The Power To Make Life Better, Together

Only two in five consumers believe they use more electricity than five years ago, according to a recent national survey.

• Power use actually increased 10 percent from 2002 to 2007.
• Average PNM residential customers use 15 percent more power in 2009 than they did in 1999.

More power plants will be needed to keep up, if this trend continues. That will add to already-rising costs.

Unless those plants use renewable resources like sun or wind, they would increase air emissions.

We have a two-pronged approach to help keep this from happening – but it depends on your help.

Efficiency and conservation

We don't want to build more power plants that run on fossil fuels. The less power we all use, the fewer new plants there will need to be.

Energy efficiency programs are available to both home and business customers:

• Get $30 to recycle a used, working refrigerator or freezer.
• Get discounted CFL bulbs - the twisty ones - from retailers.
  • Replace your old-fashioned bulbs with them and save about $44 a year.

See how you may be able to earn a refrigerator rebate
Get discounted CFL bulbs

Three new programs are available to business customers, including refrigerator recycling and retrofit and construction rebates.

Learn more about business customer rebates

Renewable energy

This fall we will be requesting permission to build new wind and solar facilities in New Mexico.

These will make our electricity "pool" cleaner and benefit the environment, along with creating green jobs.

Join us

No one can help us meet the energy challenges of the future better than you, our customers.

Your contribution comes in how much power you use and, even more importantly, the power you don't use. That's how we make our energy future better, together.