Editor,
Just a few short days ago the City Council set the city of Albuquerque up for the future by making a realistic goal of switching over to solar energy. Right now Albuquerque is getting a measly 3 percent of all of our energy coming from solar energy and the change put forth will put us at 25 percent by the year 2025.
This is really important for Albuquerque and New Mexico to support so we can stop relying on expensive and environmentally destructive fossil fuels -- as a state, we are the second sunniest in the nation right behind Arizona, and yet Albuquerque is reliant on fossil fuels for the vast majority of its power. We have the best opportunity to lead the charge in switching over to solar energy in order to end our ultimately destructive reliance on the fossil fuel industry.
Hopefully we see more improvements alongside this, especially with big companies like Facebook investing in the solar potential that New Mexico has. It would be awesome to see Albuquerque lead the nation in something this positive so we can improve our track record that much more.
Patrick Gallagher
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