MEXICO - Wind Umbrella

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The objective of the Wind Umbrella (La Venta II) Project aims to reduce greenhouse gases emissions from power generation in Mexico and promote investment in wind energy in Mexico to diversify the sources of power generation in the country. There two components to the projects. The first component of the project is purchase of carbon emissions reductions. Certified emissions reduction (CFE) uses a long-term power planning simulation model (DECADES) to select future power plants that are needed for the expansion of the country's electricity system. On the basis of such modeling results it is possible to compare alternative scenarios of new generation plants and estimate emissions with- and without the wind power plants in the long term. During the operational period the actual dispatching of energy generated from the wind power plant is controlled by the National Center for Energy Control (CENACE) and can be monitored in real time to record the amount of electricity produced from the plant and the equivalent avoided emissions for verification purposes. The second component of the project is wind energy power plant and interconnection line. Emissions reductions will be the result of CFE's wind energy project to be located in the ejido la Venta, municipality of Juchitan de Zaragoza, a region known as the Istmo de Tehuantepec, state of Oaxaca. CFE's wind energy project will use wind turbine generators that transform the kinetic energy of the wind to generate electricity.