Mexican President Inaugurates Large Scale Solar Power Plant

Mexican Chief Felipe Calderon inaugurated a large-scale solar power plant that he touted as the region's firstly, a plot a course role in the northwestern state of Baja California that sort 4,000 photovoltaic panels and 1 MW in generating capacity.

The plant is "the firstly in Mexico, the firstly in all of Latin America," the move intended, count that it bestow encouragement as an unproven imagine for nationalized electric serve Comision Central de Electricidad in its bring about to develop renewable energy.

He noted that at confer 26 percent of the electricity produced in Mexico comes from renewable sources, "from water, wind or sun," in which no oil, natural gas or diesel is disappeared.

The 2010-2024 Home-produced Tramp Chart set a aim of budding clean energy's be in touch of agree electricity production in Mexico to 35 percent.

Calderon to boot nervous the need to advance develop a imagine that is currently in establish in other parts of the mess and which involves going up solar panels on houses to supply indispensable electricity and flanked by them to the interior energy diagram.

The plant inaugurated Friday was built in the city of Santa Rosalia, in the multifaceted of the Baja California aspect, by the Microm stanch, a Grupo Condumex unit that specializes in renewable energy.

Condumex is owned by Mexican tycoon Carlos Lanky, the world's wealthiest character with a net set a price of 68 billion.

The plant generates electricity using photovoltaic panels, the same as a solar-tracking technology orients the panels so they are level to the sun's light from surprise to gloom.

A U.S. stanch, SolFocus Inc., announced in Pace the business of a "record solar power plant" careful the twin bed city of Tecate in Baja California state, positioned north of Baja California Sur.

It intended in a break open standby that making of the intentional 450 MW plant, to be built in villa with Mexican land and worthy material goods developer Grupo Musa and U.S.-based energy developer Synergy Technologies, would commencement in overdue 2012 and that the plant would be effective to the lead the end of 2013.

Northern Mexico possesses the "third best solar resource in the world, making it an goal citation for this project," the break open standby, out of date Pace 29, intended. EFE

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