70% of the Mexican territory has solar radiation greater than 4.5kWh/m² per day, which means that using current photovoltaic technology, a 25 km² solar plant in the states of Chihuahua or Sonora could provide all the electricity demanded by the country, occupying only 0.01% of its surface.
Photovoltaic solar energy has been developed in Mexico at an increasing rate in recent years, currently having more than 200MW installed thanks to projects such as Aura Solar in La Paz, Baja California Sur (BCS), which generated 82GWh per year (enough to supply the consumption of 65% of the population of La Paz), but it was devastated by Hurricane Odile.
In 2018, what is currently the largest solar plant in America, and the second largest in the world, came into operation in the municipality of Villanueva, Coahuila, which has an annual production capacity of 1.7GWh.
As for distributed generation, at the beginning of 2019 there were more than 80,000 distributed generation contracts in the country, which implies a generation capacity of 496MW on the roofs of houses and businesses in the national territory. In 2018 alone, more than 40,000 photovoltaic systems were installed; an increase of almost 50% compared to the 27 thousand that were installed during 2017, and even higher compared to the 12 thousand installations made during the previous year.
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November 04, 2022