Slim subsidiary granted 30-year concession to develop geothermal plot in Guanajuato

Business elephantine Carlos Slim’s vigor institution was granted a licence to make an $80 cardinal geothermal vigor installation connected Sept. 1, arsenic the steadfast expands its presumption successful Mexico’s vigor market. 

Energías Alternas, Estudios y Proyectos (Grupo Enal), a subsidiary of Slim’s Grupo Carso, has been granted a 30-year concession to make geothermal resources for energy procreation successful Celaya, successful the Bajío authorities of Guanajuato. The Celaya works is expected to person an installed capableness of 26 megawatts.  

“The intent of the concession rubric is to assistance the Concessionaire the close to use, exploit and exclusively exploit the Celaya Geothermal Area… for the intent of generating electricity, arsenic good arsenic allocating the geothermal assets to assorted uses,” reads the rubric published successful the national government’s Official Gazette connected Sept. 1. 

New regulations granted nether Mexico’s vigor reform, which was approved by Congress successful March, let the Energy Ministry (Sener) to contented permits and assistance concession titles for geothermal vigor exploration. 

Under the reform’s Geothermal Law, Sener tin present straight grant titles without the request for bidding, a important alteration from the erstwhile strategy that favored contention betwixt companies.  

Carlos Slim was successful attendance astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s presumption of her archetypal yearly authorities study past week. (Moisés Pablo/Cuartoscuro)

The alteration is expected to heighten entree to concessions for backstage companies and is aimed astatine accelerating the improvement of Mexico’s renewable vigor resources successful enactment with the government’s people of adding energy procreation and spurring greater vigor diversification. 

Grupo Enal has expanded its presumption successful Mexico’s vigor assemblage successful caller years, some successful energy and hydrocarbons. The steadfast has partnered with the state-owned lipid institution Pemex to summation production, arsenic good arsenic put successful renewable energy, with a absorption connected Mexico’s geothermal assets.

In April, GSM-Bronco, different Grupo Carso subsidiary, won a bid to drill 3 exploratory geothermal wells successful the borderline authorities of Baja California, beating competitors specified arsenic Weatherford with its US $45 cardinal winning bid.  

With reports from El Universal, El Financiero and Energía Hoy