EGPM starts Construction of Don José solar PV plant

EGPM (Enel Green Power México) has started the construction of Don José solar photovoltaic plant, located in San Luis de la Paz, in the country’s North-Central state of Guanajuato.

Power plant construction works was inaugurated during an event attended by the Miguel Márquez Márquez (Guanajuato State Governor), the Mayor of the San Luis De La Paz municipality Guillermo Rodríguez Contreras, and Paolo Romanacci, Enel’s Head of Renewable Energies for Central America.

Power Plant have an installed capacity of 238 MW1 and once completed will be able to produce 539 GWh per year, equivalent to theannual energy consumption needs of around 410,000 Mexican households, avoiding the emission of over 245,000 tonnes of CO2  into the atmosphere.

Enel will be investing approximately 220 million US dollars in the construction of Don José, which is expected to be operational in 2018. The project will be supported by a contract providing for the sale to Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad in Spanish or CFE) of both specified volumes of energy over a 15-year period and the related clean certificates over a 20-year period.