Spotting resiliency around Taos

These are the solar panels at the Eco Park on Salazar road. I was told these panels help supply electricity to the Eco Park (a high altitude soccer training center), which brings in revenue because people train there for serious competitions (because of the altitude). The state averages 360 sunny days a year and with some effort we can harness that solar power. 

The Taos Eco Park is earning its name, February 9, 2012 
JR Logan, The Taos News, writes:

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative celebrated the completion of a 60-kilowatt solar canopy installed in the parking lot of the turf field on Salazar Road with a ribbon cutting ceremony Feb. 1, 2012.

The array was designed to generate enough electricity to power stadium lights for three fields at the Eco-Park. The town has completed the first field, with other phases pending.

Ideally, the solar panels would store electricity during the day that could be used to light the fields at night. Power from the panels now goes into the co-op’s electric grid.

Taos Recycling center

Some people may feel the recycling center is limited in its ability to recycle different things and that it ships many things out of town to be recycled. But I think it is a great start in the ability to have residents of an area have the opportunity to discard potentially reusable/recyclable items that otherwise end up in the dump.

By Darah Spencer, February 2015