Energy & Science
Mexico Indefinitely Halts New Clean-Energy Plans, Blaming Virus
- Government to suspend preoperative intermittent plant tests
- Critics worry that the measures will hurt new producers
A steam pipe stands at the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) thermal power station in Acolman, Mexico.
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Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Control de Energia (Cenace), which oversees the electrical system, indefinitely suspended critical tests for new clean-energy projects as the nation grapples with the spread of the coronavirus.
Preoperative tests of intermittent power plants would be suspended along with other measures to increase the reliability of the national electrical system, Cenace said in a statement released Friday. Tests that haven’t yet started will also be suspended.