Category: Energy

El Paso, Las Cruces, and environmentalists oppose El Paso Electric’s power plant project

EL PASO – El Paso Electric's plan to spend more than $163 million to put a new, natural gas-fired generating unit at its Newman power plant in far Northeast El Paso is being opposed by the El Paso and Las Cruces city governments, the New...

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Acciona buys 240-MW solar project in Texas

TEXAS – Spanish group Acciona SA (BME:ANA) has bought a 240-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Fort Bend County, Texas, from Diode Ventures, an infrastructure developer owned by construction engineering company Black & Veatch Financial...

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Salt River Project and sPower announced the construction of its new plant in Arizona

PINAL COUNTY – Salt River Project and sPower, a renewable energy independent power producer, announced construction is underway on East Line Solar, a new solar power plant that will bring US$10 million in 25 years of tax revenue and up to 350...

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Texas-Based Exxon Mobil Loses US$1 billion due to COVID-19

TEXAS – Two American oil giants lost more than US$9 billion in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic kept households on lockdown, cutting a gaping hole into a once-thriving business as the need for oil diminished Irving-based Exxon...

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El Paso Electric Launches First-Ever Energy Efficiency Marketplace

EL PASO– El Paso Electric (EPE) announced the EP Electric Marketplace, the first-ever online store with popular energy efficiency items with an instant rebate taken off at time of purchase In addition, EPE is proud to announce that its energy...

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Nuevo Leon’s wind projects are kept on stand by

NUEVO LEON – The new federal policies on renewable energy are the ones that have stopped at least three wind energy projects being built in the municipality of General Bravo, said Jorge Gorozpe Velazquez, director of Energy Development of...

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Juarez registered an annual inflation of 4.07%

JUAREZ – Pushed by rising food and electricity prices, Ciudad Juárez recorded an annual inflation of 407% during July, the highest level in the last 24 months According to the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) published by the National...

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Los Pilares dam is inaugurated in Sonora

SONORA – With a cost of about US$973 million, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Sonora State Governor Claudia Pavlovich inaugurated the Bicentennial Dam "Los Pilares" in the presence of federal, state and...

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U.S. Natural Gas Exports Rise as Mexico’s Pipeline System Grows

By Nancy J Gonzalez The completion of the southernmost segment of the Wahalajara system, the Villa de ReyesAguascalientes-Guadalajara (VAG) pipeline, will increase the exports of natural gas to Mexico by pipeline, according to US Energy...

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Wind Farm Expansion Moves Forward Despite Criticism from President

By Wendy Fry Developers say a project to build a second wind farm in Baja California’s Sierra Juarez mountain range is making progress, despite harsh criticism from Mexico’s president and tougher regulations on renewable energy The...

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