How a Massive Food Market Will Power Mexico City’s Public Buses
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More than 30,000 solar panels have been installed on the roofs of the Central de Abasto food market in Mexico City.
Photographer: Jeoffrey Guillemard/Bloomberg
The Central de Abasto food market in Mexico City is one of the largest in the world, moving more than 1 billion pesos (over $51 million) worth of product each day. Soon, it could also fuel the city’s public transit system.
More than 30,000 solar panels installed atop the 35-million-square-foot complex will soon be used to power the city’s electric buses, helping Mexico’s new president Claudia Sheinbaum achieve her goal of boosting clean energy in the fossil-fuel dependent country. The panels, installed while Sheinbaum was still mayor of the capital, already help cut the market’s electricity bill by some $155,000 a year, Valentine Hilaire reports. Today on CityLab: Roofs of Mexico City’s Massive Food Market Will Power Public Buses