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Figure 8: Growth Potential of Solar Thermal En- The table looks like it has grown the national en-
ergy in Mexico; Source IIE ergy sector since early 2000 to late 2013 and can
be seen as the sector photovoltaic energy barely
appeared in the outlook in mid-2012 producing
only 0.01 of energy and being less than 1% of its
development potential (Figure 9).

B. Share of Renewable Energy Companies in
Mexico

The following table shows the number of compa-
nies participating in the market for 2009, accord-
ing to INEGI. For this year there were 65 compa-
nies involved in this market segment. Gross pro-
duction for 2009 amounted to a total of 450,
968,876 units with a total investment of 29,
504,562 bp, which generated a total income of
522 313 705 million. Given the figures, we also
see that there are 27 companies that dominate
this market, contributing to 77.07% of it (Table
1).

Figure 9: Gross Power Generation; Sources: SENER
Science Target Inc. www.sciencetarget.com