1st phase of Mexican solar project to be operating in April
Mexico plans to power up the first phase of a huge solar energy project in April near a beach town popular with tourists making the short drive from the United States
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Published - Feb 03, 2023, 01:00 AM ET
Last Updated - Jun 22, 2023, 11:26 PM EDT
PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico was pushed 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.
Ebrard made the comments after taking dozens of foreign diplomats to see a massive new solar energy project near the U.S. border.
“Mexico is making a really great effort because it didn't consider (the shift to renewable energy and electric vehicles) 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."
“We too have to change the focus," he said. “It has to go faster.”
