Featured in New market axis for trackers – 07-2016

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Mexico: With pricing set as the challenge, the solar sector is getting ready for Mexicos second electricity auction. The first tenders incredible $45/MWh average tariff could well set the precedent – and the handicap – for the next one in September. Meanwhile, the private PPA market is making little progress as high volume consumers deliberate over the best strategy to meet the clean energy requirements now in place.

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pv magazine

17 Jun 2016

The average tariff of $45/MWh not only made PV the center of attention in the Mexican market’s first wholesale electricity auction, but also presents its biggest challenge going into the second tender, due to be held in September.The incredibly low rate at which over more than four terawatt hours’ worth of PV capacity was awarded …

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