New Mexico Energy Outlook Summit with leading energy expert Dr. Daniel Fine to give keynote...

Join Albuquerque Business First for the 2nd Annual New Mexico Energy Outlook Summit. This Summit will offer business leaders unique access to energy insights that will affect your company in the year to come.

For more information on how your company can sponsor one of our events, please contact Tamra Fenstermaker at tfenstermaker@bizjournals.com or 505-348-8326. Event Information

The second annual New Mexico Energy Outlook will offer business leaders unique access to energy insights that will affect your company in the year to come. Beginning with a keynote by Dr. Daniel Fine, this session will focus on how the evolving landscape of the energy industry and the world’s demand for energy will affect our state and economy. The 30-minute presentation will be followed by a panel discussion featuring executives from the top companies in New Mexico's energy landscape. Moderated by Albuquerque Business First Publisher Candace Beeke, the panel will be driven by audience questions.

Panelists include:

Dr. Daniel Fine, associate director, Center for Energy Policy ConocoPhillips senior executive Ron Darnell, senior vice president of public policy, PNM Resources Regina Wheeler, CEO, Positive Energy Solar

Session highlights include:

The OPEC price war and how it impacts NM The price cycle for oil, natural gas and others, and outlook for prices Production capacity – where it is rising, where it is falling Outlook for employment in energy trades Impact of and future for renewable energy in NM Opportunities and challenges for the energy sector in NM as a whole How the energy sector will shape the broader economy

Interesting that this is announced on the very day I get my notice that PNM (Public Utilities of New Mexico - electric company) is lobbying to raise rates. The base rate just for having a meter is proposed to go from $5/meter/month to $13/meter/month. The proposed residential rate hikes are anywhere from 5% to 7%. It’s already damned expensive here for electricity. Gas not so much, but electricity is outrageous.

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