Canadian Solar has commissioned a photovoltaic farm that it has developed and supplied modules for in Aguascalientes, Central Mexico.
Electricity generated by the facility will be sold to the Comision Federal de Electricidad under a 15-year power purchase agreement for energy and capacity, as well as clean energy certificates over 20 years.
Aguascalientes is powered by over 200,000 of Canadian Solar’s high-efficiency poly modules, CS6U-P. The company will also service the plant.
Canadian Solar has a pipeline of 368MW of solar projects in development in the country, with awarded power supply contracts.
Company chief executive Shawn Qu said: “Construction of these late-stage projects will soon start and commercial operations will be achieved in 2020.”
Canadian Solar competed for and won the Aguascalientes project in the first long-term auction in Mexico in 2016.