But, as we have all learned in the past few weeks, Mexico's CFE has its own plentiful power demands in the Yucatan, and Belize has to continue to search for energy independence. The Prime Minister spoke about the timeline for the addition of 60 megawatts of solar power funded with a 77 million dollar loan from the Saudi fund.
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"Then we have to come up with the actual designs and the place we are going. Then we have to come up with the actual designs and the place where we're going to put it, meeting with BEL, BEL pointed out to us that the transmission line cannot hold 60 megawatts at a time. We have to break it up in 20 megawatts. So the first one, looking at the plans that BEL was already working with, cooperating with our government to now we're fast tracking. You know, we are at the point where the designs have been accepted and we presented it to the Saudis, to the bank that is going to lend us the money."
"The area has been identified, it's going to be in Bomba. You know, that by the Maskall era. And we expect that by July, August of next year, the first 20 megawatts was going to be online. And now BEL 's challenge is to ensure that they continue to work on improving their transmission lines. And because, again, of the amount of use and the excessive heat, it creates breaks from time to time, in their lines."
