Wind power in Mexico. Clean electricity in a country with a great deal of wind.

Why Mexico

Mexico has a great deal of wind. Ecologi’s page says one zone alone, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, could produce more than 33,000 megawatts. For a long time very little of that was used. In 2009 Mexico made 202 megawatts from wind, which was 0.13% of the world’s wind power.

That has changed. Ecologi says wind supplied 6.36% of Mexico’s electricity in 2020, up from 0.24% in 2009. But there is a long way to go. Fossil fuels still supply more than 90% of the country’s energy, and the population is still growing. More wind power is a key part of moving away from fossil fuels.

How the project cuts emissions

A wind turbine makes electricity without burning anything. Each unit of power it supplies is one that does not have to come from a power station burning fossil fuels. That is where the saving comes from.

Ecologi says this project will prevent an average of 245,015 tonnes of CO2e each year it runs, and that it will run for at least 20 years. CO2e means carbon dioxide equivalent. This is a forecast for the whole project. It is not a count of what has been achieved so far.

Ecologi also notes that wind farms on land take up little room. The turbines usually use no more than 1% of the land they stand on, so farming and grazing can carry on around them.

Who is involved

Ecologi’s page does not name the company that built or runs the wind farm, so we will not guess. It says the project is part of a larger one, with two other turbine sites also making clean power for Mexico.

It does name the local groups the three sites have worked with. They include the civil association MEXFAM, the Espíritu de Ayuda foundation, the Technological Institute of Mixe, Istmo University, the National Educational University and a training institute for work in Oaxaca State.

What else the project has paid for

The page lists work the three wind sites have funded in the area. Only the health figures carry a date, the end of 2012. Ecologi gives no date for the rest, so please read them as figures from the past and not as current totals.

• Health. By the end of 2012, information on spotting cervical and prostate cancer early had reached 1,580 local people. Workshops and medical checks had been given to 1,000 young people, four sports facilities had been built and 1,100 pieces of exercise equipment had been donated.
• Education. Grants for master’s degrees in wind energy, with seven graduates. Fifty students completed a course in designing and building small wind turbines, and 421 primary school pupils received learning support.
• Work. Jobs at the wind farm itself. Also, 40 local women were trained in traditional embroidery and helped to sell what they make.
• Wildlife. 152.8 hectares of land restored, bats monitored, a rescue programme for animals, and bird observation towers to reduce the harm turbines can do to wildlife.

How the project is checked

We do not choose or run the projects ourselves. They are selected by Ecologi, and this one carries its “Carbon Project Ecologi Approved” mark.

It is also checked from outside. Ecologi says the project is verified by the Verified Carbon Standard and links to its entry on the Verra registry, where it is project 1041.

Ecologi’s page for this project has no timeline of dated updates, so there is no dated record of results for us to show here.

What Printlogik has funded here

Ecologi keeps a public record of the projects each of its members has helped to fund. That record names this project among those Printlogik’s contributions have gone to, through the Print A Tree Project. Ecologi does not publish a figure for us project by project, so we cannot tell you how much of the work here was paid for by our orders, and we will not guess. Our total across all the carbon projects we have supported is shown on the Print A Tree page.

Ecologi now lists this project as previously funded, so new contributions no longer go to it. Every order we print still helps: the contribution is made for you through Ecologi and goes to the projects it is funding today.

How your order gets here

1. You order printAny order, of any size. There is nothing to tick and nothing extra to pay.
2. We make a contributionEach invoice triggers a contribution from Printlogik to Ecologi.
3. Emissions are cutEcologi funds projects like this one, and records what we have funded in public.

The UN global goals it supports

The United Nations has set 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a fairer, healthier planet by 2030. Ecologi records this project as supporting 7 of them.

• 3Good health and well-being
• 4Quality education
• 7Affordable and clean energy
• 8Decent work and economic growth
• 9Industry, innovation and infrastructure
• 13Climate action
• 15Life on land

Where it is

Oaxaca, Mexico · 16.5°N, 94.8°W

Location	Oaxaca, Mexico
Type of project	Wind power
Status	Ecologi lists it as previously funded and no longer takes contributions for it
Full record	See it on Ecologi