Major Solar Power Investment Announced for Yucatan Peninsula

Emilia Calleja, director of the Federal Electricity Commission, has presented a photovoltaic power plant project for Quintana Roo with a capacity of 110 megawatts.

A public electricity generation investment has been announced for Quintana Roo along with five private investment projects for the entire Yucatan Peninsula.

For this project, work is being carried out in collaboration with the National Infrastructure Fund (Fonadin) under an institutional coordination scheme, through which tripartite tables were established that identified the best technical conditions and financial viability in Quintana Roo for the development of this solar energy project. In the coming months, preliminary management and work will begin to start developing this infrastructure in 2026.

In the last two months, two other solar energy generation projects have been announced for the southern zone of Quintana Roo. The most recent is from the firm Libienergy, which seeks to develop a solar park in Chetumal on a 500-hectare space, to install 396,443 photovoltaic modules with a nominal power of 237.93 megawatts (MW) and a peak power of 241.83 MW. The project is in the evaluation stage with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), before which it requests a change in land use, justifying that it seeks to generate clean energy.

Additionally, in October a public consultation began for a $250 million project to construct another photovoltaic park that would be located in Felipe Carrillo Puerto. That venture is managed by the firm ZML Quintana Roo, with intended location in the community of Chunhuas, on federal highway number 184 Muna-Felipe Carrillo Puerto. The promoter is awaiting authorization for environmental impact and change of land use on a forested area of approximately 431.04 hectares.

The private sector in Quintana Roo has repeatedly claimed the need to reinforce the installed capacity of electricity generation for Quintana Roo, as constant blackouts reflect that the current infrastructure is insufficient to handle growth, especially in the northern zone of the state.

The project for Quintana Roo is part of a total portfolio of 20 private projects in the country, of which five correspond to the Yucatan Peninsula involving an investment of $2.219 billion, with entry into operation scheduled for June 2028 and June 2029. This aims to achieve a total capacity of six thousand megawatts in six regions of the country where infrastructure needs reinforcement.

Of the total, 15 are photovoltaic projects with a capacity of 2,471 megawatts, as well as five wind energy projects that will contribute 849 megawatts; that is, they will have a combined capacity of 3,320 megawatts, plus 1,488 megawatts of energy storage. They will be built in Campeche, Hidalgo, Yucatan, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Quintana Roo, Puebla, Veracruz, Zacatecas, and Querétaro.