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Big Solar event today

Started by Old55 · Feb 2, 2023 · 16 replies
Old55
https://www.sdpnoticias.com/estados/sonora/plan-sonora-desde-puerto-penasco-en-vivo-alfonso-durazo-encabeza-la-presentacion-junto-a-132-diplomaticos/. The biggest solar array in Latin America … lots of security out that way today
Old55
Alfonso Durazo will show a variety of projects from the Sonora Clean Energy Plan
The state president said that it is a broad call to present the various aspects of the Sonora Clean Energy Plan , which seeks to be a world benchmark.

Alfonso Durazo: Ambassadors will learn about the Puerto Peñasco photovoltaic plant
As part of the agenda, they will visit the Puerto Peñasco photovoltaic plant that has two thousand hectares of solar panels, which is the largest in Latin America and the seventh largest in the world.

Said photovoltaic plant in Puerto Peñasco has an investment of 1.25 billion dollars and will have the capacity to generate one gigawatt of energy .

However, its objective is to produce five gigawatts through different plants, with a total investment of seven billion dollars.

Sonora Clean Energy Plan attends AMLO projects
Alfonso Durazo recalled that with this Sonora Clean Energy Plan he is addressing a substantial part of the energy policies of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( AMLO ).

Lithium and other ways of obtaining energy
The president said that the plan also has the objective of fighting against climate change, for which the aspect of lithium exploitation , the generation of electrical energy from solar energy and the liquefaction of natural gas are not left aside.
Idyllwild
40 to 50 military and National Guard were deployed along the access routes to Sandy Beach as the dignitaries met yesterday afternoon.
Jungle Jim
So this sunlight farm is planned for the salt flats from Sandy Beach over to the fake lagoons? Well it's basically worthless property other than naturally flat as a pancake. What happened to the plans for the property east of the airport?

It's all just a pipe dream anyway. A good investment for sure!
CheddarBob
All this clean energy talk with the dump spewing toxic smoke and possibly contaminating aquifers. Maybe they should invest in a methane generator.
Last edited: Feb 3, 2023 at 12:59 PM
randy and patty
I thought it was going east of the airport? Some of the pics look like there are already panels. Might have to take a drive that way and see.
richwi
The solar plant is right next to the airport. We drove by it a few days ago. I have no idea how many solar arrays there are but it is HUGE, as in you have never seen one this big. There are hundred of arrays installed and this is just phase 1.
CheddarBob
richwi said:

The solar plant is right next to the airport. We drove by it a few days ago. I have no idea how many solar arrays there are but it is HUGE, as in you have never seen one this big. There are hundred of arrays installed and this is just phase 1.

That’s what thought I heard.
Old55
Big deal but
‘environmentalists and the opposition have dismissed the project, known as Plan Sonora after the state where it is located, as a sideshow distracting from a retrograde nationalist energy policy that has prioritized state company CFE and its highly polluting power plants.’

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/mexico-looks-giant-solar-park-desert-assuage-carbon-concerns-2023-02-02/
Jungle Jim
In another month the Sonoran Pronghorn does will not be dropping kids there.

Too bad so sad.
mondone
Mexico: New $1.6B solar project to power 500K homes | CTV News
JoseAz
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/puerto-penasco-solar-power-plant-will-begin-operations-in-april/
joanC
If they build anything too close to the water, the salt air will punish them!
MIRAMAR
I wonder who is going to clean them- once they finish, they'll have to start again.
Old55
MIRAMAR said:

I wonder who is going to clean them- once they finish, they'll have to start again.

A country full of squeege men and you ask that question?
Old55
I gotta believe that this is somehow part of the Desal scheme ….
Old55
A good take on and CFE’s game : https://energiaadebate.com/central-fotovoltaica-de-puerto-penasco/