Cancun, QR – A resort in Cancun is the primary within the area to make use of a Tesla battery to retailer its photo voltaic vitality. The firm SolarFuel put in the battery made by Tesla earlier this week within the grid of a 200-room resort.
The battery will enable the resort to retailer photo voltaic vitality that’s used to energy the Golden Parnassus resort throughout occasions of biggest energy demand.
The US imported battery depends on the vitality provide offered by photo voltaic panels put in on the roof. Andrés Muñoz, Southeast Commercial Manager of SolarFuel, says that the brand new system offers the resort 35 p.c financial savings on its month-to-month elctric invoice.
The firm, with capital from Monterrey, says that in Quintana Roo the resort business is keen for choices to generate inexperienced vitality in order to not rely solely on the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).
Officials are in talks with accommodations within the state to put in extra of this vitality answer.
“We presently have negotiations that characterize the potential sale of roughly $ 500 million {dollars} and canopy about 30,000 rooms that we will land right here in Quintana Roo, from Costa Mujeres and Cancun to Rivera Maya,” mentioned the consultant of the Monterrey agency.
The Tesla battery is programmed for use between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., a time known as excessive demand and doubles the speed for every watt, which will increase the month-to-month billing for vitality consumption as much as 35 p.c.
The system put in in Cancun consists of three kinds of installations that embrace a battery, water heater and rooftop photo voltaic panels that generate 330 kilowatts per hour.
While the entire price is round $3.5 million, the marketing strategy they suggest to the resort business in Quintana Roo is zero funding for the resort in trade for SolarFuel that saves 35 p.c of the financial savings represented by the month-to-month billing answer .
The plan is for a interval of 25 years after which the resort will personal the put in gear and extends the SolarFuel upkeep plan.
The Golden Parnassus resort is the primary in Cancun to have a Tesla battery and a complete renewable vitality system with photo voltaic panels.
The mannequin was introduced Thursday in a press convention of the Cancun Hotel Association with Director Manuel Ricardez and Andrés Muñoz offering technical particulars.
Only 5 p.c of Mexican Caribbean accommodations use renewable vitality and rely on vitality offered by the CFE they report.
