The New Mexico Solar Energy Association

Solar and NM tax credit webinar by Athena Christodoulou
2020-09-26 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Denver) | NM
New Mexico is as much the Sunshine State as the Land of
Enchantment! Athena will cover the basics of solar, including
installation, how to take advantage of Federal and State tax credits,
and best practices to engage a reputable installer. FREE
Join us, Q&A to follow.
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National Solar Tour
2020-09-28 - 2020-10-04 | Online or Mail
The largest grassroots solar, renewable energy and sustainable living event in the nation.
For 25 years, ASES has organized and delivered the largest grassroots solar event in the U.S., the National Solar Tour. In light of COVID-19, the National Solar Tour will be all virtual this year. The tour is being extended to fit in virtual events beginning on September 28 running through the official weekend, October 3 and 4.
National Solar Tour week will showcase live programming focusing on electric vehicles, schools, homes, businesses, and community building through solar along with virtual tours of solar and sustainable homes, businesses, schools, religious institutions, and more.
Come check out solar in New Mexico including Santa Fe schools, NMSEA Sunchaser trailer, NMSEA member homes and electric, and solar art installations designed by teams of NM High School students.
Learn more about the National Solar Tour

National Solar Congress
2020-10-05 08:00 - 2020-10-31 17:00 | NM
Across the country, we’re coming together (virtually) to learn about solar and how to fight for better solar policies. Meet your neighbors in webinar sessions, coffee chats, happy hours, and other events.
Learn about solar tech and policies with engaging presentations from knowledgeable folks.
More can be found out at www.solarcongress.org

Electrify New Mexico On-Line Conference
2020-10-10 08:30 - 13:30 | NM
8:30 am -1:30 pm. Must Register. Agenda. NMSU event.
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Thomas Conroy Webinar Talk
2020-10-23 18:30 - 20:00 | NM
Tom has developed an economic development strategy for N.M. which exploits our states lowest cost (COE) of renewable electricity in the U.S. advantages (LCORE). Tom is now working to develop ultra-long duration (ULDs) pumped storage hydro projects with energy storage durations of 50 to 100 hours. He has developed associated power generation asset portfolio models that provide understanding of the
dynamics, economics, and reliability of no-carbon systems. Tom will speak on N.M.’s renewable energy cost advantages and pathways to decarbonize our electricity generation portfolio.

Battery Storage and Electrification of NM Transportation
2021-01-05 10:00 - 12:00 | NM
The Energy Transition Act of NM (NM ETA) requires the state’s retail electricity sales to be carbon free by 2050. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NM PRC) began meeting that objective recently when it unanimously approved a plan to replace the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, N.M., with 650 MW of photovoltaics (PV) and 300 MW of energy storage by 2022. These brief webinars will explore the energy storage and other technologies, and policies associated with them, necessary to achieve the NM ETA objectives, and to help inform regula- tors and policy makers, utilities, industry, and the public on the pathways to meeting them.

Presented by DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program,
in collaboration with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission and Sandia National Laboratories

Register Here.
Speakers:

After taking a B.S. from Fordham University, Dr. Imre Gyuk did graduate work at Brown University on Superconductivity. Having received a Ph.D. in Theoret- ical Particle Physics from Purdue University he became a Research Associate at Syracuse. As an Assistant Professor he taught Physics, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Architecture at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Gyuk became an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Kuwait University where he became interested in issues of sustainability. Dr. Gyuk joined the Department of Energy to manage the Thermal and Physical Storage program. For the past two decades he has directed the Electrical Energy Storage research program in the Office of Electricity, developing a wide portfolio of storage technologies for a broad spectrum of applications. He supervised the $185M ARRA stimulus funding for Grid Scale Energy Storage Demonstrations and is now partnering with the States on numerous storage projects for grid resilience. His work has led to 12 R&D 100 awards, two EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from ESA and NAATBatt. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the energy storage field.

Rick Fioravanti brings over 25 years of experience working with emerging energy technologies in both commercial and consulting roles. He has worked with major manufacturers, utilities, state/federal agencies, and developers to understand and deploy advanced energy systems. He currently focuses his efforts on electric transportation, EV infrastructure, electricity storage, and distributed energy resources – evaluating electricity grid impacts and linking the technologies to grid modernization, utility of the future initiatives. In his roles, he helped develop and deploy utility-scale and residential storage systems, advanced micro- turbines, fuel cells, and CHP systems. He has authored several papers on advanced storage technologies and has been cited frequently as a leader in his field. Mr. Fioravanti also was a founding Board Member of New York BEST (Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium) and served on their Board for five years. He received his M.B.A and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Kevin Tynan is the Global Director of Automotive Research for Bloomberg Intelligence since 2009. With more than 20 years of investment research experience, Mr. Tynan began his career as an equity analyst at Argus Research, covering the global automotive, auto parts and auto retailers industries. As a senior analyst, the “Financial Times/StarMine” ranked Mr. Tynan the top stock picker for the automobile parts segment in 2007. He was the No. 2 ranked automobile manufacturing sector stock picker according to “Forbes/StarMine” in 2004 and again in 2005. Mr. Tynan graduated from Saint Anselm College with a BS in business economics and is a member of the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He received an MBA in finance from St. John’s University.

