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projects of this kind that would have an installed 6. Market Structure
capacity of 39.1 MW. In late 2011, a Spanish com-
pany called Siliken invested in a photovoltaic A. Major PV Companies in Mexico
power project in Durango called La Manzana del
Sol. The ame project has 100MW of installed ca- Mexico is the leading supplier of photovoltaic
pacity now in its first stage and who estimates modules in Latin America. With an annual pro-
that this would to have a total of 400MW in the duction capacity exceeding 276 MW, it is still
five years after its initiation (Figure 7). above countries such as Chile, Brazil, and Argen-
tina. Abengoa, Abener, Del Sol Systems, Microm,
Figure 6: Daily Solar and Sunlight Radiation; Iberdrola, and Silken are among the leading de-
Source: IIE velopers of photovoltaic.

High Solar-Thermal Concentration

Today in Mexico there are no operating plants
using technologies to harness solar energy. How-
ever, the state of Sonora is developing the project
171 CC Agua Prieta II, by CFE that consists of a
combined cycle hybrid system, 477 Mwe, and a
thermal solar field trough of parabolic channels
with a power of 14 MWe. It is expected that this
will enter into central operations in 2014-2015
(Figure 8).

Figure 7: PV Centrals in México; Source: CFE
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