Utility Engineer - Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)
Bio
Luis is a utility engineer currently based in Santa Fe working on a wide range of PNM electric utility distribution projects including solar.
Previously, he worked as a project engineer at the NMSU Southwest Region Solar Experiment Station (1998-2015), where he worked on renewable energy project implementation, technology research, and design and deployment of power systems. He provided technical assistance for Sandia National Laboratories, to the DOE/USAID Mexico Renewable Energy Program from 1998-2005. Luis has also implemented solar and wind energy projects in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. He conducted solar feasibility studies for utility scale PV projects in El Salvador 8.5 MWp and Colombia 20 MWp in collaboration with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. He conducted wind resource monitoring for Fort Bliss and NASA White Sands Test Facility, as well as in the Dominican Republic and Mexico. Luis conducted field instrumentation engineering for seismological studies in Algeria, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela for Western Geophysical from 1990-1996.
Luis is an electrical engineering graduate from NMSU.