Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 8:45:34 GMT
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Mexico has the capacity to move towards renewable energies. The construction of the largest project in Mexico and Latin America is an example. This is the Reynosa Wind Farm, a project carried out by the Mexican company Zuma Energía in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, which together with the Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell and Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, highlight that this sustainable park consolidates the state among the first three entities in the country with the greatest installed capacity in the production of energy from the power of the wind.
The park has 123 wind turbines with the France Mobile Number List capacity to produce 424 megawatts, which is equivalent to the residential consumption of electrical energy in Tamaulipas or the supply of electrical consumption to one million one hundred thousand homes in Mexico.
Mexico can make more use of solar energy: GIZ
Mexico is capable of making more use of solar energy, since it has the potential to generate 33 GW by 2030, according to the German Cooperation for Sustainable Development in Mexico (GIZ) agency, which is already working with the Mexican government and different entities to promote this. sector.
The solar industry helps provide heat to buildings, hot water and cooking food in homes, in the transformation of raw materials into manufactured products and other applications such as the agricultural sector.
For its part, data from the International Energy Agency, renewable heat has experienced a growth of 23 percent between 2007 and 2015 worldwide, however, in our country, its potential remains largely untapped.
GIZ, in 2017 worked with the National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy and the National Solar Energy Association to create an inter-institutional platform in order to improve the coordination of activities in favor of the development of solar thermal energy in Mexico, called “Solar Heat” Initiative.
It is worth mentioning that the economic potential that is profitable from the use of solar energy and heat in industry and buildings amounts to almost 33 GWt in the period 2010-2030, which represents an incredibly large magnitude, which is why we call it “ sleeping giant.”
There is a platform called Solar Heat Initiative which offers data to implement activities that eliminate barriers to the development of such an industry in Mexico and represents an effort by the Mexican government to accelerate the use of low and medium temperature solar heat.
“The sleeping giant: solar heat market opportunity in the context of the energy sector in Mexico.”
What is the Solar Heat Initiative?
The Solar Heat Initiative is constituted as an inter-institutional platform where actors from the public, private (end users), academic, financial, service providers and technology providers related and/or interested in the generation of solar heat for industrial processes and sectors interact. of final consumption with application potential.
The coordination initiative seeks to capitalize on the opportunities of the solar heat market in industrial processes, which will connect the demand for thermal energy in Mexican industry and other sectors with potential application, with the offer of available technologies and financial options.