The Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) of Mexico, after having received 13 new geothermal areas and 5 concessions is now openly looking for investors both local and foreign to develop said projects.
In an official press released by the CFE , the public entity received a field exploitation concession for Cerritos Colorados, in Jalisco. In addition, the Conagua gave the CFE a geothermal water concession for this same field, with a volume of 4 million 380 thousand cubic meters, the aquifer is Ameca, and for a period of 30 years. This project will have a capacity of 25 MW.
In addition, the CFE was also awarded an extension to the rights to continue exploiting four geothermal fields which currently operate and are located in: Cerro Prieto, Baja California; Los Humeros, Puebla; Los Azufres, Michoacan; and Tres Virgenes, Baja California Sur, which have 874 MW of installed capacity.
SENER also gave the CFE exploration permits in the following geothermal areas: Volcano Chichonal in Chiapas; Acoculco in Puebla; Araró-Simirao, Los Negritos, Lake Cuitzeo and Hervores Ixtlán of Michoacan; La Soledad, San Marcos and Planillas in Jalisco; Cerritos and Calderon-Cucapah in Baja California; El Molote in Nayarit and San Bartolome de Los Baños in Guanajuato.
Those interested in participating in the aforementioned project should get in contact with the Mexican entity.
Source: CFE & El Sol De Puebla