Valverde Energy Sponsors African Music Performances!
Valverde Energy is a proud sponsor of the Roots+Wires African Music Showcase series in Taos this month! Please stop in at the Taos Mesa Brewing Company this Wednesday, April 24 for an 8pm performance by Tinariwen–LIVE from the Sahara desert! Visit Live Taos for more information…
Read MoreNew Mexico Solar Eclipse!
The moon passed between sun and earth last Sunday, casting a perfectly aligned shadow across a band of New Mexico stretching diagonally from Farmington to Roswell. According to the NASA website, a 90% alignment of the annular eclipse would be viewable in Taos. One hundred percent sounded much better to us, so we made a day trip of it, heading to Cochiti Lake, which turned out to the perfect spot for viewing the Ring of Fire. Severe eye damage, including blindness, can result from looking straight into the sun–whether eclipsed of not–for long periods of time. Our first thought was to look...
Read MoreLarry Mapes & NABCEP @ the Renewable Energy Forum
The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) invited Larry Mapes to participate in a panel discussion during the American Solar Energy Society’s (ASES) World Renewable Energy Forum, held in Denver from May 13-17 of this year. The agenda–to discuss the importance of becoming a NABCEP certified solar installer. Mr. Mapes serves on the NABCEP Solar Thermal Task Committee which certifies solar thermal and solar PV installers for North America. Fellow panel members included NABCEP Executive Director, Ezra Auerback; Blake Jones of Namste Solar and Andre Truitt of...
Read MoreSolar Energy Innovator, Larry Mapes in Taos News!
Taos News ran a feature article on Larry Mapes, founder and CEO of Valverde Energy, a solar company in Taos,New Mexico, serving the entire northern New Mexico region including: Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Chimayo, Espanola and Taos! We are both excited and grateful for the thorough and well written article penned by Susan Carpenter Sims. Here’s an excerpt: Larry Mapes, owner of Valverde Energy, became interested in the electrical trade at an early age. “My first word actually was ‘lights,’” he says with a chuckle. “I was always tracing wires or figuring out how this worked or that...
Read MoreValverde’s Solar Eclipse Story
Being amazed by the sun is a daily occurrence here, but we were awe-struck by this!