Mexico's Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced that the country is pushing to accelerate the move to renewable energy as global energy costs rise.
to accelerate its turn toward renewable energy after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year drove a sharp increase in global energy costs, Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said late Thursday.
"Mexico is making a really great effort because it didn't consider would be so fast," Ebrard said. The decisions made by the United States and Mexico in the past year to invest heavily in those areas"didn't appear so near before the war."ADVANCED MEXICO-US DRUG TUNNEL HAD SOLAR PANELS, VENTILATION, RAIL SYSTEM
Once completed, the full $1.6 billion project will have a generating capacity of 1,000 megawatts — enough to power some 500,000 homes. It will be the largest solar project built by Mexico’s state-owned electric company. The Federal Electric Commission plans to have the first 120 megawatts of the project operational by April 29, Juan Antonio Fernández, the commission’s strategic planning director, said Thursday.Sonora Gov. Alfonso Durazo, who once served as a Cabinet minister alongside Ebrard before running for state office, made the case that Sonora should be the center of Mexico’s electric vehicle production.
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