The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler

Monday, December 6, 2010

Companies to Build Huge Wind Farm In Oaxaca

From Latin American Herald Tribune:
Grupo Bimbo, the world’s biggest producer of baked goods, and Spain’s Renovalia Energy plan to build the largest wind farm operated by a food company in the world, meeting 100 percent of the company’s energy needs in Mexico.

The wind farm will cost around $200 million and is expected to begin operating in 2011, Grupo Bimbo said.

The Piedra Larga wind farm will have generating capacity of 90 MW and supply electricity to 65 plants and other facilities operated by the baking company, Grupo Bimbo said......

The wind farm will be located in Union Hidalgo, a town in the southern state of Oaxaca, and will be built under a strategic alliance whose partners include the federal government, private interests and banks, the company said.

“The construction of this wind farm is the cornerstone in our effort to continue growing with nature’s force; making us the first company in the food industry to make this great change to use renewable energy sources,” Bimbo CEO Daniel Servitje said.

I wish the US was doing more of this.  Think of it, this is Mexico building green energy plants and it has its own oil company, Pemex.  And in Oaxaca, no less.  ¡Viva!

1 comment:

Joan said...

I wish the people of oaxaca could get some money benefits from this.