Mexico’s environment ministry denies permit for Audi solar plant
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s setting ministry mentioned on Friday it rejected a key environmental allow for a solar energy plant that German automaker Audi has proposed to construct at its manufacturing facility within the central Mexican state of Puebla.
Audi’s proposed environmental influence assertion for the photovoltaic energy plant, despatched to officers in late Could, was denied as a result of it requires a regional evaluation given extra electrical infrastructure that shall be wanted, the ministry mentioned in a short assertion.
“From their preliminary conception, a lot of these initiatives require the institution of an influence station, an electrical substation and inner transmission strains,” it mentioned.
The ministry added it can consider any new environmental influence assertion for the photo voltaic plant that Audi submits.
Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG.
Audi Mexico mentioned the photo voltaic panels it hoped to construct had been meant for self-consumption solely and can be used “completely to hold out a part of the ability consumption that allow the worldwide manufacturing of the Audi Q5.”
“Audi Mexico is very respectful of all authorized necessities within the nation, so it is cross-checking the authorization of the already current transmission station with the supply of the extra documentation requested by the competent authorities,” the corporate informed Reuters in an announcement on Saturday.
(Reporting by Kylie Madry and Brendan O’Boyle in Mexico CityEditing by Daniel Wallis, Leslie Adler and Matthew Lewis)
