Wind Power News: Mexico
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Sempra subsidiary seeks permit to build cross-border power line
Sempra Energy’s power generation subsidiary has applied to the federal government for a “Presidential permit” to build a 500-kilovolt transmission line across the U.S. border with Mexico near Jacumba.
Sempra Generation, which owns and operates four natural gas-fired power plants in the Southwestern United States, filed the application on Dec. 20 on behalf of Baja Wind, according to a notice published in the Feb. 22 federal register.
The proposed transmission line would carry as much as 1,250 …
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Grassroots Resistance: Contesting Wind Mill Construction in Oaxaca
The government of Mexico, in conjunction with multinational corporations, the Inter American Development Bank and World Bank, has undertaken a massive windmill building project in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca. The construction of these wind farms – known in Spanish as parques eolicos – is being increasingly resisted by local communities, such as La Venta and La Ventosa, which are in and around Juchitan of southern Oaxaca. The Mexican government, the CFE (Comision Federal de …
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Sempra seeking land rights to expand Mexican wind farm to 1,000 MW
Sempra Energy said during its third-quarter earnings conference call that it is actively seeking to acquire land to expand its planned 250-MW La Rumorosa Wind project to 1,000 MW.
“We have secured land rights to develop about 250 MW and we are currently in negotiations with landowners in that same area to get additional landholdings to increase that development way beyond that,” said Sempra Energy Chairman and CEO Donald Felsinger.
“Having a good wind project is really …
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The People Are Fighting Energy Mega-Projects in Oaxaca
OAXACA: Conferences, forums, backyard meetings, neighbors, farmers, fishermen: the people of Oaxaca, just as their neighbors in Chiapas and Guerrero, are coming together to talk about the invasion of the transnational corporations. What can they do? “First, identify the enemy,” says human rights lawyer Javier Balderos Castillo.
Mexico, and especially the impoverished southern tier, could use cash that might be produced by developing renewable energy, the transnationals’ hottest projects. They have the weight of “good” on …
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Sempra to acquire wind farm co-rights; As many as 125 turbines planned in Baja project
Sempra Energy has taken its first step into the clean energy business by buying rights to a proposed wind farm in Baja California.
The company said yesterday that it will buy co-development rights from Cannon Power Corp., which is also based in San Diego, to a proposed 250-megawatt wind generation project in La Rumorosa, about 70 miles east of San Diego and south of the international border.
Sempra declined to disclose what it paid for its …
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Oaxaca braces for new protests
In rallies this week, many protesters linked Ruiz with Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s economic policies, especially after Calderon affirmed Ruiz’s status as the legitimate governor in March during a photo op to launch a plant to generate wind power.
The words of Benito Juarez, a reformist hero and Oaxaca’s most famous native son, are found on their share of colonial-era buildings here: “Respecting the rights of others is peace.”
So it is no wonder that Oaxaca remains …
Organized chaos in Oaxaca: PFP evicts farmers to construct wind park on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Finally, here’s the article I’ve been predicting: “Teachers and APPO and communal land owners announce the boycott of Venta II,” accompanied in action by other organizations including The Front of the People of the Isthmus in Defense of the Land. President Felipe Calderon and Governor Ulises Ruiz are inaugurating the construction of the new wind farm to generate electricity, owned by a Spanish transnational, on Wednesday March 28 (see the video newsreel, The Windmills of …
Farmers and scientists see risks in wind energy
The Mexican government is preparing a big wind energy project, but peasant farmers and bird experts aren’t too happy about it.
The government’s aim is for wind-generated electricity — which now accounts for just 0.005 percent of the energy generated in Mexico — to reach six percent by 2030. The project has the blessing of some big corporations and environmentalists.
Achieving that goal involves setting up more than 3,000 turbines in Mexico’s windiest zone, the Isthmus of …
Wind Power Plant Planned for Oaxaca
Mexican retailer Organizacion Soriana and joint venture partner Vientos del Istmo SA plan to invest $300 million (euro232 million) in a wind-driven power plant in the state of Oaxaca.
In a filing with the Mexican Stock Exchange on Monday, Soriana said the plant will start operating in the second half of 2009 with an initial capacity of 216 megawatts, which could rise to 396 megawatts in the future.
“The plant is designed to generate enough energy to …
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Iberdrola wind energy project in Mexico approved
The Spanish Designated National Authority regarding Climate Change, which reports to the Ministry of the Environment, has issued a letter of approval for the La Ventosa wind farm project as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the flexibility elements included in the Kyoto Protocol, which Iberdrola is developing in Mexico. The Iberdrola wind farm, which has earned accreditation as a CDM for 21 years from 1st January 2008, will have 102 megawatts (MW) of …
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