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developer Dhamma Energy said a 554MWp PV portfolio it wants to deliver in Mexico has cleared a significant planning hurdle. The pipeline of three projects

of the top solar projects supported under Mexico’s now-paralysed auction scheme has been powered up, around two years after development got underway.

Mexico’s energy sector, the National Development Plan heavily emphasizes “Bailing out State-owned Producers: Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and

“Significant contributions from countries like Australia, Vietnam, Mexico and Egypt have inspired this renewed growth”, says Wolfe. “Expect

Storage Center in Texas - as well as projects in Arizona, Tennessee and New Mexico. The company was founded in 2022 through a joint venture of Redelfi, Altea

Mexico’s state-run utility and fossil fuel infrastructure need more time before the country can re-arrange the renewable auction it cancelled this year, a top official has said. The country’s delayed fourth clean energy tender is “likely” to still go ahead but only when conditions are “optimal”, energy minister Rocío Nahle García said at an event this week. Mexico assigns renewables a “fundamental role” in its energy transition, the government figure said as she addressed the Foro Energy Meet Point conference in Mexico City. The country, Nahle argued, will stride towards clean energy growth “responsibly” to ensure it meets its target to source 35% of electricity from renewables by 2024. However, the minister cautioned, support via further government tenders will depend on what the outlook is for state-run utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). Since left-wing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) came to power last year, CFE has staged a pushback against its obligation to purchase clean energy as the government offtaker. In April, the state entity cited AMLO’s “new vision” as it warned it could reopen PPAs it said it was forced to enter under earlier tenders, describing wind and PV power as “very costly”. The government, minister Nahle said this week, wants to ensure CFE has the time to beef up its own generation and transmission portfolio before a new clean energy tender is held. “It is important to support the state’s productive entity because they are the ones who will pull the other actors through,” said Nahle, a chemical engineer by training. 'More gas infrastructure' before tender can take place The minister appeared to link any future renewable tendering to further growth of natural gas. “If clean energy production rises, so must gas infrastructure to back that electricity,” she argued. Nahle’s cautious support to the renewable agenda echoes similar statements in recent months. Opening a utility-scale PV plant in August, she said clean energy can count on AMLO’s support. At the launch of Zuma Energía's 162MWp La Orejana, she argued the new government’s energy policy will not be “constrained, compressed nor inhibited”. It will, Nahle argued, be “different” however to the agenda of prior president Enrique Peña Nieto, who legislated for a sweeping reform to liberalise the energy market. Recently approached by PV Tech, Mexican operators urged developers to rethink negative pre-conceptions and tap into the country’s inherent PV potential, with foreign moves on the rise. “As ideological as the government may yet become, energy will be needed and solar’s costs are very attractive,” Marco Nieto-Vázquez, partner of Baker McKenzie Mexico, told this publication. “It’s time to be flexible, to listen beyond the show in the media, to realise that change does not mean opportunities are gone,” Nieto-Vázquez added, when contacted for a recent feature.

Puerto Penasco solar-plus-storage power plant marks an important milestone for Mexico's energy sector, as it is one of three solar PV farms in the country that is

Latin America. It claims to have 800MW of solar in Uruguay, Chile, Brazil and Mexico and a contracted pipeline of 1400MW. In June, Atlas Renewable Energy

to expand into new markets. GCL has also considered potential expansions into Mexico and Australia. Lower solar prices have boosted demand and China is expected to

and has learned a lot.”  Post-energy reform life in AMLO's Mexico The talk of Brazil’s PV potential did not blind interviewees from

with the growth of over 10 GW of solar capability in Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, Japan, Chile, the United States, South Africa and also

in a location of the Rio Grande valley in west Texas and also southerly New

added a Bogotá office to existing bases in Europe, Oceania, the US, Brazil, Mexico and others. Contacted by PV Tech, Cubico said the 400MW pipeline

Honeywell has confirmed it will supply Hecate Energy with an Energy Storage System (ESS) for a solar park situated on the Jicarilla Apache Nation in Northern New Mexico. When completed later this year, the 50-megawatt (MW) solar ranch will certainly be capable of supplying sufficient electricity to power up to 16,000 ordinary New Mexican homes for a year. The project will help satisfy the state's decarbonization goals.

Mexico's Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Guzman Energy for an 11 MW solar project with an 8.75 MW/17.5