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MVEDA Elects New Officers
In its monthly board meeting of July 15th, 2009, the MVEDA Board of Directors elected new officers and board members for the upcoming year. New Board Chairman George Ruth of Citizens Bank of Las Cruces was elected at the June 17th board meeting. He replaces Immediate Past Chairman Bryn Davis of Sapphire Energy.
New officers for the upcoming year are:
- Vice-Chair - Gary Lenzo, First Community Bank
- Secretary - Dolores Connor, City of Las Cruces
- Treasurer - Kiel Hoffman, Pioneer Bank
- Executive Committee Member At-Large - J.B. Pruett, Northrise Ventures, LLC
Re-elected board members are:
- Clay Doyle, El Paso Electric
- Gary Lenzo, First Community Bank
- Gabe Ruiz, New Mexico Gas Company
New board members include:
- Jim Easley, Wells Fargo Bank New Mexico
- Stan Rounds, Ex-Officio, Las Cruces Public Schools
MVEDA is governed by a board of directors representing both the private and public sectors. Institutional members represent the City of Las Cruces, Dona Ana County, New Mexico State University, Dona Ana Community College, the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce, the Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces, and White Sands Missile Range. Private sector board members represent a wide diversity of business and industry. They serve 3-year terms and are elected by the board.
Renewable Energy Heating Up in Dona Ana County
The June 11th announcement by El Paso Electric and NRG Energy that a 92-megawatt solar-thermal plant will be built in Santa Teresa, New Mexico is the latest announced renewable energy project slated for construction in Dona Ana County. According to articles in the Las Cruces Sun-News and the Las Cruces Bulletin, the plant will be located near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry and Verde Corporate Realty’s industrial parks in Santa Teresa. The plant will use technology developed by eSolar, a California company El Paso Electric picked to develop a solar project for the utility.
The solar project announcement follows an announcement by R-Qubed Energy that it plans to build a $75 million biogas plant between Vado and Berino. The plant will convert cow manure from the local dairies into methane gas. The gas will be sold to PNM. Other by-products from the plant will include fertilizer, compost and recycled effluent water for re-use on farms. The announcement was one of the front-page stories in the June 5 edition of the New Mexico Business Weekly. Sapphire Energy’s $100 million investment in green crude from algae was also covered on the front-page of the edition.
