Enel Green Power México, a subsidiary of the Italian power company Enel, has inaugurated a new phase of the 754 MW Villanueva solar photovoltaic (PV) park in the Coahuila state of Mexico. The plant is owned by EGPM subsidiaries Villanueva Solar and Parque Solar Villanueva Tres and encompasses the Villanueva-1 and Villanueva-3 parks with a respective capacity of 427 MW and 327 MW. This US$650m facility is the largest PV park under construction in Mexico and Enel's largest worldwide renewable project. So far, the park is 41% complete and is expected to produce over 1.7 TWh/year once built. Villanueva-3 is now producing electricity from a portion of over 190 MW, while Villanueva-1 has been producing power from a portion of more than 120 MW since December 2017.
EGPM is Mexico's largest renewables operator in terms of installed capacity. The company operates 728 MW of installed capacity of which 675 MW of wind power and 53 MW of hydropower. Apart from the Villanueva facility, Enel expects to develop several other solar and wind projects in Mexico in the years to come with a combined capacity of around 1 GW: the 200 MW Amistad wind park, the 238 MW Don Jose solar project in the Guanajuato State and the 93 MW Salitrillos wind project in the Tamaulipas State.