Our Current Newsletters
August 2010
New Mexico Partnership Executive Outreach Event During Intersolar North America in San Francisco Well Attended and Successful. As a global leader in pure energy innovation, New Mexico continues to draw international attention to the Land of Enchantment...
June 2010
New Mexico Partnership Assists With 2 New Locates to the State Adding to Already Steady Momentum -The New Mexico Partnership is ending the current fiscal year with somep romising job numbers. The date, we sit at 2,304 jobs created; 764 of those jobs in rural New Mexico and 260 of those jobs were announced this month in Roswell and Albuquerque...
April 2010
Green2V Brings Solar Cell Manufacturing Facility and New Jobs to Rio Rancho, New Mexico - The State of New Mexico and the City of Rio Rancho welcomed a new solar enregy company who will spend $500 million over the next five years to build a 1million-square-foot plant in Rio Rancho that eventually will employ 1,500 and have an annualpayroll of $64 Million.
March 2010
The New Mexico Partnership started off the new year with three amazing announcements— all in rural New Mexico. "These 3 rural announcements are great examples of what it takes to win a project in challenging economic times. All 3 of these projects took more than a year to complete. It took patience, follow through, diligence and a healthy team to keep moving things forward," stated Clark Krause, President & CEO of the New Mexico Partnership, "I would especially like to thank Governor Richardson, the New Mexico Legislature, EDD Secretary Mondragon, and the NM Partnership Chairman, Raymond Mondragon for continuing to support and work toward job growth in New Mexico."
December 2009
On entering the modern, eco-designed foyer of Hewlett-Packard Company, complete with recycled wood paneling, tons of natural lighting, and open floor plans leading off into the distance, it is hard to imagine that one year ago, New Mexican wildlife took refuge under wild sagebrush where a glass-lined conference room now sits, its door invitingly cracked open.
November 2009
As New Mexico rapidly becomes a global leader in pure energy innovation, we continue to draw international attention to the Land of Enchantment. The New Mexico Partnership has taken actions and adopted substantive policy measures to stimulate development of solar power projects throughout the state. Those initiatives as well as an aggressive business recruiting strategy have effectively positioned the state as a focal point for this rapidly emerging industry.
July 2009
In our ongoing mission to create jobs and boost New Mexico’s fastgrowing clean energy sector, the New Mexico Partnership exhibited at the PV America Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia during June 8-10. This was our first time attending PV America. On the first day at the booth, we quickly found that New Mexico was being well represented with companies such as Emcore and SCHOTT Solar exhibiting and representatives from Sandia National Laboratories in attendance. We formed a New Mexico coalition and worked together to help market the state during our three days at the show.
May 2009
On May 11, SCHOTT Solar ceremonially inaugurated its state-of-theart manufacturing facility for products used to generate solar power, one year after breaking-ground on the project’s first-phase. The 200,000 square-foot facility represents an initial investment of over $100 million USD in the Albuquerque region from the global SCHOTT Solar group. SCHOTT has created 350 jobs at the new facility, which will continue to ramp up production throughout the summer.
April 2009
Last week Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Fred Mondragón announced that Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. has signed a lease on an 86,550-square-foot facility located in the Verde Binational Park in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company employs trained professionals in 170 offices and 12 international service centers, located on six continents.