Mexico Explores Marine Renewable Energy
Mexico has immense potential for renewable marine energy. Waves, currents, and temperature/salinity gradients can be harnessed for electricity. Researcher is leading efforts to study and develop this resource, focusing on Mexico's powerful Yucatan Current.
Available to be studied and exploited, renewable marine energies are a resource that we must consider in Mexico, a country that, according to data from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, 17 of its 32 federal entities border on maritime zones.
To investigate the possibilities of energy extraction, Cecilia Enríquez Ortiz, professor of Oceanography and Coastal Processes at the National School of Higher Studies, Mérida Unit, of the UNAM, has participated in government and academic initiatives to make the possibility of obtaining them from the seas a reality.
