Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Mexico’s largest wind farm to be inaugurated Monday

A new wind farm that will be Mexico’s largest and one of the biggest in Latin America will be inaugurated Monday in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.

The US $600-million Reynosa I project will have the capacity to produce 424 megawatts (MW) of energy annually and supply electricity to 900,000 people.

Located on the Charco Escondido ejido (community lands) to the south of the northern border city, the 8,000-hectare wind farm was built by the Spanish firm Acciona Energy for the Mexican company Zuma EnergĂ­a and has 123 turbines, each reaching 120 meters into the sky.

It will prevent the emission of 739,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

The project is the result of Mexico’s second long-term energy auction, which was conducted by the Secretariat of Energy (Sener) and the National Energy Control Center (Cenace) in September 2016.

Zuma bid successfully for contracts to produce 725 MW of renewable energy.

The company will eventually operate four other wind farms: Reynosa II, III and IV at the same site and Reynosa V at a different location 14 kilometers away.

There are currently five wind farms in operation in Tamaulipas while another seven are being built.

The US $126-million El Porvenir wind farm, a project developed by Grupo Ecos in Reynosa, generates 156.4 MW of energy and a second construction phase will soon add a further 72 MW.

French company Engie operates a US $80-million wind farm in the municipality of Llera that generates 200.2 MW annually, while Mexican firm Gemex has two wind farms in GĂĽĂ©mez, which generate power that is supplied to 311 Soriana supermarkets.

Among the projects under construction in the northern border state are a US $119-million project built by Engie that is expected to start operations in 2020 and a 100 MW wind farm built by Italian multinational Enel Green Power that is slated to enter into service in June 2019.

Source: El Financiero (sp)

Monarch butterflies landed on plants

Good news! Monarch migration is up in Michoacán

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The migrating monarchs got to Mexico late this year, but their numbers are up, say caretakers at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.
Accompanied by cabinet ministers including Ebrard and Finance Minister Rogelio RamĂ­rez de la O, Sheinbaum outlined 12 specific goals of Plan MĂ©xico to an audience that included government and business sector representatives.

Sheinbaum wants to make Mexico 10th largest economy in the world with ‘Plan MĂ©xico’

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Sheinbaum said that there is already US $277 billion in the investment pipeline.
A wildfire in Mexico

Wildfire report: Mexico saw a 60% increase in destruction from forest blazes in 2024

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Mexico’s National Forestry Commission (Conafor) reported that the total area destroyed — 1.67 million hectares — was the most recorded since it began keeping records in 1998.