Energy Secretary meets with New Mexico leaders on transition to clean energy

SANTA FE, N.M. — The U.S. Secretary of Vitality was visiting New Mexico Friday, speaking in regards to the transition to wash power and reducing power prices for households.

At a roundtable held at Milagro Center College in Santa Fe, Sec. Jennifer Granholm mentioned New Mexico’s position within the transition to wash power.

“As we speak, that is about how we will have these public-private partnerships to essentially launch this chance in clear power,” she stated.

Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) hosted the roundtable with enterprise homeowners, and neighborhood leaders in regards to the transition to renewable power, reducing power prices, and creating jobs.

“I feel New Mexico is such a pacesetter, a pacesetter within the assets, a pacesetter within the labs and the brains of this, a pacesetter within the partnerships with the state and the schools to have the ability to make this occur,” Granholm stated.  “I feel what you have got right here is basically the key sauce for turning into a pacesetter for the nation in how to do that proper.”

KOB 4 requested Granholm what she and the Biden administration are doing to decrease the record-high fuel costs.

“We’ve referred to as upon a rise in manufacturing proper now from our oil and fuel firms, however the president has used the most important instrument in his arsenal which is releasing extra provide from our strategic petroleum reserve,” she stated. “So he’s referred to as for releasing one million barrels a day for the following 6 months to attempt to stabilize costs.”

That is the secretary’s second journey to New Mexico. Throughout her go to, she additionally toured Sandia Nationwide Laboratory.