| Zacatecas, Mexico, 4/06/2007 – Renewable energy experts and government officials meeting in Zacatecas, Mexico, will explore ways to make renewable energy, including solar energy, a larger part of North America’s electricity production.
As part of the International Week for Promoting Solar Energy in Mexico, to be held 4–8 June, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and leading experts will meet to identify opportunities to build renewable energy capacity in Mexico and across North America.
“With environmental consciousness rising in step with greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel prices, there is growing demand for alternative energy sources,” said CEC Executive Director Adrián Vásquez-Gálvez. “We are working to help our countries expand their markets for renewable energy as a cost-effective and environmentally sound response to meeting North America’s electricity needs.”
The CEC’s meeting will open with a discussion on the state of Mexican renewable energy markets and feature panels on three sources of renewable energy: wind, biomass and solar. Experts from federal government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, including the Red de Bionergía, as well as industry associations such as the Asociación Mexicana de Energía Eólica and the Asociación Nacional de Energía Solar will close the meeting by identifying collective ways to move ahead the renewable energy agenda.
Also on hand for the week’s events will be Zacatecas Governor Amalia García Medina, Mexico’s Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel and other key government officials. A solar energy symposium sponsored by the Energy Secretariat, the state of Zacatecas and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization will be among the main events.
In Zacatecas, the CEC will also be presenting a new paper entitled Fostering Renewable Electricity Markets in North America, which identifies specific opportunities for Canada, Mexico and the United States to promote both the production and purchase of renewable electricity. Among its conclusions, the paper cites regulatory mandates, voluntary purchases, self-supply and financial incentives as the most important drivers of a renewable electricity market in North America today.
For more information about the CEC’s event or its work on renewable energy, please visit www.cec.org/energy. For information about the solar energy week events, contact Jaime Agredano Díaz, Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, at (777) 3623811 ext. 7771 or agredano@iie.org.mx.
Media: please contact Jeff Stoub at the CEC Secretariat for interviews or other information: jstoub@cec.org or 514-350-4327. |
