New Mexico § 62-13-13.1 - Renewable energy distributed generation facilities; owners and operators not public utilities

§ 62-13-13.1. Renewable energy distributed generation facilities; owners and operators not public utilities

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Public Utility Act to the contrary,

a person not otherwise a public utility shall not be deemed to be a public utility

subject to the jurisdiction, control or regulation of the commission and the provisions

of the Public Utility Act solely because the person owns or controls all or any part

of any renewable energy distributed generation facility that: (1) is located on the host's site; (2) produces electric energy used at the host's site and sold to the host or the host's

tenants or employees located at the host's site; and (3) shares a common point of connection with the electric utility serving the area

and the host or the host's tenants and employees served by the renewable energy distributed

generation facility. B. Nothing contained in this section shall be interpreted to prohibit the sale of

energy produced by the renewable energy distributed generation facility to the electric

utility serving the area in which the renewable energy distributed generation facility

is located. C. As used in this section: (1) “ host ” means the customer of a public utility who uses the electric energy produced by

a renewable energy distributed generation facility and occupies the site upon which

the renewable energy distributed generation facility is located; (2) “ renewable energy distributed generation facility ” means a facility that produces electric energy by the use of renewable energy and

that is sized to supply no more than one hundred twenty percent of the average annual

consumption of electricity by the host at the site of the renewable energy distributed

generation facility in accordance with applicable interconnection rules; and (3) “ site ” means all the contiguous property owned or leased by the host, without regard to

interruptions in contiguity caused by easements, public thoroughfares, transportation

rights of way or utility rights of way.