# Good Neighbor **Envir onmental Board**  Jeremy Turner, Executive Director Las Cruces, New Mexico September 8, 201 1
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# Overview  Overview of RET

A  LANL R eport  Development being Studied in NM  Power Network New Mexico

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# New Mexico Renewable Energy

Tr ansmission Authority  

## RET A was Statutorily Created in 2007 by the NM Legislature
 Can plan, finance, acquire, and ow n transmission and storage facilities  30% of the power on a RET A project has to be from renewable sources  Has the power of eminent domain  

## RET A Board Structure
 Six Member V

oting Board of Directors o Three members are appointed by the NM Governor, one by the President Pro Te mpore of the Senate, one by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the State T reasurer or his designee. o Additionally, the Cabinet Secretary of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department serves as an additional advisory, non - voting member of the RET

A Board.
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# Organizational Chart

NMF A Legislative Oversight Com mi ttee Steve Elliott

– Senate Pro Te m Appointee Robert Apodaca

– Speaker of the House Appointee Michael Emerson

– Governor Appointee Chairman Robert E. Busch

– Governor Appointee Jerem y T urner – Executive Director Angela Gonzales

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Assistant Director Joan Munsell

– Administrative Manager Beatriz Rivera

– Governor Appointee Mark Va ldez

– Deputy State Tr easurer Jodi Porter

– EMNRD Ex Officio Mem

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# RET

A’ s Ef forts  

## Issued $50 million in revenue bonds
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### High Lonesome Mesa - 100 MW Wind Farm in To rrance County  

## Senate Memorial 44 – Senator Ti m Keller
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### Required RET

A to coordinate with other agencies to develop a map with renewable energy resource zones, and potential transmission corridors  

## Los Alamos National Labs Report
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### Independent study that evaluated statewide transmission concepts, economic benefits and cost allocation methodology

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# RET

A’ s Goal for the State  Commissioned Los Alamos National Labs to complete an independent study to evaluate statewide transmission concepts, economic benefits and cost allocation methodology  The Study Analyzed  Two potential systems, looped vs. radial line upgrades, necessary to export 5,200 MW of generation  Upgrades on a 5, 10 and 20 year planning cycle  Economic benefits and cost recovery options  To tal direct and indirect jobs that will be created  Potential tax implications of each plan  Energy tax required to support each potential system 

###  RET A has entered into two MOU’ s that directly advance the build - out of the system identified by this study (Lucky Corridor, LLC & GS Global Infrastructure Partners II, L.P.) 6

## LANL Study

– Collector System Plan 1

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# Development Being Studied in NM  

# Transmission Development  

### Centennial W est – Line from New Mexico to California  RET A MOU  www .cleanlineenergy.com  

### Lucky Corridor – Line in Northern New Mexico  RET A MOU  www .luckycorridor .com  

### Southline – Line from New Mexico to Arizona  www .blackforestpartners.com  

### SunZia – Line from New Mexico to Arizona  www .sunzia.net  

### Tres Amigas Superstation – Interconnection of the three grids  www .tresamigasllc.com 8

# Centennial We st Clean Line
 3,500 MW from NM to CA  Overhead HVDC line  Approximately 900 miles  $2.5 Billion  Project Ow ner - Clean Line Energy  RET A MOU

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# Lucky Corridor  2,400 MW from Gladstone NM to Ta os NM  Double - circuit 230 kV AC line  Approximately 102 miles  $400 Million  Project Owner – Lucky Corridor LLC  RET A MOU 10

# Southline  1,500 MW

from NM to AZ  Double - circuit 345 kV

A C line that is approximately 225 miles  Improvements to approximately 130 miles of existing transmission lines between the Apache (AZ) and Saguaro (AZ) substations  $550 Million Project Owner

– Southline Tr ansmission, LLC., a subsidiary of Hunt Power, L.P . 11

# SunZia  3,000 - 4,500 MW from N M to AZ  Double circuit 500 kV A C line or AC/DC hybrid configuration  460 miles  Project participants  Salt River Project  Shell Wi ndEnergy  Southwestern Power Group II  Tri - State Generation and Tr ansmission Assoc.  Tu cson Electric Power 12

# Tr es Amigas  5,000 MW Superstation to interconnect the Nation’ s three grids  Underground Superconductor cable  Location

– Eastern NM, near Clovis, NM  Project Owner

– Tr es Amigas, LLC.

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# Power Network NM  RET A entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with

--- GS Global Infrastructure Partners II (GSIP) to jointly -------

--- develop a collector system in Central NM  GSIPcreated Power Network New Mexico LLC  Specific Focus on developing the NM Collector System Project  Jointly controlled by GSIPand RET A 

##  NM Collector System Project Details:  Approxim ately 200 mile long line  345 kV line with an initial carrying capacity of 1,500 MW  2 - year construction period with approximately 200 construction jobs (to be determined when construction takes place)  Financing will be secured by transmission agreements  Renewable development has the potential to exceed $1.8 billion

# Conceptual Routing

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# Contact Us New Mexico Renewable Energy Tr ansmission Authority

1516 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 **www .nmr**  **eta.net (505) 983**  **- 4458**  **jturner@nmr eta.net** 

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