In Mexico’s first Clean Energy Auction, 11 solar projects were awarded contracts. Together, these projects will produce 4 million megawatt hours per year.
Project developers include:
The winning projects are from seven developers:
- Enel Green Power with 992 megawatts and 2.25 million Clean Energy Certificates (CELs)
- SunPower with 509 megawatts and 989,265 CELs (includes projects by local subsidiary Vega Solar)
- Jinko Solar with 241 megawatts and 502,713 CELs
- Recurrent Energy (owned by Canadian Solar) with 62 megawatts and 140,970 CELs
- Sol de Insurgentes with 27 megawatts and 60,518 CELs
- Photoemeris Sustentable with 29 megawatts and 53,477 CELs
As the auction was open to competition from other renewable energy projects, Mexico received bids for wind, hydro, co-generation, combined gas and geothermal projects in addition to PV. PV won 74% of the projects. The remaining 24% went to wind projects. No other contracts were awarded to other technologies. These additions will mean that Mexico will increase its PV capacities by 521% in 2016.
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