We meet every Wednesday Evening from 6-8 p.m.
at 113 East Logan Ave., Gallup, NM
Refreshments are served
The public is welcome and all input is valued.
PLEASE COME!
We will be following the progress of the Request for Proposals for a 10MW plant just published on the
City of Gallup Website
SEE THE WHOLE RFP HERE
http://www.gallupnm.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1023
December 2, 6-8pm
UNDERSTANDING THE RFP
December 9, 6-8pm
COST & TIMELINE
December 16, 6-8pm
CITIZEN PR
December 23, 6-8pm
GALLUP SOLAR BOARD MEETING
December 30
FIFTH WEDNESDAY POTLUCK
END OF YEAR EVALUATION
GALLUP SOLAR DREAM
COMING TRUE
TO SEE BIGGER CLICK HERE
http://www.gallupnm.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1024
SEE THE WHOLE RFP HERE
http://www.gallupnm.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1023
CPP
Clean Power Plan(s) Simplified
By Bill Bright, GS Board President
You may have heard about the US EPA "Clean Power Plan" released in August this year. But, like most people, you know little about the details, the significance to us in NM and how it could be carried out or be undermined.
Here is a simplified version based on my own attempt
to understand it:
1) the Plan would require a 32% reduction in
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions nationwide from
power plants by 2030 compared to 2005 levels
2) Each state has been assigned a percentage reduction varying from -7% to -48%
(NM is listed at -36%)
3) The Plan sets a goal of 28% electric generation
from renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal
& hydropower) by 2030
4) States have a choice between adopting
two kinds of state plans:
A) "emissions standards plan": imposing emissions performance rates on each power plant;
B) "state measures plan": measures that that might include a mix of standards and energy efficiency
and may include a regional cap-and-trade program;
C) states have a deadline of Sept. 6, 2016 to submit their details to the US EPA, but the EPA may grant extensions of up to 2 years;
D) states that fail to submit their own plan will have
to comply with a federal implementation plan.
5) The final Clean Power Plan includes a
"clean energy incentive program (CEIP).
This is a voluntary matching fund designed to
encourage investment in solar and wind projects
and energy efficiency projects in low-income
communities (like McKinley County)
A) the federal government will provide
matching funds for these;
B) the CEIP must be designed to reduce energy
usage during one or both of 2020 and 2021;
C) a state must have submitted its own plan
that provides for a CEIP;
D) the project must not be already under construction or in operation the date the state submits its plan;
6) Political uncertainty:
A) implementation and enforcement will be the responsibility of the next presidential administration
B) opposition is coming mostly from coal
mining companies and coal dependent states: Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana Louisiana, Ohio and
,West Virginia have either expressly said they will not comply or expressed doubts about complying.
Of course, this begs the question about the NM Plan
and what the prospects are for McKinley County?
But that's another article.
(if anyone has figured that out already, let me know).
DEMO AT THE DOG PARK
PHOTO ESSAY BY JACK NOFCHISSEY
Chris Chavez’s Green Technology students
from University of New Mexico-Gallup met early November 13 at the City of Gallup Dog Park. They assembled to demonstrate to the Mayor, the City Electrical Director, and UNM-G Executive Director how simple it is to install solar on City Property wherever there is a transformer and a meter.
Three 245 watt solar PV panels are ready to be mounted on the metal rails attached to the pressure treated frame fabricated by the students at UNM-G.
Instructor, Chris Chavez observing his students.
PV panels showing positive and negative leads.
Mayor McKinney watches as students make the
electrical connections.
Connecting the leads to the micro-inverter, on rail, to change direct current into alternating current.
Eddie Munoz, Munoz Solar, in camouflage, chats with Executive Administrator, Chris Dyer of UNM-G, hidden, and his wife and their black and white Scotties.
If this had been an actual electrical installation,
a City electrician would have hooked the solar array into the electric meter on posts to the right of the transformer, green box on the ground,
right side of photo.
Immediately after Demo at the Dog Park, the solar array, engineered by Ed Munoz with panels donated by Engineers Without Borders and Gallup Solar,
was permanently installed by Chris Chavez’s Green Technology Class/Fall 2015 at Habitat Home #1. Electrical savings will be published at a later date.
Click on this picture to participate in GALLUP SOLAR'S first Crowdfunding attempt...
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gallupsolar.org
