Mexico announces battery storage mandate for renewable energy plants
A month after India introduced an energy storage mandate for renewable energy plants and China scrapped its own, Mexico has stepped forward with an ambitious 30% capacity requirement, alongside plans to add a further 574 MW of batteries by 2028.
From ESS News
Future wind and solar energy projects in Mexico will be required to colocate battery energy storage systems equivalent to 30% of their capacity, a senior government official told the Senate last week.
“We’ve already changed the grid code and established that for each intermittent renewable generation plant, 30% will be batteries,” Jorge Islas, undersecretary for planning and energy transition, told the “National Strategic Plan: Perspectives and Strategies” Forum. “The batteries will need to store energy equivalent to at least three hours of discharge.”
With its energy storage market at a fledging stage, Mexico’s new regulation comes hot on the heels of a similar policy introduced in India. In late February, India’s Ministry of Power mandated renewable energy implementing agencies and state utilities demand two-hour-plus energy storage systems with at least 10% of the capacity of associated solar installations in future tenders.
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