[NMSEA-news] NMSEA News, Events & Announcements
News from New Mexico Solar Energy Association
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Thu Feb 10 11:51:06 MST 2011
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/** FEBRUARY 15: SunPaper Deadline
* NEWS UPDATE! "PNM Withdraws Solar Access Fee"** */*/
* /**/NMSEA Members: "Regional Challenge" Science Fair Judges Needed!
/**/* NMSEA SunPaper Archives - Now Available Online/**//**/
* NMSEA on Facebook/*
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*_ANNOUNCEMENTS_
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*/*FEBRUARY 15: SunPaper Deadline*/*
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The deadline for the submission of advertising, articles, and chapter
news for the Nov/Dec SunPaper is Tuesday, February 15. If you wish to
submit an article, you should know that preference is given to solar
energy topics (PV, passive, technology, performance histories,
incentives, cost benefits, etc.), but we will also consider other
renewable energy subjects, as space allows. Please send submissions by
e-mail directly to rhermansolar at aol.com <mailto:rhermansolar at aol.com>.
(No .docx, please.)
*Advertising Rates*
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All advertising is in black and white, and photos and graphics must have
a resolution of at least 250 dpi in JPEG, TIF, or PDF format. Text ads
may be provided in MS Word (.doc) format (not .docx). Circulation is
typically 800 for the SunPapers. The size requirements and prices for
individual ads are as follows:
_Ad Size_
_Nov/Dec_
Full Page: 9½” H X 7” W $122.00
Half Page: 4¼” H X 7” W $66.00
Quarter Page: 4¼” H X 3½” W $36.00
Biz Card: 2” H X 3½” W $20.00
You will be billed upon publication.
Call 505-292-4375 for more information.
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/*NEWS UPDATE! "PNM Withdraws Solar Access Fee"
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Excerpt from ABQ Journal-Biz article, Wednesday, February 09, 2011:
/PNM Withdraws Solar Access Fee/
<http://www.abqjournal.com/biz/092154307253biz02-09-11.htm>
"Public Service Company of New Mexico has withdrawn a "solar access" fee
critics claimed would damage the solar industry in the proposed rate
agreement the utility filed with state regulators.
The original filing included an 8-cent-per-kilowatt-hour charge on
owners of rooftop-type solar systems installed after the new rates take
effect. But PNM agreed to take the charge out of the rate agreement
filed last week...
Solar energy advocates claimed the proposed access fee would set back
the growing industry and negate the credit incentives customers receive
when they install small solar systems. PNM said customers with solar
installations still depend on PNM for power at a moment's notice and
that the fee would recover the customer share of the investment needed
to maintain the system."
*Further details on this case will follow. Please reference the
complete ABQ Journal article & links below for additional information:*
“Policies May Retard PV Growth” by Randy Sadewic, NMSEA SunPaper,
January/February 2011 issue.
_www.nmsea.org/Sunpaper/index.php _
Full text of HB 181 (the 2010 legislation that enables the PNM request):
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/10%20Regular/final/HB0181.pdf
Full text of rate case 10-00086-UT filing at:
http://www.pnm.com/regulatory/home.htm
To see PNM's explanation of the need for the rate rider, click on
"Testimony and Exhibits," then Jim Mayhew testimony.
Position of Jason Marks, PRC representative for the Albuquerque Area: _
_www.nmprc.state.nm.us/commissioners/pdf/PNMRateCase2010.pdf
<http://www.nmprc.state.nm.us/commissioners/pdf/PNMRateCase2010.pdf>
The PNM requested “solar access charge” is mentioned in the last sentence.
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*/NMSEA Members: "Regional Challenge" Science Fair Judges Needed!/*
**
*NMSEA encourages students to work on SOLAR projects for The Regional
Challenge Science Fair, held **March 17-19, 2011, and** we need NMSEA
Members to help us decide the best solar projects! *
***Special Award judging will take place on Friday, March 18, 2010 from
12:00pm (registration) until 3:45pm** (close of judging; students
dismissed).*
*Please consider doing this fun and worthwhile activity! Put it on your
calendar for next month and reply to Jim Palmer (jdPalmer at frontier.net
<mailto:jdPalmer at frontier.net>) to affirm your commitment to the next
solar generation!*
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*/NMSEA SunPaper Archives - Now Available Online
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A selection of past SunPaper editions are now also available for
reference online. For more details, please visit the NMSEA website
<http://nmsea.org/Sunpaper/index.php>.
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/*NMSEA on Facebook*/
*New Mexico Solar Energy Association is on Facebook!
*NMSEA is now also using this site to spread the word about our
educational outreach, upcoming events & fundraising drives.
If you like getting updates on Facebook, please visit the NMSEA page
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Mexico-Solar-New-Mexico-Solar-Energy-Association/142681782410865?ref=ts>
and press the "Like" button!
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