Energy storage could cut 63 million tonnes from Mexico's CO2 emissions

A Danish-Mexican study indicates that solar and battery-based energy storage can make a particularly potent contribution to reducing Mexico's carbon emissions from power generation.
In 2018, Mexico's first hybrid system with solar and batteries, the 25 MW Aura III, came online. Study concludes the potential is 7,760 times greater. | Photo: ESS
In 2018, Mexico's first hybrid system with solar and batteries, the 25 MW Aura III, came online. Study concludes the potential is 7,760 times greater. | Photo: ESS

Climate activists had high hopes when Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, AMLO, was elected to lead Mexico two years back. The left-wing president had during the election campaign declared that his government would comply with the commitments of the Paris Climate Accord and invest in renewable energy.

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