Report: Renewable Company Looking to Merge with New Mexico’s Largest Utility Dodged Rules on Wind Farms

April 13, 2021

Avangrid, a massive green corporation looking to take over New Mexico’s largest public utility skirted the rules when building two wind farms in the state. According to a report from New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission (PRC) the company, which is a subsidiary of a corporation based in Spain, is raising concerns with their actions. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports:

(PRC Staffer) Reynolds said early this month of the El Cabo project that Avangrid Renewables failed to gain approval from the commission for “location control” and right-of-way width.

Also on El Cabo, Reynolds wrote, it appears Avangrid Renewables “deliberately skirted the New Mexico statute” by stating it would produce a capacity of 298 megawatts of power. At 300 megawatts, the commission has control over the location.

On the La Joya project, Reynolds said the Avangrid Renewables subsidiary called Pacific Wind Development failed to file copies of construction permits with the commission and notification of when service started.

The commission said Monday the La Joya Wind Farm currently is not in service. It had been expected to start running late last year.

Staff with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission raised those concerns about the multibillion-dollar merger as hearings are set to get underway next month.

As we told you last Fall, this is the same green company who donated thousands to New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham less than a month after she traveled to Spain in October 2019.