Thank you for attending!

Based on the interest expressed by the members in earlier conferences, the NMSPE Board decided to put emphasis at this Annual Meeting on topics related to recent legislative bills, electrical issues of new technology and economic impact on New Mexico. After a careful search of the local and national talents, following is a list of highly qualified speakers that were selected and arranged:

1. Michael Lunn, Illuminating Engineering Society. Topic of his talk was “Networking Lighting Control Systems”.
2. Dennis Romero, PE, Public Works Director, City of Gallup. His talk was on “Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Progress Update”.
3. Gary Oppedahl, Vice President of Emerging Technologies, Emera Technologies. Topic of his talk was “Microgrids”.
4. Tom Fallgren, Vice President of Generation, PNM. Talk was on “Generation, Transmission, and Distribution: PNM’s Path to a Zero Carbon Emissions Future”.
5. Abbas Akhil, PE, Renewable Energy Ventures, LLC. His talk was on “Energy-Related Bills in the 2019 Legislative Session”.
6. Raj Solomon, PE, New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. His talk was on “Engineering-Related Bills in the 2019 Legislative Session”.
7. Tim Cummins, Robin Dyche CCIM, Bob Gomez, and Tim MacEachen CCIM, SIOR of Rio Real Estate Investment Opportunities. Their talk was on “Oasis of Opportunity Central New Mexico Rail Park”.
The concluding session was on “Ethics”. Arthur Schwartz, CAE, Deputy Executive Director & General Counsel, NSPE, traveled from Washington DC to discuss “Ethics Cases” in the last 2 hour of the meeting.

Annual Meeting was well attended by more than 125 members and participants.