Mexico Reaches 5 Gigawatts of Distributed Solar Power
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Mexico has reached another renewable energy milestone. From 600,368 installations across the country, Mexico reached 5,164.98 MW (5.165 GW) of small-scale, distributed solar power capacity by the end of 2025.
All power plants under 0.7 MW of capacity reached 5,189.71 MW. There were 600,651 such systems according to the National Energy Commission (CNE), which means 99.5% of such systems were solar power systems.
More than $13 billion are estimated to have been invested in these projects.
Net metering, where the grid pays rooftop solar owners for excess electricity they send back into the grid, has been a key driver of small-scale solar growth in the country. In total, 593,607 applications and 5,113.14 MW of installed capacity are linked to net metering.
“Within this framework, systems of up to 50 kW account for 98.23% of applications and contribute 3,251.46 MW, representing 63.59% of total net-metered capacity,” pv magazine shares. “Systems ranging from 250 kW to 500 kW, although representing only 0.40% of applications, contribute 989.02 MW, or 19.34% of net-metered capacity.”
The western state of Jalisco leads the country in distributed solar power installations, with nearly 100,000 of them (99,949). Well, by now, the state has surely passed 100,000. Through the end of last year, they accounted for 747.67 MW of power capacity.
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