It will illuminate some 60 lights (2 miles of a boulevard) and is part of a bigger wind farm project which will produce 10 megawatts per year and cost 10 million dollars. With this project, the municipality would be self-sufficient in energy for lighting and the cost would be paid in five years, given that currently the township spends two million dollars a year to cover the cost of the electricity that it pays to CFE for street lighting , Plazas and other public spaces.
Involved in the project, in addition to UNISON, the city, the Institute of Technology Monterrey and the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT).
The tower is located between kilometers 1 and 2 on the scenic boulevard in San Carlos, and is equipped with a generator (Proven), of English origin but bought in South Africa.
The next step will be the location of three points on which to locate an equal number of rigs to 30, 40 and 50 meters in height, to monitor the behavior of the air, reported Dr. Roman Miguel Moreno, director of the Center for Energy Saving of the Technological Institute of Monterrey. This task will take at least one year and will serve to locate the exact sites where they would create so-called "wind farms", which would give the town "the cheapest energy in the world," said the specialist.
