Wind Power News: Mexico
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Emprenderán proyecto en México de energía eólica empresas
[European wind energy companies undertake project in Mexico -- Two companies from Italy and Germany are undertaking a project to develop wind energy in Mexico to the amount of 800 million dollars, according to reports from those transnationals released here today.]
México, 2 ene (PL) Dos empresas de Italia y Alemania emprenderán en México un proyecto de desarrollo de energía eólica por un monto de 800 millones de dólares, de acuerdo con reportes de esas trasnacionales difundidos hoy aquí.
El grupo italiano . . .
Groene energie niet altijd schoon [Green energy is not always clean]
[Spanish video with Dutch, English, or French subtitles]
In Juchitán, in het zuiden van Mexico waait het altijd. En erg hard. De windmolenparken schieten er als paddestoelen uit de grond. Tot groot ongenoegen van de locale Zapoteekse boeren.
[In Juchitán, in southern Mexico, the wind always blows. Very hard. Wind farms are springing up like mushrooms. To the great displeasure of the local Zapotec farmers.
In Spanish with Dutch subtitles:
In Spanish with English subtitles (“Wind industry takes over Zapotecan lands” — Wind power . . .
Van wie is de wind? [Who owns the wind? ¿Quién posee el viento?]
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Ik heb altijd gedacht dat Nederland het land was met de meeste wind van de wereld. Ik heb me vergist, en dat komt misschien omdat ik een trouwe volger van Erwin Kroll ben en hem zo vaak enthousiast de stormen in Nederland heb horen aankondigen. In zijn boek: “Het weer is onafwendbaar” schrijft Erwin dat in Nederland de wolken altijd met de wind mee drijven. Maar in Juchitán drijven niet alleen . . .
Windmills in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec screw over landowning farmers
At first glance, the Arizona Republic’s business-section article today on windmills in La Venta, Mexico, looks like more happy news about “clean” energy.
It’s headlined, “Living off the wind,” and shows a bucolic scene of cows grazing near towering windmills. A graphic about the ultra-windy Isthmus of Tehuantepec is titled, “Gold mine of wind.” And the writer, award-winning reporter Chris Hawley of the paper’s Mexico City bureau, opens his story with a few flowery sentences about turbines standing “like and army of . . .
The downside of Mexico's wind power boom
Behind Canada, Mexico is the largest importer of crude oil to the United States, but a changing breeze is pushing our southern neighbor to produce more wind energy.
Unlike other petroleum-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico’s energy industry has always been state-owned. In the past, this arrangement allowed the country to have more control of the development of its industry. But high foreign debt has kept Mexico from investing in expanding its petroleum infrastructure, supplies — and revenues — are now . . .
Clean-energy windmills a 'dirty business' for farmers in Mexico
The windmills stand in rows like an army of Goliaths, steel towers taller than the Statue of Liberty and topped with blades as long as a jetliner’s wing. The blades whoosh through the humid air, carving energy from a wind that rushes across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec on its journey from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Nearly every day, another tower rises out of the countryside.
The isthmus — Mexico’s narrowest point — is becoming the Saudi Arabia . . .
Social concerns need to be addressed in Mexico's wind power development: experts
Mexico has enormous wind power potential, especially in the isthmus Tehuantepec in southern state Oaxaca, but social concerns must be taken into consideration when the alternative energy is developed, experts said Tuesday at a public event.
Deborah Ley, a Mexican-born academic who has worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, pointed out that wind power development, which could create jobs, have created conflict in Oaxaca.
“Clear contracts are essential,” said Ley, who . . .
Mexico inks $394 mln in wind power projects
Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), the state-run power company, said on Tuesday it had signed contracts for the construction of two wind farms worth $393.6 million.
The CFE said it signed a $176.6 million contract with local consortium Energias Ambientales de Oaxaca for the construction of the 101 megawatt Oaxaca 1 wind farm.
The CFE said it also recently signed a contract with Iberdrola Renewables (IBR.MC) for the construction of a 202 megawatt project known as La Venta 3, also in southern . . .
Baja California to develop wind, hydroelectric power
Baja California plans to decrease its dependence on fossil fuels by developing wind energy and hydroelectric power, the state’s top environmental official said yesterday.
By 2011, alternative energy will supply 75 percent of public lighting statewide, said Socrates Bastida, Baja California’s environmental protection secretary.
Bastida described the state’s plans while speaking in San Diego at a cross-border forum on climate change hosted by the San Diego Association of Governments. Participants included government officials, scientists and representatives of the nonprofit sector from both . . .
Local group wins CFE tender to build 100MW Oaxaca I wind farm
Mexican state power company CFE has awarded the contract for construction and operation of the Oaxaca I wind farm in the state of the same name to a local consortium, CFE said in a statement.
The consortium is made up of firms Energía y Recursos Ambientales and Energías Ambientales de Guadalajara, which will operate the plant under the independent power producer (IPP) model.
The plant will have an installed capacity of between 99.4-103.4MW, according to bidding documents.
The consortium submitted the lowest bid . . .
