Weekly Report - 06 April 2017 (WR-17-13)

MEXICO | Renewable energy. On 29 March, the Mexican subsidiary of Italian renewables company Enel, Enel Green Power Mexico (EGPM), began constructing the firm’s largest solar-powered plant to date in Villanueva, in the northern state of Coahuila. Enel has pledged US$650m towards the project, which is due for completion in 2018. The plant will have a total installed capacity of 754 megawatts (MW) and will generate around 1700 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity each year; enough to power 1.3m homes and save around 780,000 tonnes in CO₂ emissions.

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