With an anticipated investment of 280 million dollars, Green Power
Mexico began the construction of the 244 MW wind power park Dolores in the
municipality of China, Nuevo Leon. It is
expected to start functioning during the first half of 2020 generating about
850 GW/h per year what equals the average consumption of more than 650 thousand
homes.
During the event of the first foundation stone were present directives
from Enel Green Power; Roberto Russildi, state secretary of economy; Raul Karr,
mayor of China, Nuevo Leon and Cesar Cadena, president of the Energy Cluster
Nuevo Leon.
This investment is part of Enel’s Strategic Plan, thus was assured by
Antonio Cammisecra, CEO of Enel Green Power, who in addition mentioned that
this construction is only an example of the expansion the company will be
having in the country. “Dolores
strengthens even more our strategy in the country to face the growing demand of
electricity and the sustainable development in a shocking way by developing
clean technologies in a key state that has exceptional wind power resources,”
said Cammisecra.
Likely the CEO of Enel said that the wind power park will generate
approximately 850 GW/h per year, with what will be avoiding the annual emission
of about 470,000 tons of CO2 towards the atmosphere. The construction of Dolores will be based on
the model of “Sustainable Construction Site” of Enel, which includes the
measurement of the partner environmental impact of the project and actions
addressed to incorporate the rational use of resources, for example, through
water management, and a wastes recycling project for reusing site wood to
produce ecologic furniture and shipment containers to be used by the local
community.
The new project is supported by a contract that stipules the sale of
specific volumes of energy to the Chamber for Compensation National Center for
Energy Control (CENACE, by its Spanish initials) during a period of 15 years
and of the related certificates of clean energy for a period of 20 years.
Dolores is one of the four wind power plants adjudicated to the Grupo
Enel for a total capability of 593 MW on the third auction at long term of the
Energy Reform of the country. In
addition of the plant in Nuevo Leon, the Group received the projects Amistad II
and Amistad III, with an installed capability of 100 MW each, and Amistad IV,
with an installed capability of 149 MW, all located in Acuna, Coahuila.
