Mexico expects an additional 750 MW in geothermal power generation capacity by 2029
Avenida de la Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico (source: flickr/ Enrique Dans, creative commons)
Alexander Richter
24 Jul 2018
Mexico's Ministry of Energy (SENER) expects an additional 750 MW of geothermal power generation capacity to be added by 2029 with new projects and expansion of existing plants.
Over the next decade, SENER, the Ministry of Energy in Mexico expects up top 750 MW in additional geothermal power generation capacity to be added.
As of early July 2018, SENER had issued 24 exploration permits and six production permits for geothermal energy, as reported by BN Americas.
Production permits:
- 570 MW Cerro Prieto, CFE (providing about 40% of electricity for the state of Baja California)
- 10 MW Tres Virgenes, CFE (Baja California)
- 225 MW Los Azufres, CFE
- 80.4 MW Los Humerous, CFE
- 35 MW Domo San Pedro, Grupo Dragón
- 25 MW Cerritos Colorado, CFE (recently added)
This brings the total permitted capacity to 948.4 MW, while the Ministry quotes a capacity of 920 MW operating today in Mexico.
The planned 750 MW of additional capacity is to come from the following fields:
- 100 MW Volcán Ceburuco, Meichoacán
- 75 MW Cerritos Colorados
- 100 MW Cerro Prieto, expansion
- 54 MW Los Humeros, expansion
- 50 MW Domo San Pedro, expansion
- 25 MW Los Azufres, expansion
- and addtional fields.
The key geothermal areas based on exploration permits issued are the State of Jalisco (5), Michoacán, Nayarit and Baja California (all 4), Puebla (3), Guanajuato (2), Baja California Sur and Chaiapas (one each).
Access to details on all concessions can be found on SENER’s website here (status July 27, 2018)
Source: BN Americas
