{"id":4880,"date":"2021-12-08T19:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T01:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2021-12-09T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T01:37:03","slug":"industrial-dg-projects-grow-rapidly-in-northern-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/industrial-dg-projects-grow-rapidly-in-northern-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial DG Projects Grow Rapidly in Northern Mexico."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the North of Mexico, on-site power production using solar panels is becoming the go-to option for industrial energy users. As a result, business is booming despite lingering uncertainty. For instance, Solar installer Enlight increased its sales 35 percent between 2020-2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distributed Generation (DG) refers to behind-the-meter energy installations, used to generate power on a smaller scale, close to its point of use. In Mexico, a country blessed with excellent solar radiation, projects below 0.5MW do not require permitting. This provides another key advantage next to its technical and economic viability, which is boosted by advanced technology and dropping costs. Permitting has slowed down to a glacial pace due to the L\u00f3pez Obrador administration\u2019s efforts to reorient the energy sector. Since DG solar is considered to be an asset to the stability of the grid rather than a detriment, most of the factors creating this uncertainty do not apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom 2019 to 2020 it had a very large growth because there was an important change in the company, we stopped doing low-voltage, residential and commercial projects, and we focused on industrial ones, despite the pandemic. In 2020-2021, we had a 35 percent growth in sales,\u201d Manuel Ahumada, Commercial Director, Enlight told El Economista<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahumada highlighted that DG can achieve energy savings as high as 40 percent for some companies compared to standard rates. As an added benefit, their energy use would be completely clean and therefore boost the operation\u00b4s sustainability. Nevertheless, solar energy\u2019s inherent intermittency is an issue that needs to be dealt with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, the uncertainty in the energy sector coupled with a need to source clean and cheap energy could very well drive more end-users to DG solar, say industry experts.  “Our industrial customers say they will no longer be able to make purchases from the wholesale market, nor do a wind or solar park. They have no choice but to use solar energy,\u201d Ahumada said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cElectricity prices will rise toward the midterm if the reform goes through because CFE is a less efficient power producer. Indirectly, this will push more people toward DG, especially if qualified users and self-suppliers are pushed out of their markets,\u201d said Mauricio Chapa, Managing Director, Tecsolar to MBN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most exciting part of DG is how it puts the power to produce clean energy right in an offtaker\u2019s hands, even if it is only used as part of the energy mix. \u201cDG is democratizing the energy sector. With current regulation, almost anyone can have access to their own energy. For the next step, we need to see explosive growth in energy storage applications, which will empower customers during this democratization,\u201d Sergio Rodr\u00edguez, Service Manager Mexico and Latin America, Solis told MBN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Cas Biekmann. (2021). Industrial DG Projects Grow Rapidly in Northern Mexico. M\u00e9xico. Mexico News Business<\/em>. Recuperado de <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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