Posts Tagged ‘Otero County’

SunEdison Presentation

On Monday, March 7 representatives from SunEdison held a pre-bid briefing for local contractors and other vendors to discuss opportunities for local businesses to be involved in constructing the company’s 12MW solar power project at the West Mesa Industrial Park.

SunEdison, one of the largest solar energy providers in North America, will begin construction of the solar power generation facility in Las Cruces in June, 2011 with a completion date of December, 2011. The project is expected to require 230 construction jobs for a 6-9 month period. Construction of an additional 12MW project to be located in Otero County will commence immediately after completion of the Las Cruces project.

Local opportunities include:

• Electrical – electrical contractors/electricians
• Civil – grading/access road work/surveyors/concrete work/trenching/underground boring
• Mechanical – tracker/racking assembly/welding/fencing
• Other – re-vegetation/sanitation/water & temporary facilities

Local contractors and vendors in these and other specialties are encouraged to complete the attached SunEdison Vendor Profile and return it to MVEDA by e-mail to sandi@mveda.com or by fax to (575) 523-5707. The responses will be forwarded to SunEdison.  The SunEdison presentation can be downloaded by clicking on the graphic.

Release courtesy of the International Business Accelerator

Santa Teresa, New Mexico – JBC International, LLC, a regional plastics recycling company, has established operations in Chaparral, New Mexico. This five-year-old company currently has recycling operations in Juarez, Mexico. Its new plant in Chaparral will collect plastic products and recycle them into usable production inputs for industrial applications. The company plans to hire approximately 12 employees for the Chaparral plant.

According to JBC International CEO Carlos Gonzalez, “Our new Chaparral location is conveniently located next to the industrial bases in El Paso, Juarez, and southern New Mexico. We were impressed with all of the support we received from the New Mexico Economic Development Partnership, the Otero County Economic Development Council, and the Western New Mexico Small Business Development Center. These entities were all extremely helpful in providing business environment, workforce, and economic development incentive information.”

The company has purchased the land and constructed a building for its operations in the Otero County side of Chaparral. It expects to begin operations by early 2011.

JBC International is a plastics recycling company that recycles over 12,000 lbs of plastic daily. Other scrap materials the company recycles include pallet, cardboard, and metal. The company purchases the material, processes it for industrial applications, and sells it to buyers in the region

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is holding additional public scoping meetings to seek input and discuss with the public a proposed study expansion area for the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project.

Three open-house public scoping meetings along the expanded study area will be held in the following New Mexico communities. All meetings will be from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

Las Cruces, October 26, 2009 – Court Youth Center, 402 West Court

Alamogordo, October 27, 2009 -First National Bank, 414 Tenth Street

Chaparral, October 28, 2009 -Chaparral High School, 800 County Line Drive

The project is a proposed 460 mile high capacity 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line (or two parallel lines) across New Mexico and Arizona. The project proponent, SunZia Transmission LLC, is proposing to transport electricity generated by power generation resources, including primarily renewable resources, to western power markets and load centers. The BLM is the lead Federal agency which will oversee the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that will identify environmental impacts and evaluate alternatives for the project.

Numerous comments during the initial public scoping meetings included requests to consider alternative routes. Suggested transmission line corridors for consideration in New Mexico are potential routes south of the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in Dona Ana County and along the eastern boundary of the WSMR in Otero and Lincoln counties. These corridors in the New Mexico area could provide alternative routes between the Midpoint Substation site near Deming, and the proposed SunZia-East Substation termination site in Lincoln County

A map of the proposed expansion area and more information regarding the project are available on BLM-SunZia Transmission Line Project website.