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Energy Partners Latin America (EPLA) will build a 150MW solar plant in Mexico's northwestern peninsular state of Baja California with a US$279mn investment.

EPLA is an affiliate of Ketchum, Idaho-based Intermountain Energy Partners, founded in 2014 in Mexico to develop renewable energy and water management projects in Latin America.

The plant will allow local industries to become offtakers via long-term power purchase agreements, reducing their electricity tariffs in comparison with their current payments to state utility CFE, while cutting the state's carbon emissions by 270,000t/y, local media reported the president of Mexico's manufacturing chamber (Canacintra) René Romandía Tamayo as saying at a press conference in Tijuana.

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During this one day tour US firms will have the opportunity of seeing Mexico's workforce in action.

Co-Production International (CPI) announces a new date for its Baja Manufacturing Tour this coming November 30th as Mexico's manufacturing industry continues to grow.

This announcement has US companies keen on the Mexico manufacturing sector's growth and contribution to export statistics. CPI's third quarter tour comes at a timely moment and aims to give US firms first-hand access to the benefits of manufacturing in Mexico.

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Mexico manufacturing

As the cost of outsourcing manufacturing to China levels out with the United States, companies are looking for new places to set up shop—locations with competitive labor costs, optimal transport options and an open trading environment—and finding them much closer to home in sunny Mexico. There's a lot that's attractive about America's neighbor to the south that may drive American manufacturing from China to just next door: A stable economy protected by government policy, a robust telecomm infrastructure and abundant natural resources. Regulation and macro-economics aside, part of what's attracting foreign trading to is a combination of where it is, who lives there and who they trade with.

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