250 more megawatts is how many barrels of oil?
Mexico continues to drill new oil wells, but everyone knows the amount of oil available is going to decline. The country can’t go looking for new fields in… oh… Iraq for example, but there are alternatives:
Sempra Energy, owner of the largest U.S. natural-gas utility, said it agreed to buy the development rights to a wind-power facility in Mexico as part of a venture into renewable energy.
Sempra said it agreed to acquire the rights to develop a 250-megawatt wind-power project near La Rumorosa, a town in Baja California about 70 miles east of San Diego, where Sempra is based. It is buying the rights from Cannon Power Corp. One megawatt is enough to power about 750 average U.S. homes.
My electric bill went up (again!) and Texas has been talking about coal powered plants when the Big Bend is probably the best place in the United States for solar power (high altitude, low cloud cover), only slightly less promising that Zacatecas or Chihuahua.
mexfiles.net 
It’s always about corporate wind farms or solar plants isn’t it. Our government so conveniently overlooks the obvious – solar panels on every rooftop. Here in southern Airzona we could probably be energy-independent at least as far as electricity goes. But then where’s the corporate profit?