The American Company known as ASI International Green Energy is planning to build three solar energy power plants in Yucatan during 2014 and 2015.
One of the projects called “solar energy” will help to solve the problems of electricity generation in Yucatan, and will put the southeastern State of Mexico as the forefront in the use of radiation from the Sun.
With an investment of $ 30 million USD, the U.S. company known as American Solar Integrators (ASI), International Green Energy, will start in the last quarter of 2014 the construction of a solar power plant in the town of Baca, located about 32km from Merida.
The governor of Yucatan, Rolando Zapata Bello, had a meeting on November 1st with the investors of ASI International Green Energy, who presented the solar energy project to produce 240 megawatts, on a 120 hectares land in the town of Baca.
William J. Burk, president of the U.S. firm, said that besides the 120 acres land in Baca, there is also the possibility of building two more solar power plants, one located in Temax and another at the Paraiso Police Station , in Progreso.
Burk indicated that The “Solar Ground Baca,” will generate 200 jobs in the construction phase and will have a permanent workforce of at least 10 employees specialized in the field of engineering, for the plant maintenance.
This will be the first of three major projects that the firm planned to contribute to the business sector in Yucatan.
He highlighted that the ” Solar Ground Baca ” is an ambitious plan that the company has for the Yucatan Peninsula , through a Development and Construction Agreement with the company Belectric, to implement these kind of projects.
According to the business plan established for the State, in six years the Baca plant will have a capacity of producing 90 MW and will generate clean energy (equivalent to 1.7 million kilowatts per year) , using photovoltaic panels that will arise on a plot of 33 of the 120 available hectares.
William J. Burk said that the work will be carried out simultaneously, and at the end it will produce more than 1000 MW of clean energy, which would generate more than 5000 jobs in transportation , logistics and construction.
ASI International Green Energy has another project to bring electricity to rural areas of the State, powered through mobile photovoltaic panels, with the capacity to generate enough energy for a community of 50 people.