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Mexico should aim to nurture a national solar industrial ecosystem to ensure it captures the full benefits of the renewable technology, a top government official has said. Rocío Nahle, named energy minister after president Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected last December, used a PV launch event this week to call for a full solar supply chain in Mexico. At the opening of 162MWp La Orejana, Nahle said the country needs to focus on “national content” and set up an industrial ecosystem to ensure panels can be manufactured by Mexicans. The goal, she was quoted in a statement as saying as she visited the site in the Sonora state, is to ensure “everything” – innovation, technology, added value – stays in Mexico. Old auction winner is powered up in Sonora The minister’s statement came as she toured 162MWp La Orejana alongside Adrián Katzew, CEO of the developer – Zuma Energía, owned by private equity outfit Actis – responsible for the project. The installation began construction in November 2017, after reaping power purchase agreements with state-run utility CFE at Mexico’s second long-term auction. The plant, requiring a total investment of US$131 million, was bankrolled between American financiers Bancomext, Banobras, Nafin and Nadbank. The 353GWh-a-year park, built across 338 hectares, features 500,000-plus panels, 5,567 solar trackers and 55 inverters. It is designed to power more than 220,000 households. Renewables 'can count' on AMLO's support For Mexican solar, the ministerial blessing comes as the industry navigates an uncertain phase under the new government, with tender cancellations and question marks over old auction contracts. At La Orejana’s launch, minister Nahle said renewable projects both public and private can count on the support of López Obrador’s administration. The minister – a chemical engineer by training – acknowledged her government’s energy policy is “different” to that of its predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto, who legislated for sweeping reform. Different, she added however, does not mean a “constrained, compressed or inhibited” policy, but rather a will to ensure “order” and “balance” so that production and construction remain equitable.

for its expanded solar panel manufacturing plant in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. The $70 million investment has increased its annual production capacity to

the initial commercial operation of its 364-MW Atrisco solar farm in New Mexico, marking the company's largest project to date. Located outside Albuquerque,

MWp solar energy project found in Ojocaliente Municipality, Zacatecas State, Mexico. The solar plant will certainly make use of Canadian Solar high-efficiency

project is located in McKinley County, New Mexico as well as was obtained from Centaurus Renewable resource, its original programmer. DESRI has additionally

it as one of the main companies in the production of clean energy in Mexico,” the utility said. No further details were revealed about the project

of six solar farms with a combined capacity of 216 MWp in northwestern Mexico for USD 50 million. The portfolio, dubbed Jaguar Solar, is located in the

array will certainly generate an estimated $7 million in new revenue for New Mexico's public schools. " The State Land Office is open for organization as well as

CSP facility at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The project focuses on using sand-like ceramic particles that can stand up to

Service Company of New Mexico's (PNM) shift, sustained by power purchase contracts on 4 generation and storage space projects, additionally presents a barrier

organized by United States President Joe Biden, López Obrador stated Mexico is committed to accomplishing its 35% clean energy generation goal by

actually gotten the Arroyo Solar as well as Storage project, prepared for New Mexico's McKinley County, from previous programmer Centaurus Renewable Energy, also

all its residential items bought in the United States will originate from Mexico, according to administration. "This will certainly have a good impact on

this agreement, CITRUS is preparing to broaden its organisation offerings in Mexico specifically, and also in North and Central America generally. The firm's

skewed the power market in favor of personal capital at the expense of Mexico's state power companies and also consumers. The critics contest this, and