New Mexico Statutes Chapter 62. Electric, Gas and Water Utilities § 62-15-37. Definitions; energy efficiency; renewable energy

A. “energy efficiency” means measures, including energy conservation measures, or programs that target consumer behavior, equipment or devices to result in a decrease in consumption of electricity without reducing the amount or quality of energy services;

B. “renewable energy” means electric energy generated by use of renewable energy resources and delivered to a rural electric cooperative;

C. “renewable energy certificate” means a certificate or other record, in a format approved by the public regulation commission, that represents all the environmental attributes from one megawatt-hour of electricity generated from renewable energy;

D. “renewable energy resource” means electric or useful thermal energy:

E. “useful thermal energy” means renewable energy delivered from a source that can be metered and that is delivered in the state to an end user in the form of direct heat, steam or hot water or other thermal form that is used for heating, cooling, humidity control, process use or other valid end-use energy requirements and for which fossil fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed;

F. “zero carbon resource” means an electricity generation resource that emits no carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, or that reduces methane emitted into the atmosphere in an amount equal to no less than one-tenth of the tons of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, as a result of electricity production; and

G. “zero carbon resource standard” means providing New Mexico rural electric cooperative retail customers with electricity generated from one hundred percent zero carbon resources.