• POWER: Mexico’s energy regulatory commission (CRE) has authorized homes and small businesses to sell excess electricity they produce via small scale installations -like solar panels- to other local consumers across the power grid as long as their installed capacity does not exceed 0.5 megawatt.
• HIGHER: Effective the moment that it is published in Mexico’s federal register along with details like pricing, experts believe that the CRE’s approval was long overdue. Mexico’s solar energy association -Asolmex- said in September they would the upper limit of installed capacity to be at 1 megawatt
• DISTRUST: “Distributed generation has to do with the use…of panels so that individuals can generate their energy. That is a complex matter. It is not simple … It is valid, as long as the CFE is not harmed,” said Manuel Bartlett, head of Mexico’s state-run electricity utility, in October.
• MARKET: The global market for distributed power generation (of which residential solar panels are only part) was valued at USD 57.3 billion in 2017 and was expected to reach USD 103.2 billion by 2023 according to Zion Market Research, a New York based firm.
