Public Service Co. of New Mexico (PNM)
Public Service Co. of New Mexico (PNM) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 106 power plants with 7.5 GW of capacity, solar the largest share at 2.8 GW. Its peak load is 2,602 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 2,602 MW
Capacity by fuel
106 power plants with 7.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Solar: 2.8 GW from 75 plants (37%)
- Wind: 2.6 GW from 12 plants (34%)
- Natural gas: 1.6 GW from 12 plants (22%)
- Battery storage: 535 MW from 6 plants (7%)
- Geothermal: 9 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Luna Energy Facility: Natural gas, 559 MW, New Mexico
- Arroyo Solar Energy Storage Hybrid: Solar, 450 MW, New Mexico
- Red Cloud Wind LLC: Wind, 350 MW, New Mexico
- Clines Corners Wind Farm LLC: Wind, 325 MW, New Mexico
- La Joya NM: Wind, 306 MW, New Mexico
- Atrisco Energy Storage: Battery storage, 300 MW, New Mexico
- Atrisco Solar LLC: Solar, 300 MW, New Mexico
- San Juan Solar I: Solar, 300 MW, New Mexico
- El Cabo Wind: Wind, 298 MW, New Mexico
- Tecolote Wind LLC: Wind, 272 MW, New Mexico
Planned and under construction
18 generators planned, under construction or testing, 2.3 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 1.1 GW
- Natural gas: 677 MW
- Battery storage: 358 MW
- Wind: 190 MW
States and provinces
- New Mexico: 106 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain