<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For those on the list interested in this conjunction (and further to Richard's post last week), a couple of data points that may be useful:<div><br></div><div>First, Tom Bowles of the Governor's Office recently convened a summit on the future electric grid, and how New Mexico can work with the federal government to participate in this rapidly emerging area of development. So there's good potential for a fit between the state-wide ISBI initiative and related electric grid efforts, for shared infrastructure planning.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, the Santa Fe regional plan for renewable energy industry development (aka the TREE plan) calls for establishing a Smart Grid Center of Excellence with a micro-grid test-bed and demo facility. Santa Fe Community College, one of the TREE plan consortium members, is very interested in developing this expertise as part of its new Sustainable Technologies Center, which also calls for advanced telecom connectivity.</div><div>db</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc.</div><div>Santa Fe: 505-690-2335</div><div>Abiquiu: 505-685-4891</div><div><a href="http://www.BreeckerAssociates.com">www.BreeckerAssociates.com</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>