Fifteen-year PPA for 200 MW of PV in Mexico

Apr 20, 2020 01:43 PM ET
  • Portuguese power team EDP has actually safeguarded a lasting power acquisition contract for its 200 MW Los Cuervos solar plant in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. Neighborhood offtaker Ammper has actually accepted purchase the power.
Fifteen-year PPA for 200 MW of PV in Mexico
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EDP Renovaveis S.A. (EDPR), the renewable resource arm of Portuguese power utility EDP, has actually protected a 15-year power acquisition contract with Mexican electrical energy investor Ammper Energia S.A.P.I. de C.V

The offtaker will certainly acquire power from the 200 MW Los Cuervos solar energy plant that EDPR is integrating in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The setup is readied to start business procedures in 2021.

The project is possessed by the unique objective car Parque Solar Los Cuervos, S de R.L. de C.V. as well as is anticipated to rely upon 729,960 monocrystalline panels and also 79 main inverters, according to a record released by Mexico's Secretariat of Environment and also Natural Resources (Semarnat). It will certainly be linked to the Aguascalientes Power substation as well as will certainly inhabit a location of 565 hectares within the district of Aguascalientes.

Various other just recently authorized solar PPAs in Mexico consist of an offer protected by solar developer Buenavista Renewables Mexico in 2015 to market power to Zodiac Aerospace Equipo de Mexico. Mexican gas and also power distributor Ienova, a system of U.S.-based gas solutions business Sempra Energy, likewise just recently completed 3 PPAs.

Reciprocal PPAs are presently the only choice left in the Mexican large PV section, as the federal government has actually made a decision to put on hold renewable resource public auctions.


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