With Brazil’s renewables programme suspended amid a political and economic crosswinds, the crown for Latin America’s most attractive renewables market passes to Mexico, where the government is expected to hold around 1GW of tenders each year as it targets a 35% clean-energy mix by 2024 (see panel, right).
Following a reform of the energy sector in 2014, which allowed private companies to access the full power market for the first time, the government hosted clean-energy tenders in March and September last year, contracting 52 projects — 1.97GW
