Mexico keeps leading the green revolution and now its government has set an ambitious agenda that expects to produce 33% of the country’s installed electricity capacity from renewable sources by 2018.
The Mexican Secretary of Energy, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell said that “we are proposing to expand the role of renewable energy to 33 percent og installed capacity by 2018.”
Mexico has the means to generate over 18,000 GW/h per year from solar, geothermal, minihydraulic, wind and bioenergy sources. However, for all that capacity to be unleashed and reach its peak, the secondary laws of the controversial energy reform of President Peña Nieto must be approved. Mexican Congress is expected to discuss those laws in the upcoming weeks.
If approved, this legislation would make it easier for “both large companies with cutting-edge technology and those who want to put a solar panel on the roof of their house to do so, to acquire a solar heater or to lease a part of their land for wind generation,” Coldwell said.
Currently, Mexico only gets 17% of its energy from renewable sources, while over 80% comes from fossil fuels.
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