Yucatán, Mexico is adding a new solar energy production facility which can produce up to 18 megawatts of electricity, serving about 5.3% of the state's households. Additional facilities are on the way, with aims to produce a massive surplus within three or four years.
The San Ignacio solar plant, which covers 66 hectares[*] in the municipality of Progreso, was inaugurated Friday by Governor Mauricio Vila Dosal. The Chinese company Jinko Solar invested US $30 million to build the plant.
Energy generated by the plant will be consumed in Progreso and the state capital, Mérida.
[*] 66 hectares is just over 163 acres or just over 1/4 (i.e. 163/640) of a square mile.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:40AM (1 child)
Funny! Those were my first thoughts also. We already put the kabash on a big Chinese project in Cancun. We don't want them around. Their gangs will definitely take over if we let them in. We have to tell them their money is welcome, but they are not. They'll just be killing and eating our cats and dogs and spitting on the sidewalks. And they are more arrogant than the damn French! Believe it or not!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:05AM
The one thing they all had in common, save ones whose family came over pre-communism, is they avoid directly saying anything bad about the Chinese government, and in the case of a girlfriend's family were actively aversive to being around political figures, scares like they would be gunned down or abducted (they happened to live in a country where we were within 50 feet of the Prime Minister on a beach one day!) Security detail was a couple chips style bike cops with SMGs and chest hair. Looked very 80s.