The report notes that in the last year more than 900 MW of renewable energy was installed: around 768 MW of wind power, 112 MW of geothermal and 56 MW of solar PV. Distributed solar entirely made up the new PV capacity.

Mexican legislation has set a goal of 25% clean energy in electricity generation in  2018, 30% in 2021 and 35% in 2024. Diverse mechanisms exist to reach those goals, among those the recently introduced clean energy auction program recently introduced.