Caracas,
Saturday
May 15,2010
MEXICO CITY – Mexico is considering expanding its nuclear power program as part of an effort to promote clean sources of electricity, the head of the Energy Secretariat, or Sener, said.
Georgina Kessel told legislators at the opening of an energy forum in the Senate Thursday that the decision will be based on an analysis of the opportunity cost and future prices, Sener said in a statement.
She added that electrical energy generated by nuclear reactors could enable the government to achieve its goal of producing 35 percent of its electricity from clean sources.
Mexico has a single nuclear power plant, the Laguna Verde nuclear facility in the southeastern state of Veracruz, which has two reactors with 683 MW of generating capacity each.
The energy secretary told the lawmakers that the country has three decades of experience in managing nuclear energy and reviewed the challenges: achieving greater professional specialization, ensuring continual upgrading to meet regulations, promoting greater research and providing for permanent storage of nuclear waste.
Mexico’s electricity sector, which relies heavily on thermal sources of energy, is controlled by a state-run utility, the Federal Electricity Commission, or FCE.
The country had two state-owned power companies until last year but the government shuttered one of them – Luz y Fuerza del Centro, which supplied electricity to central Mexico – because of alleged inefficiency.
According to the government, Luz y Fuerza’s union had held back the company’s progress with obsolete facilities and practices.
Another problem in Mexico’s electricity sector has been peasant groups’ refusal to relocate to make way for hydroelectric power stations, notably at the La Parota project in the southern state of Guerrero. EFE
Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=356941&CategoryId=14091
Saturday
May 15,2010
MEXICO CITY – Mexico is considering expanding its nuclear power program as part of an effort to promote clean sources of electricity, the head of the Energy Secretariat, or Sener, said.
Georgina Kessel told legislators at the opening of an energy forum in the Senate Thursday that the decision will be based on an analysis of the opportunity cost and future prices, Sener said in a statement.
She added that electrical energy generated by nuclear reactors could enable the government to achieve its goal of producing 35 percent of its electricity from clean sources.
Mexico has a single nuclear power plant, the Laguna Verde nuclear facility in the southeastern state of Veracruz, which has two reactors with 683 MW of generating capacity each.
The energy secretary told the lawmakers that the country has three decades of experience in managing nuclear energy and reviewed the challenges: achieving greater professional specialization, ensuring continual upgrading to meet regulations, promoting greater research and providing for permanent storage of nuclear waste.
Mexico’s electricity sector, which relies heavily on thermal sources of energy, is controlled by a state-run utility, the Federal Electricity Commission, or FCE.
The country had two state-owned power companies until last year but the government shuttered one of them – Luz y Fuerza del Centro, which supplied electricity to central Mexico – because of alleged inefficiency.
According to the government, Luz y Fuerza’s union had held back the company’s progress with obsolete facilities and practices.
Another problem in Mexico’s electricity sector has been peasant groups’ refusal to relocate to make way for hydroelectric power stations, notably at the La Parota project in the southern state of Guerrero. EFE
Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=356941&CategoryId=14091
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