Mexico: Latin America’s Renewable Energy Renaissance

2/9/2015 Power Finance & Risk

In contrast to unpredictable renewable energy policies in the U.S. and the European Union, Mexico has emerged as a lightning rod for renewable energy investment. As renewable energy investors assess changing global opportunities, Mexico continues to offer numerous stable investment prospects. Mexico’s investment-grade credit rating provides potential investors one of the few high-grade investment environments in Latin America. Additionally, the sharp reduction in contracted large-scale renewable energy opportunities in the U.S. and Europe has catalyzed recent interest in Mexico.

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Abengoa Signs 1.4 Billion-Euro Syndicated Loan to Refinance Debt

10/01/14 Bloomberg 

Abengoa is the biggest developer of solar-thermal power plants and is building the El Zapotillo aqueduct in Mexico, one of the world’s largest water projects. Its projects include renewable energy, power transmission and waste-to-energy plants. Its $721 million yieldco was listed in the U.S. in June.

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California Leading on Emissions as Brown Signs New Laws

09/23/14 Bloomberg 

Brown signed a bilateral pact with Mexico in July to boost cross-border investments in renewable energy, biofuels and other clean energy technologies. Last year, he traveled to China, the world’s top carbon polluter, and signed an agreement to bolster climate-change cooperation.

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Gravity’s Cuarón challenges Mexico’s Peña Nieto over energy reforms

The Guardian, 4/28/14

The film-maker Alfonso Cuarón, riding high after winning this year’s best director Oscar, has launched into political activism in his Mexican homeland by throwing down the gauntlet to the president.

The London-based director of Gravity published a full-page advertisement in Mexican newspapers on Monday addressed to President Enrique Peña Nieto and demanding answers to 10 questions about the country’s controversial energy reform.

Cuarón explains his advertisement as a response to an interview the president gave two months ago dismissing the director’s earlier low-key public expressions of opposition to the reforms as the result of ignorance about its benefits for the nation.

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Greenpeace urges Mexico to promote renewable energy

FOX News Latino,  4/24/14

Greenpeace protesters at a conference in this capital urged the Mexican government to promote renewable forms of energy to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

Holding up a banner reading “More Renewable Energy, Less Oil,” the Greenpeace activists tried to interrupt Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell’s speech at the second edition of Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos’ ExpoForo event, which ends Thursday.

Security personnel responded by removing the activists from Mexico City’s Banamex convention center, where the gathering is being held, Mexican financial daily El Economista reported.

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Mexico 100% within most favorable sun belt on the planet – #MexFacts

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Lower cost of wind energy encourages municipal governments to use it – #MexFacts

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