This is a presentation providing insight to the 2025 Garrity Perception Survey (GPS) on the topic of oil / gas and solar / wind favorability in New Mexico. The presentation is provided by Tom Garrity who was the keynote speaker to the Albuquerque Business First Energy Summit on June 12, 2025.
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Thank you to Sandia Pueblo and also to Albuquerque Business First for putting on today's event as well as the sponsors and congratulations Jennifer James on your new role. It's going to be very exciting to see you continue to succeed there. In 1997, the Gerdy Group embarked on a journey to help small businesses to be heard and large organizations to be understood. The firm has seen a lot of changes over those years. And we've had some amazing team members as well as some clients, many of whom are in the room, and I'm glad that you're here today. We've had the opportunity to represent the New Mexico trifecta, which includes hot air balloons, New Mexico green chili and Roswell UFOs, now being referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, UAPs. I think UFOs just kind of rolls off the tongue. We've also had the chance to work with clients in the oil and gas industry. We have a very established footprint now in the transmission and the renewable energy industry. And in 2011, in support of our four step process of research, planning, execution, and evaluation, we partnered up with Albuquerque. Firm research and polling to really find out who New Mexico residents trust, what industries and institutions they view as favorable, and how people access news and information. Our 2025 perception survey was conducted February 3rd through 16th. It included a statewide sample of 415 residents reflecting the United States Census. It has a 95% level of confidence...
