Sources of New Mexico utility-scale electricity generation, full-year 2023:[ 1]
Wind (38.7%)
Natural gas (35.2%)
Coal (19.1%)
Solar (6.5%)
Hydroelectric (0.3%)
Geothermal (0.1%)
Biomass (0.1%)
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of New Mexico [ 2] [ 1]
Small-scale solar including customer-owned photovoltaic panels delivered net 702 GWh to New Mexico's electricity grid in 2023. This was less than one-third of the amount generated by the state's utility-scale photovoltaic plants.[ 1]
New Mexico hosts the nation's only long-term underground repository for waste from nuclear weapons research and production, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad . Extraction of the state's nearby Permian Basin oil reserves for transportation and other uses rose to the nation's third highest, contributing 6% of total U.S. production in 2018.[ 3] flaring of over 35 billion cubic feet of associated petroleum gas in each of the years 2018 and 2019.[ 4] [ 5]
Fossil-fuel power stations
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.[ 6]
Coal
Petroleum
Natural gas
Renewable power stations
Lightning Dock Geothermal Plant Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.[ 6]
Geothermal
Biomass
Hydroelectric
Solar photovoltaic
Wind
Storage power stations
Battery storage
References
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