“We will be connecting Baja California with the Mexican Republic, which, in addition to a technical benefit of prime importance, is a very important matter of national security,” Bartlett said this afternoon in Puerto Peñasco. The state-owned CFE will build the transmission network from Sonora to Baja California, of an extension of 296 kilometers, which he has described as a “historic” network and the “second largest in the country.”
The solar park will begin its commercial stage next May. The administration of the state company did not give a deadline for the end of the construction of the network and the beginning of the injection of electricity to Baja California.
Today has only been the inauguration of the first stage of the complex, of just 120 megawatts, around 10% of the total installed capacity that the asset that has been announced as the largest solar project in Latin America claims to have. The second stage will be inaugurated next year, before the end of President López Obrador’s six-year term, and the third and last one will be ready until 2028.