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ABQ Conference Centered on Building Clean Energy Grid

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015   

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich is among those attending a conference in Albuquerque today that is focused on building a state-of-the-art clean-energy grid.

Heinrich, D-N.M., is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Southwest Clean Energy Transmission Summit at the University of New Mexico. Bill White, senior adviser for Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, the group organizing the event. said the overall goal is to have 80 percent of the nation's energy coming from clean-energy sources by 2050.

"We need to put a lot of renewable energy on the electric grid in the next several decades," he said, "and in order to do that, one thing we're going to have to do is build more high-voltage transmission."

White said solar and wind energy are cost-competitive with coal, oil, and natural gas now. The challenge, he said, is the lack of infrastructure to transport the electricity from clean-energy sources, often in remote locations, to urban areas.

It will cost billions of dollars to build the high-voltage transmission lines necessary to upgrade the electric grid, White said, but he believes the costs will be relatively minimal for the average consumer.

"In a typical electric bill around the country, according to the Department of Energy," White said, "about 11 percent of your electric bill pays for high-voltage transmission."

White said Heinrich, a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, is a strong supporter of New Mexico's clean-energy economy and building a clean-energy grid.

Details about the event are online at cleanenergytransmission.org.


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