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Mexico has reached another renewable energy milestone. From 600,368 installations across the country, Mexico reached 5,164.98 MW (5.165 GW) of small-scale, distributed solar power capacity by the end of 2025.
All power plants under 0.7 MW of capacity reached 5,189.71 MW. There were 600,651 such systems according to the National Energy Commission (CNE), which means 99.5% of such systems were solar power systems.
More than $13 billion are estimated to have been invested in these projects.
Net metering, where the grid pays rooftop solar owners for excess electricity they send back into the grid, has been a key driver of small-scale solar growth in the country. In total, 593,607 applications and 5,113.14 MW of installed capacity are linked to net metering.