Will McNamara serves as Grid Energy Storage Policy Analyst for Sandia National Laboratories with a focus on energy storage policy development at the federal and state levels. Will has spent his entire 23-year career in the energy and utilities industry with a concentration on regulatory and legislative policy. He has served as a lobbyist in California and has represented major utilities across the U.S. in numerous jurisdictions in proceedings pertaining to integrated resource planning, procurement, cost recovery, rate design, and the development of policymaking best practices. Will’s areas of subject matter expertise, in addition to energy storage policy, include distributed energy resources, AMI/smart grid, renewables, and competitive retail markets.

New Mexico State Legislature Begins
2021-01-19 12:00 - 17:00 | NM
Keep up on all the bills and committees through this link!

Sky Truth - Webinar at 350NM
2021-01-25 18:30 - 19:30 | NM
If You Can See it You Can Change It
SkyTruth is a conservation technology nonprofit using satellite
imagery and data to inspire people to protect the environment.
John Amos develops organizational strategy and partnerships, mentors technical staff, and provides remote sensing expertise as needed. He is an expert in the use of satellite images and other remote sensing data to understand and communicate local, regional and global environmental issues. Educated as a geologist (at the University of Wyoming for his M.S. and Cornell University for his B.S.), John spent 10 years applying image processing, image analysis, and digital mapping techniques to conduct environmental, exploration and resource assessment studies for the energy and mining industries and government entities.
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EMNRD Webinar Series: Grid Reliability, Resilience and Multiple Use for Batteries in NM
2021-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | NM
The Energy Transition Act of NM (NM ETA) requires the state’s retail electricity sales to be carbon free by 2050. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NM PRC) began meeting that objective recently when it unanimously approved a plan to replace the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, N.M., with 650 MW of photovoltaics (PV) and 300 MW of energy storage by 2022. These brief webinars will explore the technical requirements and other measures necessary to achieve the NM ETA objectives, and to help inform regulators and policy makers, utilities, industry, and the public on the pathways to meeting them.
This is a series of four, two-hour webinars, 10 am – noon, on the second Tuesday of every month starting in November (see below). Presenters and panelists will be experts from the national labs, PNM, the State of NM, the energy storage and renewable energy industry, and others, with emphasis on how similar objectives are being pursued in other states.

Date / Time
February 09, 2021 |10:00am-12:00pm
Location
Virtual Webinar

Register here.

Webinar: Making the Most of New Mexico's Clean Energy Transition
2021-02-13 14:00 - 15:00 | NM
Speaker: Seth Blumsack, Professor of Energy Policy and Economics, Santa Fe Institute and Penn State University
New Mexico has enacted one of the most aggressive targets in the U.S. to achieve a zero-carbon electricity grid, the Energy Transition Act. There is a lot of work to come in order to achieve this goal, but simply meeting the targets set by the Energy Transition Act leaves a lot of potential value on the table, in terms of clean energy achievement and leveraging clean energy policy for economic development. Dr. Blumsack will discuss a recent Santa Fe Institute workshop report that discusses strategies to achieve renewable electricity goals at the maximum possible benefit, and to use decarbonization in the power grid to achieve broader clean energy gains.
FREE Q&A to follow.
Seth Blumsack is on the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute, and is Professor of Energy Policy and Economics and International Affairs in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University. He also directs Penn State’s interdisciplinary Center for Energy Law and Policy. Dr. Blumsack holds a B.A. in math and economics from Reed College, an M.S. in economics and a Ph.D. in engineering and public policy, both from Carnegie-Mellon. He has studied regulation and technology transition in the electricity industry for twenty-five years.

