she and her husband had a new house built with solar panels added to their roof. It took over a year for the utility to connect their solar units to the house / grid. Apparently there is so much newly installed solar in NM that it may be impacting the utlity’s ability to sell the utility generated power, they sure were in no hurry to hook up a fully working system. In combination with wind, likely a lot of excess renewable power during the daytime in NM but the utility has to maintain peak power available at all times - really creates some interesting problems.