QUICK FACTS
- Excluding Federal offshore areas, New Mexico ranked sixth in crude oil production in the Nation in 2011.
- New Mexico’s marketed production of natural gas accounted for 5.3 percent of U.S. marketed natural gas production in 2011, despite a decrease of 16 percent between 2007 and 2011.
- The two largest coal-fired electric power plants in New Mexico, the 2,100-megawatt Four Corners and the 1,643-megawatt San Juan, are both supplied by dedicated coal mines, the Navajo and San Juan mines, respectively; electricity from New Mexico is distributed to consumers in Texas, Arizona, California, and Utah, as well as New Mexico.
- New Mexico ranked fourth in the Nation in installed solar photovoltaic capacity, which increased from 43 megawatts in 2010 to 116 megawatts in 2011.
- The State’s Renewable Portfolio Standard requires that 20 percent of all electricity sold by investor-owned electric utilities, and 10 percent sold by cooperatives, come from renewable energy resources by 2020; in 2011, renewable energy supplied 6.5 percent of electricity generated in the State. http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NM
Last updated in July 2012.
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