New Mexico pueblos and Navajo Nation get federal energy funding

NEW MEXICO — The U.S. Department of Energy is giving a financial boost to two New Mexico pueblos and the Navajo Nation.

A new energy development fund is granting $1.82 million to the Pueblo of Jemez for a geothermal project. Another $1.73 million went to San Ildefonso Pueblo for a new geothermal power plant.

The Navajo Nation received $2.5 million for a transmission project study in Farmington.

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