SolarSet builds off grid solar New Mexico homeowners, ranchers and businesses can count on: complete ground mount systems, wired and tested in our factory in Center, in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, before they ship. Choose off grid where utility service doesn’t reach, hybrid for battery backup during outages, or grid tie to make daytime solar power alongside PNM, El Paso Electric, Xcel Energy or a rural co-op.
Full-time homes, mountain cabins and casitas can be powered by a whole home solar system on its own ground mount in the yard, where wind-blown dust can be rinsed off the panels from the ground.
Cattle ranches on the eastern plains, orchards along the Rio Grande and chile fields near Hatch spread barns, shops and pens across wide ground. Our solar for agriculture page covers working land.
Lodges, trading posts and equipment yards past the end of the lines can use commercial solar systems as full-time power, and roadside businesses on I-25 and I-40 can lean on them to keep critical loads running during outages.
All three areas below fall within our free curbside delivery zone, which reaches 300 road miles from the factory.
Homes and land across Taos County, from Questa and Arroyo Seco to Ranchos de Taos and the open country west of the Rio Grande, below 13,161-foot Wheeler Peak, the state’s highest summit.
Homes and acreage from Tesuque and La Cienega to Eldorado, Galisteo and the villages along the Turquoise Trail, where a hillside lot may be miles from the closest line.
Homes and small acreage in Rio Rancho, Bosque Farms, Los Lunas and the South Valley, where hybrid systems with battery storage keep key circuits running through summer storms and outages.
Distance is the first reason. New Mexico’s rural electric cooperatives power close to 80% of the state’s land and run more than 61,000 miles of line, averaging just four meters per mile, according to the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Before you buy remote land, ask the co-op’s customer service team what a new line would cost and how long it would take.
Fire season is the second. On April 17, 2025, PNM carried out its first public safety power shutoff, cutting power to about 2,300 customers in Las Vegas during high winds and drought, Source NM reported. A hybrid system rides through that kind of shutoff on battery storage, and an off grid home never notices.
Climate is the third. The National Weather Service ranks 2025 as New Mexico’s second-warmest year on record, and Albuquerque got only 6.71 inches of precipitation. The north still turns cold: Taos averages a January low of 12°F, compared with 30°F in Las Cruces, based on 1991–2020 NOAA normals.
The state is building solar energy at every scale, too. Cleanview counted 111 utility-scale solar projects operating statewide in October 2026, with 3,142 MW of capacity, and New Mexico’s 2019 Energy Transition Act set a clean energy path of 50% renewable power by 2030 and zero-carbon targets of 2045 for investor-owned utilities and 2050 for co-ops.
For most off grid solar New Mexico projects, the system size depends on the property’s hardest season. In the south that is usually summer, when swamp coolers and fans run all afternoon; in the northern mountains it is often December, when days are short. Unlike grid solar systems, an off grid system has no utility to cover a shortfall, so we size the solar panel system and battery storage for that season.
A typical solar install is built piece by piece at the property, with racking, panels, wiring and electronics arriving separately. SolarSet assembles complete solar power systems at our factory and tests each one before it ships, so the work at your site is setting, anchoring and connecting the system.
To order, share the property location and what you need to run, or send a year of utility bills, and we’ll suggest a configuration. Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque get free curbside delivery, while freight is added for southern New Mexico, including Las Cruces. Setting and anchoring are available only in select areas, and we ship anywhere in North America.
Yes, but electrical work needs a permit from the Construction Industries Division or your local building authority. Homeowners can get a permit for their own primary residence after passing the CID electrical exam. Check county zoning, too.
It depends on how the property connects to the utility. Off grid solar systems run without one, a hybrid solar system stays connected and adds energy storage that covers outages, and a grid tie system works with the utility and has no batteries.
Yes, when the system is sized for the home’s hardest season. List the appliances and equipment the home needs, and we will match the panels and battery bank to them.
Each project is quoted for its property. System size, battery capacity, the configuration and freight to the site all shape the final number.
An off grid home keeps its power, since it never connects to PNM. A hybrid system moves its chosen circuits to batteries when the utility shuts off power, and the panels recharge them during the day.
PNM serves Albuquerque, Santa Fe and much of central New Mexico, El Paso Electric serves the Las Cruces area, and Xcel Energy serves much of the eastern plains. Rural co-ops cover close to 80% of the state’s land.
Yes. Delivery to the curb is free for properties up to 300 road miles from our Center factory, and SolarSet ships across North America. Systems arrive assembled and tested, and we offer setting and anchoring in select areas.
Tell us where your property is, which utility or co-op serves it and what you need to power. Then Contact SolarSet for a system built for New Mexico sun, wind and winters.
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