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K it Carson Electric Cooperative in Taos already generates 100% of its daytime electricity with solar power, and now, it’s turning to hydrogen to help extend its renewable generation around the clock.

The utility wants to build a new, green-hydrogen production facility that would provide hydrogen to power up clean fuel cells that could supply electricity in the evenings, or whenever the cooperative’s solar and battery-storage systems aren’t generating enough energy to meet customer demand. It also hopes to build a second hydrogen facility to provide fuel for heavy-duty, off-road vehicles used in remediation work at Chevron Corp.’s old molybdenum mine in Questa, which shut down in 2014.

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