RE+ México 2025 drew greater than 8,500 attendees to Expo Guadalajara, with optimism pushed by pending power reforms and a brand new storage ruling within the nation.

March 25, 2025
Luis Ini

From pv journal Mexico

The sixth version of the RE+ Mexico photovoltaic and power storage commerce present, previously often known as Photo voltaic Energy Mexico, wrapped up earlier this month at Expo Guadalajara. pv journal had its personal sales space on the occasion. Right here’s a fast recap of what transpired.

The amount and high quality of exhibitors stood out – practically 150, a 15% improve from the 2024 version. Main manufacturers had been in attendance, with a notable surge of Chinese language photo voltaic panel producers coming into the market. Customer numbers additionally jumped considerably, rising from 6,500 final 12 months to over 8,500 this 12 months.

The political state of affairs in Mexico was a key matter for exhibitors and trade professionals within the aisles. Vitality reform legal guidelines, endorsed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, had but to be voted on within the Chamber of Deputies. Nonetheless, there was cautious optimism that, not like the earlier authorities, the present one is shifting ahead with legal guidelines that, if not superb, might at the least enable renewable tasks to renew improvement.

New product launches additional fueled this optimism. For instance, Longi launched its Hello-MO household, a 670 W line focused on the distributed-generation market.

Distributed technology is attracting essentially the most consideration within the Mexican market, as massive tasks are nonetheless ready for extra favorable circumstances. A key instance is the current renewal settlement between Chinese language producer JA Photo voltaic and Mexican distributor Exel Photo voltaic, which covers the sale of 260 MW of photo voltaic panels for the Mexican distributed-generation market.

Statistics from 2024 helps this focus. Mexico’s distributed technology capability grew by greater than 35%, reaching 1,086.22 MW put in and 4,447.92 MW whole, primarily based on 106,934 signed interconnection contracts.

Expectations for the power storage sector had been equally excessive on the commerce present. Sungrow, a Chinese language producer, is focusing on business and industrial (C&I) with its flagship merchandise. Nonetheless, analysts additionally count on a increase within the utility sector following the institution of latest laws, significantly after the enactment of the secondary legal guidelines for the federal government’s power reform. Canadian Photo voltaic stated this progress might start by the top of the 12 months.

For the primary time in six years, the Mexican authorities had an official presence. RE+ Mexico Director Ben Low instructed pv journal that the opening speech, given by Vitality Transition Undersecretary Jorge Islas Samperio from the Mexican Ministry of Vitality (SENER), despatched an necessary sign.

The temper grew to become much more optimistic on the truthful’s closing day when the Vitality Regulatory Fee (CRE) printed an settlement that equates power storage with electrical energy technology. This provision, which had been stalled for months, got here into impact simply as RE+ Mexico concluded.

Briefly, it’s protected to foretell that 2025 will likely be a 12 months of serious trade developments, with the following RE+ Mexico much more profitable.

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