North America
March 26, 2019
Renewables | Solar Power
Visual Primer Series
EnerKnol’s Visual Primer – New Mexico Joins ‘Green Wave,’ Approving 100-Percent Clean Energy Goal
The Land of Enchantment shows that even fossil fuel-dominant states can go carbon-free, a prelude to the renewable ‘green wave’ that is starting to sweep the nation.
Fossil-fuel rich New Mexico may be among the more unlikely states to join the 100-percent-clean-energy club, but it did just that in March, in the strongest sign yet of the momentum building for pro-renewable policies across the U.S. New Mexico's Democrat-led House charted a course for the state to obtain all of its power from carbon-free resources by 2045, with intermediate goals of 50 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2040, following passage of the Energy Transition Act.
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