#New Mexico

Severe weather causes widespread outages for over 9,000 PNM customers in Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

Xcel Energy has been awarded three projects by the SPP to build HV transmission lines that will improve electric reliability in Texas and New Mexico.

The 90.5-mile and 44.5-mile 345 kV lines will connect the Crossroads, Hobbs and Roadrunner substations in New Mexico by 2026.

USA, New Mexico, Albuquerque: Pattern Energy Group announced it has started the full construction process of its Western Spirit Transmission line.

USA, New Mexico: The solar project with a price tag of up to $60 M was approved last week by the state’s Public Regulation Commission.

PNM announced an agreement with Pattern Energy Group 2 LP and the New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority to acquire a renewable transmission project.

US, New Mexico, Roswell: Xcel Energy has completed a multi-year $24 M project to boost the reliability and capacity of the city’s power grid.

USA, Arizona: Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and Southline Transmission will jointly develop a 579 km transmission line project that will stretch between southern New Mexico and southern Arizona.

USA, New Mexico: Under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a design-build substation contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Gardner Zemke Mechanical and Electrical Contractors of Albuquerque.

USA, New Mexico: A team led by Sandia National Laboratories, US Department of Energy research and development national laboratory, has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers.

USA, New Mexico: The heaviest load ever to be transported on New Mexico public roads will be a power transformer coming through the Four Corners this week, according to the New Mexico Department of Transportation.

USA, New Mexico: A 60-ton power transformer has been offloaded at the site of a new substation on Potash Mine Road as part of the Carlsbad substation upgrade and a $53 million transmission line project in Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico.