A. Receipts from selling wind generation equipment or solar generation equipment to a government for the purpose of installing a wind or solar electric generation facility may be deducted from gross receipts.

B. The deduction allowed pursuant to this section shall not be claimed for receipts from an expenditure for which a taxpayer claims a credit pursuant to Section 7-2-18.25, 7-2A-25 or 7-9G-2 NMSA 1978.

C. As used in this section:

(1) "government" means the United States or the state or a governmental unit or a subdivision, agency, department or instrumentality of the federal government or the state;

(2) "related equipment" means transformers, circuit breakers and switching and metering equipment used to connect a wind or solar electric generation plant to the electric grid;

(3) "solar generation equipment" means solar thermal energy collection, concentration and heat transfer and conversion equipment; solar tracking hardware and software; photovoltaic panels and inverters; support structures; turbines and associated electrical generating equipment used to generate electricity from solar thermal energy; and related equipment; and

(4) "wind generation equipment" means wind generation turbines, blades, nacelles, rotors and supporting structures used to generate electricity from wind and related equipment.

History: Laws 2002, ch. 37, § 8; 2010, ch. 77, § 2; 2010, ch. 78, § 2.

The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, in the catchline, after "wind", deleted "energy" and added "and solar" and after "sales to", deleted "government agencies" and added "governments"; in Subsection A, after "selling wind generation", deleted "nacelles, rotors or related equipment to the United States or New Mexico or any governmental unit or subdivision, agency, department or instrumentality thereof, if such equipment is installed on a supporting structure" and added "equipment or solar generation equipment to a government for the purpose of installing a wind or solar electric generation facility"; and added Subsections B and C.

Duplicate laws. — Laws 2010, ch. 77, § 2 and Laws 2010, ch. 78, § 2 enacted identical amendments to this section. The section was set out as amended by Laws 2010, ch. 78, § 2. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.