The Program Administrator anticipates releasing the list of selected and waitlisted community solar projects for the New Mexico Community Solar Program on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The release of final rankings, previously scheduled for Tuesday, May 9, 2023, was postponed because of an Emergency Verified Complaint filed with the PRC by Lightstar Renewables, LLC, and NM Solar 4000, LLC. The complaint can be viewed here. Subsequently, the Commission issued an order instructing InClime, the Program Administrator, to review and rescore the bids in question and any similarly affected bids. The [...]

The release of the final project rankings for the New Mexico Community Solar Program has been postponed. The delay is due to an Emergency Verified Complaint filed by Lightstar Renewables, LLC, and NM Solar 4000, LLC, which is currently under consideration by the Commission. To review the Complaint, please refer to Case 23-00167-UT on the NM Public Regulation Commission's E-Docket System. Despite this development, InClime's presentation to the Commission will proceed as planned tomorrow during the specially scheduled open meeting. However, please note that InClime may not be announcing the [...]

On May 1, 2023, a tiebreaker event was conducted for the New Mexico Community Solar Program. The event was held at the New Mexico PRC in Santa Fe and was broadcast live on Zoom. Each of the 408 bids that paid the program application fee had a representative ticket that was drawn at random from a spinning raffle drum. To account for both current and future ties, as the discrepancy period has not yet concluded, all of the bid IDs were drawn rather than just those with current ties. Once [...]

We are pleased to inform you that you can now view the detailed scores for your project bids on the program portal. You have until May 3, 2023, at 4 pm MDT to review your scores and report any discrepancies to [email protected]. Please include the Bid ID in the email subject line to ensure prompt attention. Please note that we can accept discrepancies related only to information already submitted to the Program Administrator; no new information can be accepted. This step is essential to ensuring the fairness and accuracy of [...]

Individual project scores will now be available to Subscriber Organizations in the program portal on May 1, 2023, at 9 am MDT, rather than April 28, 2023, at 12 pm MDT, as previously communicated. Subscriber Organizations will have until May 3, 2023, at 4 pm MDT to report any score discrepancies to the Program Administrator. Any ties remaining after this date will be resolved based on the results of the tie-breaking event. As a reminder, the tie-breaking event will be held on Monday, May 1, 2023, at 10 am MDT [...]

To allow the Program Administrator sufficient time to review the high volume of responses to requests for additional information received this week, individual project scores will now be released on April 28, 2023 at 12pm MDT. The deadline for bidders to identify discrepancies with the Program Administrator is now May 3, 2023, at 12pm MDT. Project selections are still anticipated to be released in early May. To maintain fairness in the review process, all bids must have the opportunity to be reviewed with the same level of detail. While we [...]

We understand that Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) was an important source of financing for community solar projects nationwide.  SVB’s failure, recent instability in the banking sector and the risk that the scope of the current crisis will broaden, may impact some applicants’ abilities to fulfill their bid commitments.  Thus, we are making this communication to all applicants so that any applicants that have been substantially impacted by these recent events and any applicants that anticipate a substantial probability of experiencing such impacts in the near future have an opportunity to [...]