Turn off the Gas
2021-02-22 18:30 - 20:00 | NM
Transitioning to an all-electric home is the wave of the future and a climate imperative. So, want to get off propane or natural gas heating? Find out how you can use the latest electric heat pump technology to replace your home’s gas furnace and hot water heater. Join our panel of homeowners who have taken the plunge! Monday, February 22, 2021. 6:30 – 8:00 PM. Zoom Meeting ID: 889 7179 2608. Passcode: [REDACTED]

ASES 51st Annual International Conference
2022-06-21 18:00 - 2022-06-24 17:00 | UNM Student Union Building Ballroom, 1, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, United States
NMSEA’s parent organization, the American Solar Energy Society presents…

NMSEA 50th Anniversary Banquet Dinner
2022-06-23 18:00 - 21:30 | UNM Student Union Building Ballroom, 1, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, United States
Yes, we were young once and we are bringing the receipts! Come to a friendly meetup of NMSEA members from the last 50 years – so many of us lifetime members – and we shall have a great evening planned with plenty of time for casual networking and seeing old friends, enjoying slideshows of years gone by, and hearing the best memories of our past presidents and a very special Passing of The Torch ceremony. We are grateful to have Albuquerque’s own “Metal Mayor” Timothy Keller to open the evening.
Special NMSEA friends from around the globe will be in town for this year’s American Solar Energy Society’s 51st conference, happening June 21-24, 2022.
You can order your Banquet ticket via the ASES Registration Page – just click the NMSEA Banquet checkbox if you don’t plan to attend conference.

Here is where the Student Union Building (SUB) is on the UNM Campus:

50th Anniversary SOLAR FIESTA!
2022-06-24 09:00 - 15:00 | UNM Cornell Mall, 110 Cornell St NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, United States
Come to our free and family friendly FIESTA! We’ll have music and lots of solar booths – solar installers as well as educational opportunities to learn all about solar cooking, heating and electricity. And we’ll have an Electric Vehicle Show from 9am to 1:30pm where you can see the latest in renewable cars! Parking is FREE at UNM in lot R/E [map]

Speakers Series - The talk your Co-op Does Not Want You To Hear!
2022-09-26 18:30 - 20:00 | NM
Would You Like Cheaper Electric Rates and Cleaner Air at Your Rural Electric Co-op?
FREE Zoom Talk by Luis Reyes, CEO, Kit Carson Electric Coop
September 26, 2022
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Zoom
Register for a free Zoom link by clicking here.

National Solar Tour
2024-10-04 - 2024-10-06 | NM
RSVP to https://www.nationalsolartour.org/

General Meeting at Juno Brewery
2024-10-10 19:00 - 21:30 | NM
General Meeting at Juno Brewery
1501 1st St NW, Albuquerque, NM
7:00 PM, Thursday, October 10, 2024
Featured Speaker: Dylan Connelly
Director of Commercial Solar Development for Affordable Solar
“Status of New Mexico’s Community Solar Program”
The Community Solar Act was signed into law in April 2021 by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. It aims to benefit individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and other groups who don’t have access to energy from solar installations. The program allows for 100 megawatts (MW) annually, totaling 200 MW of community solar development until 2024. What is the status of Community Solar?

Public Talk and Dinner
2024-11-13 16:30 - 17:30 | NM
SPEAKER: Bruce Warren Davis, Architect
TITLE OF TALK: A Brief Review of the Long History of Passive Solar Design in New Mexico.
ABSTRACT:
Davis will speak on the state of Passive Solar technology as it existed in New Mexico at the time of the founding of The New Mexico Solar Energy Association, how it stands in the world today, and where he sees it evolving in the future, here in New Mexico, and in the world.

General NMSEA Meeting
2025-01-18 12:00 - 15:00 | NM
This meeting will be at the Bachechi Open Space Center. Solar Cooking for Lunch. General Meeting Agenda to be determined.

Agrivoltaics Tour
2025-08-16 10:30 - 13:00 | NM
Visit Rio Grande Community Farm and Steve McWilliams Residence. Guided tours of Agrivoltaic Installations. See nmsolar.org for details.

Annual Meeting
2026-01-17 11:30 - 13:30 | NM

NMSEA Board Meeting, via Zoom
2026-01-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom

Tabling at Roundhouse Climate Solutions Day
2026-02-05 08:30 - 14:00 | NM

NMSEA Board Meeting
2026-02-18 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-18 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-04-15 19:00 | Zoom

Joaquin Karcher online, and live screening
2026-03-23 18:30 - 19:30 | New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87111
If watching on Zoom, Registration is required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/54o0EaWjRwqb8vvDcPV7tA#/registration

Electrify NM Conference
2026-04-09 | NM

RGCF, Spring Plant Sale & Solar Cooking Demo
2026-04-25 | Rio Grande Community Farm

Earth Day Festival
2026-04-26 | Balloon Fiesta Park, Albuquerque
