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Dossier · Who's Who
Sen. Ben Ray Luján
New Mexico's junior U.S. senator and a former chairman of the state Public Regulation Commission, with no statement, letter or floor speech naming Project Jupiter in the public record.
At a glance
- Current roles
- Earlier role
- Chairman, New Mexico Public Regulation Commission[1]
- Category
- Elected official
- Jurisdiction
- Federal (U.S.)
- Verification
- confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
- In the record
- 3 sources · 1 connections · 0 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP117
Key facts
- As chairman of the Public Regulation Commission, built New Mexico's renewable portfolio standard.[1]
- The record describes the HB 93 microgrid exemption as undercutting that renewable portfolio standard.
- A permitting-reform advocate who has urged restoring cancelled transmission to power data centers.[2]
- Up for reelection in 2026 with no Republican challenger.[3]
- Has made no statement, letter or floor speech naming Project Jupiter.
The record
Junior U.S. Senator for New Mexico (since 2021), former chairman of the NM Public Regulation Commission where he built the state's renewable portfolio standard — the very policy the HB 93 microgrid exemption undercuts. Sits on Commerce, Science & Transportation.
A permitting-reform advocate who has urged restoring cancelled transmission to power data centers, but has made no statement, letter, or floor speech naming Project Jupiter. Up for reelection in 2026 with no Republican challenger and only a Democratic primary opponent — a dynamic that could pull him toward the issue's left flank. His PRC background makes the silence on the microgrid loophole especially notable.
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