This is a list of

electricity-generating Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery (transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its storag ...

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many p ...

s in the U.S. state of

New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...

, sorted by type and name. In 2020, New Mexico had a total summer capacity of 9,098 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 34,076 GWh. The corresponding electrical energy generation mix in 2021 was 35.5% coal, 28.4% natural gas, 30.2% wind, and 5% solar PV. Petroleum, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric each generated less than a 0.5% share. Small-scale solar including customer-owned photovoltaic panels delivered an additional net 462 GWh to New Mexico's electricity grid in 2021. This was about one-quarter of the amount generated by the state's utility-scale photovoltaic plants. New Mexico hosts the nation's only long-term underground repository for waste from nuclear weapons research and production, the

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 ...

near Carlsbad. Extraction of the state's nearby

Permian Basin The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleoz ...

oil reserves for transportation and other uses rose to the nation's third highest, contributing 6% of total U.S. production in 2018. New Mexico's oil extraction included the flaring of over 35 billion cubic feet of

associated petroleum gas Associated petroleum gas (APG), or associated gas, is a form of natural gas which is found with deposits of petroleum, either dissolved in the oil or as a free "gas cap" above the oil in the reservoir. The gas can be utilized in a number of ways a ...

in each of the years 2018 and 2019. This amount of wasted natural gas could have generated about 5,000 GWh of electrical energy, an amount equal to 14% of the state's total annual generation.

Fossil-fuel power stations

Data from the

U.S. Energy Information Administration The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and publ ...

serves as a general reference.

Coal

Petroleum

Natural gas

Renewable power stations

Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.

Geothermal

Biomass

Hydroelectric

Solar photovoltaic

Wind

Storage power stations

Battery storage

References

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