Alternative energy is a top industry in the Rio Grande Region, which is home to solar plants, clean-tech companies, a wind farm and the world's largest inland desalination plant at Fort Bliss.
The University of Texas at El Paso will soon be home to an incubator that will develop clean energy technologies for areas such as bioenergy, biofuels, efficient lighting, electric vehicles, geothermal, sewage recycling, solar, water purification and wind.
The Rio Grande Region is green and getting greener all the time, thanks to innovative and aggressive initiatives to conserve energy, from powering cars with cleaner fuels to keeping water consumption at an impressive low.