Construction works begin at Enel's 244 MW wind project in Mexico

The Enel Group, through its subsidiary Enel Green Power Mexico (EGPM), has begun the construction of the 244 MW Dolores wind farm in the municipality of China, its first project in the state of Nuevo León. The overall investment in the construction of the facility amounts to approximately US$280 million.

The Dolores wind farm is scheduled to start operation in the first half of 2020. Once fully operational, the wind farm will be able to generate approximately 850 GWh per year, avoiding the annual emission of around 470,000 tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere. The construction of Dolores will be based on Enel’s “Sustainable Construction Site” model, which includes the measuring of the project’s socio-environmental impact and actions aimed at incorporating the rational use of resources, such as through water management, as well as a waste recycling project repurposing the site’s wooden pallets to produce eco-friendly furniture and shipping containers to be used by the local community.

The project is supported by a contract providing for the sale to the Mexican Centre for Energy Control’s Cámara de Compensación of specified volumes of energy over a 15-year period and of the related clean certificates over a 20-year period.