A very nice job by Mexico Listo on what is now the world’s largest urban solar plant:
The Centro de Abasos (Mexico City’s central market) is 85 hectares a building (the Pentagon in Washington has only 29 for comparison), the largest footprint of any single building in the Americas. Besides fulfilling a much more useful function inside than the Pentagon, what’s outside every day is about to provide another benefit beyond what goes in and out of its doors every hour of every day.
Mexico City has just completed a massive project to install over 32,000 photovoltaic modules on the market’s rooftops – making it the largest rooftop solar plant in the world.
220,000 square meters of solar panels, providing 25 gigawatts of electrical power a year, not just powering the market itself, but added to the grid, and reducing Mexico City’s CO2 emissions by an estimated 13,550 tons a year.
As the local city markets are remodeled, solar panels are being installed on the roofs lowering our electrical rates throughout the system.
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