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New Mexico has the nation’s best DER interconnection policy: report

The state received high marks for its robust energy storage interconnection framework, frequent public reports on its queue and incorporating IEEE’s technical standard for DER interconnections.

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New Mexico earned high marks for its energy storage interconnection framework, which includes frequent public queue reports and adoption of IEEE’s technical standard for distributed energy resource (DER) connections. The state’s policy is praised for encouraging distributed capacity that can improve grid reliability and resilience. Vote Solar and IREC, two energy nonprofits, are actively promoting more distributed clean energy on the grid to meet rising demand from new loads. Advocates claim that distributed renewables are faster and cheaper to deploy than gas‑fired generation, which some utilities and hyperscalers are using for data center power.

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