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Allways start boldly. Is bold the Wikipedia page with most links? Lucia.yates (talk) 01:33, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Utility scale power generation
In 2013, the installed capacity of renewables in Mexico was 22%. The majority, 18.1% coming from hydroelectricity, 2.5% from wind and 0.1% from Solar PV. Thanks to the Long-Term Energy Auctions, solar PV energy is expected to increase to 6% in 2018 and 13% for 2019.

In December 2013, the Mexican government passed a Constitutional Reform that effectively opened the energy sector to private investment, both for electricity generation and petroleum exploration and extraction. The Reform’s goal was to modernize the sector by optimizing the use of national resources and incentivizing renewable energy through clean energy certificates.

The Reform liberalized the electricity sector and brought forth a Wholesale Electricity Market. Long and medium term auctions are the main mechanisms to incentivize capacity and energy growth as well as to generate clean energy certificates through renewable participation. A long term energy action secures a 15 year contract for energy and capacity supplied whereas medium term only generates 3 year contracts. The first long term energy auction was held in 2015 with a second one in 2016. Solar PV was very successful in both, securing 1,691 MW of the 2,085 MW auctioned in the first and 1573 MW of 3473 MW in the second auction.

Distributed solar power generation
Currently, 98% of all distributed generation can be attributed to solar PV panels installed on rooftops or small businesses. This installed capacity has greatly increased from 3 kW in 2007 to 247.6 MW by the end of 2016. According to the Ministry of Energy if this trend continues till 2018 the total installed capacity will reach 527 MW, the goals set by the Mexico’s Special Program for Energy Transition or PETE (Programa Especial de la Transición Energética). Distributed energy in Mexico is classified as any system with a capacity below 500 kW. The National Association of Solar Energy (ANES from the spanish acronym) reported approximately 21,600 interconnection permits for distributed solar in 2015. In March, 2017 the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) approved regulation that allows net metering, net billing and total sale of electricity for distributed energy.