LAS CRUCES — The New Mexico Spaceport Authority will get its electricity from Sierra Electric Cooperative under a new agreement.
Sierra Electric Cooperative will build a substation and a six-mile distribution line to connect the spaceport to outside transmission lines.
Spaceport America's executive director Steve Landeene says the off-site electrical system agreement builds on an earlier agreement signed in April 2008.
The cooperative's general manager, Steve Gee, says the spaceport will be a catalyst for new developments that will benefit the community and the state.
Spaceport America expects to have a 10,000-foot runway completed by next summer and a hangar finished by early 2011.
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