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Alex Hinojosa, deputy managing director
of the North American Development
bank (NADB), was joined by the governor
of Chihuahua as the first of 52,000 solar
panels was installed in the 13.6MW AC
Los Santos I solar park in Moctezuma,
Chihuahua.
Representatives
from
the
border
environmental cooperation commission
(BECC), the overseas private investment
corporation
(OPIC),
Buenavista
Renewables (BVR), Leoni Cable, and the
La Salle educational network were also
present at the ceremony.
The $40 million solar plant, which is being
built with financing from NADB and OPIC,
was certified by BECC in April 2015. The
generated electricity will be purchased
by La Salle for its northern district of
educational institutions in Chihuahua,
Coahuila, Durango, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon,
Sonora and Tamaulipas, as well as by
Leoni Cable which has factories in the
states of Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora
and Guanajuato.
“We congratulate La Salle and Leoni on
their use of renewable energy to power
their facilities,” said Mr Hinojosa. “We
are pleased to have participated in the
financing of this solar project, a pioneer in
energy sales for the private sector, which
we hope will serve as an example for
other companies that may wish to take
advantage of the abundant solar energy
in Chihuahua.”
Los Santos I is the first phase of a
multi-stage project envisaged to generate
price-stable, long-term renewable energy
in Chihuahua, one of the most solar rich
states in northern Mexico.
First solar panels installed