Exciting news from InClime, the Program Administrator for the New Mexico Community Solar Program! We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Coalition Of Sustainable Communities New Mexico to manage low-income customer outreach services. The New Mexico Community Solar Program aims to promote the successful participation of low-income communities by mandating a minimum 30% low-income carve-out for every project awarded capacity. The Program Administrator is eager to support meaningful savings to low-income households and is excited to partner with the Coalition. The Coalition was carefully selected based on its [...]

This is a final reminder: the New Mexico Community Solar project bid window closes on January 31, 2023 at 4 PM MT. To be considered, the bid must be submitted and the application fee paid by the deadline. If you have any questions, please contact the Program Administrator at [email protected] or at (877) 794-0109.

The Program Administrator appreciates continued feedback on Program requirements and issues the following clarifications. Further Guidance on Qualifying Business Arrangements Under Local Procurement Preferences and the Twenty-Percent Developer Bidding Cap Each bidder must disclose to the Program Administrator any plans to sell or transfer any ownership stake in a proposed project and provide documentation of any agreement in place to do so. When any ownership stake in a project is sold or transferred, the parties involved must provide documentation of the transaction to the Program Administrator. The Program Administrator will [...]

As a reminder, the New Mexico Community Solar project bid window closes on January 31, 2023 at 4 pm Mountain. For a bid to be considered, it must be submitted and the application fee paid by the bid deadline. The Program Administrator must approve Subscriber Organization and any needed Affiliate registrations before bids can be submitted under those registrations. Registrations submitted after January 25, 2023, may not be reviewed in time to submit a bid before the closing of the bid window. Please submit registrations as early as possible to [...]

The Program Administrator has been aware of potentially inappropriate market offers to qualifying businesses to obtain RFP bonus points for local procurement preferences (page 18 of the RFP). The Program Administrator wants to be clear that the qualifying business needs to have an ownership stake in the organization submitting the project bid through a legally binding partnership or joint venture to qualify for these bonus points.  Providing a qualifying business a fee to procure items on behalf of the actual project owner or running money through a firm without ownership [...]

The Program Administrator has released an amended Community Solar RFP and would like to thank the market for its feedback. Following is a summary of the changes: Local procurement preference: The local procurement preference criteria of the RFP has been amended to offer the opportunity to obtain a proportion of bonus points if the Respondent is a legal joint venture or partnership with an entity that qualifies under 13-1-21 NMSA 1978. Eligible Respondents will receive bonus points calculated based on the qualifying entity’s ownership percentage and the proportion of the [...]

Today, December 1, 2022 at 9 AM Mountain Time, the New Mexico Community Solar portal will open for project bids. The Bid window will remain open until January 31st, 4 PM Mountain Time. Bid Logistics: To register your organization and submit a bid, please click here. You can also access the New Mexico Community Solar Program’s portal by visiting www.csnewmexico.com -> clicking Login on the upper right, -> enter new credentials. Participation in the New Mexico Community Solar Program takes place through Subscriber Organizations. Each project bid and eventual project [...]

InClime, the Program Administrator for the New Mexico Community Solar Program, hosted a virtual pre-bid conference on November 17, 2022, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Mountain Standard Time. The pre-bid conference addressed the New Mexico Community Solar Project RFP, the program process and timeline, and questions about the program and RFP. The RFP was released on November 3, 2022, and is available for download on the Program website at https://csnewmexico.com/subscriber-organizations/ (click the + next to the Project Selection subheading). Thank you those who attended. We are thrilled to [...]