Alberto Valenzuela discusses ahead of Energy Storage Summit Latin America about Mexico’s growing interest in renewables and energy storage, and the factors driving this growth.

Energy-storage.news spoke with Valentina Meneses at Americas Market Intelligence about emerging markets in Latin America and BESS challenge.

Danish investment firm Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close of the La Esperanza Solar energy storage-plus-solar PV project in the state of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

Mexico’s Ministry of Energy (SENER) has launched a new call for renewable power projects including generating and energy storage assets.

BYD and Skysense, a Mexico-based developer of solar, storage and green hydrogen projects, announced an alliance for the implementation of 300 MWh of energy storage in Mexico and Latin America.

US president Donald Trump has brought in new tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, which will hit batteries – the kind of move Samsung SDI said could benefit its Korea-based manufacturing.

A lack of regulation and policy regarding BESS is challenging the growth of the technology in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Developer Quartux and global inverter and energy storage technology firm Sungrow have completed a 25MWh project in Mexico, one of the largest in the country.

Spain-based Ingeteam supplied the power conversion and inverter equipment for the first phase of a 1GW solar-plus-storage project in Mexico, the country’s largest.

The Inflation Reduction Act could “suck the oxygen out” of the Latin American (LatAm) energy storage market, the CEO of pan-American energy storage firm On.Energy said.