The USAID/DOE Mexico Renewable Energy Program: Using technology to build new markets
- Renewable Energy Office, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-0704 (United States)
Under the Mexico Renewable Energy Program, managed by Sandia National Laboratories, sustainable markets for renewable energy technologies are developed through the implementation of pilot projects. Sandia provides technical assistance to several Mexican rural development organizations so they can gain the technical and institutional capability to appropriately utilize renewables within their ongoing programs. Activities in the area of water pumping have shown great replication potential, where the tremendous rural demand for water represents a potential renewable market of over {dollar_sign}2 billion. Thirty-six photovoltaic water pumping projects have been installed thus far in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Sonora, Baja California Sur, and Quintana Roo, and 60 more will be implemented this year. The majority of these projects are in partnership with the Mexican Trust for Shared Risk (FIRCO), which has asked Sandia for assistance in extending the program nationwide. This replication is beginning in five new states, and will continue to grow. Sandia is keeping the U.S. renewable energy industry involved in the program through facilitating partnerships between U.S. and Mexican vendors, and through commercialization assistance with new systems technologies. The program is sponsored by the Department of Energy and the U.S. Agency for International Development. {copyright} {ital 1997 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 552851
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961178-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 98:001216
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 394, Issue 1; Conference: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)/Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) photovoltaics program review meeting, Lakewood, CO (United States), 18-22 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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