N.M. Stat. § 62-13-13.1
Renewable energy distributed generation facilities;
owners and operators not public utilities.
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Public Utility Act [Chapter 62, Articles
1 to 6 and 8 to 13 NMSA 1978] to the contrary, a person not otherwise a public utility
shall not be deemed to be a public utility subject to the jurisdiction, control or regulation
of the commission and the provisions of the Public Utility Act solely because the person
owns or controls all or any part of any renewable energy distributed generation facility
that:
(1)
is located on the host's site;
(2)
produces electric energy used at the host's site and sold to the host or the
host's tenants or employees located at the host's site; and
(3)
shares a common point of connection with the electric utility serving the
area and the host or the host's tenants and employees served by the renewable energy
distributed generation facility.
B. Nothing contained in this section shall be interpreted to prohibit the sale of
energy produced by the renewable energy distributed generation facility to the electric
utility serving the area in which the renewable energy distributed generation facility is
located.
C. As used in this section:
(1)
"host" means the customer of a public utility who uses the electric energy
produced by a renewable energy distributed generation facility and occupies the site
upon which the renewable energy distributed generation facility is located;
(2)
"renewable energy distributed generation facility" means a facility that
produces electric energy by the use of renewable energy and that is sized to supply no
more than one hundred twenty percent of the average annual consumption of electricity
by the host at the site of the renewable energy distributed generation facility in
accordance with applicable interconnection rules; and
(3)
"site" means all the contiguous property owned or leased by the host,
without regard to interruptions in contiguity caused by easements, public thoroughfares,
transportation rights of way or utility rights of way.