Mexico
Policy & Regulation
£1.3 million for energy vulnerability in Latin America
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded £1.3 million to address energy vulnerability and create sustainable energy systems in Latin America.
Renewable Energy
China’s State Power buys into Mexico’s renewables
China State Power Investment Corporation acquires Mexico renewable energy company Zuma Energia.
Storage
Electricity storage can play crucial role in carbon reduction in Mexico,...
Large scale electricity storage can accelerate Mexico’s green transition, a study from the Danish Energy Agency and Mexico’s INECC finds.
Renewable Energy
Mexico, Central America and Caribbean hit record wind capacity
Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean saw a record 1,830 megawatts (MW) of new wind power capacity installed across the region in 2019 – a 126% year-on-year increase in additions, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.
Finance & Investment
EVs, storage are top non-generation options for G20 investors – report
A new research report by international law firm Ashurst has found electric vehicles and battery storage to be the top non-power generation technologies that senior business leaders from across the G20 have invested in or are committed to investing in.
Distributed generation
US/Mexico border field hospital gets clean energy microgrid
Lithium-ion energy storage specialists SimpliPhi Power has partnered with non-profit Footprint Project to supply and deliver a clean energypowered microgrid field hospital for the Matamoros migrant camp in Mexico on the US border to power the camp’s first mobile medical ICU to treat COVID-19 patients.
Renewable Energy
Vestas scoops last-minute 2019 turbine contracts in US, Mexico
Danish wind giant Vestas secured wind turbine orders totalling over 190MW in the US and Mexico during the final days of 2019, bringing reported US orders to over 760MW during the month of December alone.
Renewable Energy
Tlaxcala Mexico’s first solar plant operational
Enel Green Power México has started operations at its new 220 MW Magdalena II solar facility.
Renewable Energy
Cubico investments see 600MW renewable portfolio go live in Mexico
Cubico has announced that it has reached operations on a 600 MW renewable portfolio in Mexico.
North America
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