2 solar thermal power plants planned for Baja California Sur    

Mexico’s national authorities plans to put 800 cardinal pesos (US $42.8 million) to conception 2 solar-powered energy procreation plants for the authorities of Baja California Sur.

President Claudia Sheinbaum, who made the announcement during her regular property league connected Tuesday on with Energy Minister Luz Elena González, said that operation volition beryllium carried retired by the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).

It is not yet definite precisely wherever the 2 plants volition beryllium developed. “We are determining the tract for the onshore acquisition,” Sheinbaum said. “Our thought is to person everything acceptable to statesman bidding this year, if not, by aboriginal 2026.”

González said that the 2 50 megawatt star plants destined for the northwestern peninsula volition incorporated thermal retention capacity, allowing them to proviso powerfulness adjacent erstwhile the prima is not shining. 

“The nonsubjective is to fortify the energy proviso successful Baja California Sur … successful effect to increasing request successful this area” González said astatine the property conference. 

Baja California Sur’s vigor operation runs disconnected an autarkic electrical powerfulness grid, abstracted from the country’s main transmission network. Previous plans to conception an underwater cablegram to link the Baja California Peninsula to Mexico’s nationalist grid person been scrapped owed to precocious costs. Instead, the authorities decided to put successful the caller star plants to boost capacity, portion maintaining the state’s autarkic vigor network. 

Noting that the task is “the archetypal of its benignant successful Mexico,” González stressed that it aligns with the Morena government’s extremity to make 35% of Mexico’s energy utilizing renewable sources by the extremity of Sheinbaum’s six-year term, successful 2030. The plants are portion of the 2025-2030 program to fortify and grow the nationalist energy strategy utilizing innovative technologies, according to González.

“This [project] is precise important for the state due to the fact that we are astatine the forefront of renewable energy,” said CFE Director Emilia Calleja. “Very fewer plants globally usage this benignant of system.”

CFE already had plans to make the Baja California region’s vigor network, including renovating immoderate of its older plants. In March, the CFE approved the operation of the 240-megawatt Los Cabos Internal Combustion Plant, which volition tally connected earthy gas, for 272 cardinal pesos ($14.6 million).

Mexico’s vigor assemblage has faced respective challenges successful caller years, starring to dense reliance connected earthy state imports. Some estimates suggest that implicit 70% of Mexico’s earthy state proviso present comes from the United States. 

Greater diversification done the enlargement of Mexico’s renewable vigor manufacture could, therefore, assistance heighten vigor information implicit the coming decades. 

 With reports from La Jornada, Infobae and Tribuna de México