NM Energy Cooperatives
Power generation and distribution in New Mexico involves a large number of actors, from PNM, the PRC and many rural cooperatives. This last category can be found at:
and a not very good map:
Here’s a list of coops taken from this website as of August 19, 2019:
Contents
Rural Electric Cooperative Members of NMRECA
To view each co-op page, click on the name below and you will be directed to the page with its contact information. If you need to talk to someone at the statewide office, please visit the Contact Us page.
- Central New Mexico Electric
- Central Valley Electric
- Columbus Electric
- Continental Divide Electric
- Farmers' Electric
- Lea County Electric
- Mora-San Miguel Electric
- Northern Río Arriba Electric
- Otero County Electric
- Roosevelt County Electric
- Sierra Electric
- Socorro Electric
- Southwestern Electric
- Springer Electric
Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperatives
Electric Distribution Associate Member Cooperatives
More information on America’s electric cooperatives see:
Electric cooperatives
Electric cooperatives are:
- Private, independent, non-profit electric utility businesses
- Owned by the customers they serve
- Incorporated under the laws of the states in which they operate
- Established to provide at cost electric service
- Governed by a board of directors elected from the membership which sets policies and procedures that are implemented by the cooperatives’ management
Community Choice Aggregation
Community Choice Aggregation is an alternative to the investor owned utility energy supply system in which local entities in the United States aggregate the buying power of individual customers within a defined jurisdiction in order to secure alternative energy supply contracts. (Wikipedia)
This Wikipedia page discusses Advantages and Disadvantages, see: