Solar Arrives in Mexico Border Town, Could Be Key to Rural Economy Restart Lorne Matalon - KNPR News
go to original February 12, 2015

Solar energy could make a difference for a border town (Robert Hart)

BOQUILLAS, Mexico — The sealing of the border after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, crushed connected rural economies in both Mexico and the United States.

Today in one swath of northern Mexico, a formal border crossing with Texas is the lynchpin of a plan to rebuild the post-9/11 economy in both countries on one rural section of the Rio Grande. But economic rebirth in one small, but strategically located, town is stunted because there’s no electricity in the area.

That’s changing with the arrival of solar power funded by Mexico's federal government. ...Soon an array of solar panels covering an area that's half the size of a football field will store enough power to run the town of 45 families for two days.

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