Reactivating Mexico’s large-scale sector

The Mexican electric power industry is maintaining its dynamism, despite a collective perception of inactivity stemming from a lack of information from the federal government. And renewables are barely mentioned in the National Development Plan for 2019–2024 drawn up by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Issue 08-2019

The Aura Solar 1 array, connected to the grid in 2014, was the first project in Mexico for which the country’s Federal Electricity Commission signed a PPA with a private company. Since then, more than 3.5 GW of large-scale solar have been installed in Mexico.

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