ACCIONA in the Mexican market

The second largest economy in Latin America (after Brazil) begins to make long-term investments in renewable energy and human development. ACCIONA responds to this profile with contracts and bids across all divisions.

For ACCIONA, Mexico offers strategic international growth opportunities. The Company has taken on several unique flagship programs in the renewable energy, water and infrastructure sectors in the country. Due to its geographic location in North America and shared cultural identity with Latin America, Mexico offers more possibilities for ACCIONA to increase its foothold in other priority countries in the region and to explore business opportunities in areas such as logistics and engineering. ACCIONA began operations in Mexico in 1978 when it opened its Infrastructure office. Since that time, the Company has opened divisional offices in the energy, real estate and water sectors. urrently, the company has 647 direct and 347 indirect employees in the country.

In figures

• Surface area: 1,964,375 km²
• Population: 114,682,518
• Unemployment: 5.6%
• Inflation: 3.1%
• GDP: USD 1.658 trillion (2011 est.), USD 1.749 trillion (2012 est.)
• Per capita GDP: USD 15,113 (2011 est.), USD 15,782 (2012 est.) GDP growth: 4.6% (2011 est.), 4% (2012 est.)
• Language: Spanish.
• Currency: Mexican peso.
• Exchange rate: 1$= 17.42 Mexican pesos (MXN)
• President: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
• Total ACCIONA investments in Mexico: 1.46 billion dollars.

ACCIONA Agua

ACCIONA Agua has been present in Mexico since December 2009 when it was awarded, along with five other companies, the largest project in the water and sewage sector over the next six years (2006-2012): the Atotonilco wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). It is the largest WWTP in the world with an investment of nearly 560 million euros. The plant is one of the largest projects undertaken in the Water Sustainability Program of the Valley Basin in Mexico. It seeks to treat wastewater produced in the Valley of Mexico, where the capital of Mexico City is located. This facility will treat wastewater for 10.5 million residents. In addition, treated wastewater will be reused to irrigate
80,000 hectares.

Currently, nine of the 30 biodigester tanks employed by the plant have been completed and one is near completion. According to CONAGUA, this is a great step forward as these structures initially were not planned to be completed until a few months from now. The biodigesters will treat sludge in wastewater and transform it into fertilizer for the region.

ACCIONA Infrastructure

ACCIONA began to have an impact on the Mexican construction sector after having completed several social, transport and real estate infrastructure projects in the country.

Currently, ACCIONA is building the 236-bed Metepec Hospital, which once delivered, will raise the number of hospital centers the company has built over the last few years in the country to six. Among them is the León Bajío Hospital, which the company has administered for several years through ACCIONA Servicios Hospitalarios HLB. In 2009, the hospital's Quality Management System passed the ISO 9001 external audit, making it the first hospital in Latin America to obtain this certification.

In 2010, ACCIONA completed construction of three hospitals and a medical center for the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) including: Tecate General Hospital (40 beds), Atzalán Rural Hospital in Veracruz (30 beds), Mamentel Rural Hospital in Campeche (similar to Atzalán) and the Family Medicine Unit in Mexicali, Baja California with ten doctor's offices. The rural hospitals are part of the IMSS Opportunities program, which aims to attend to the needs of the poorest rural areas of the country. In educational infrastructure, ACCIONA built and solely operates under concession the new campus of the San Luis de Potosí Polytechnic University, the top learning institution in Latin America.

The Federal Energy Commission has awarded ACCIONA with the design, supply, construction and start up of the Baja California Sur III power plant

ACCIONA is completing construction of viaducts in Champotón (four 200 meter long bridges in the state of Campeche). In the first half of 2011, ACCIONA was awarded a contract to build the 5 de Mayo viaduct for the municipality of Puebla, the construction of the first leg of the 10 km Libramiento de Villahermosa Bypass in Tabasco and construction of the Ixtapaluca Distribution Road in the state of Mexico.

In July 2011, ACCIONA performed works to expand the Salina Cruz Port in the state of Oaxaca.

Major construction activity In Acapulco

ACCIONA is building the second phase of the 52-apartment Playamar Tres Cantos real estate development. In April 2011 ACCIONA was awarded the construction contract for the first phase of the Integrated Citizen Service Center in the state of Puebla. In July 2010 the company was chosen for foundation work and construction of office buildings and a hotel at the Takin Corporate Park in the city of Carmen, Campeche.

ACCIONA has undertaken large projects in Mexico, including the construction of the City of Carmen Convention Center and the expansion of the Campeche XXI Convention Center. Other projects include the Antara Polanco I (offices and a shopping mall), Torre Acuario (a building with over 63,000 m2 of space), Marina Costa Baja (consisting of 250 docks for vessels of various sizes) and Pueblo Marinero (a 120-room hotel and a group of apartments and villas in Baja California). In July 2001 ACCIONA performed works to widen the access to the Salina Cruz Port in Oaxaca.

An innovative project

In La Paz ACCIONA is building the 43 MW California Sur III power plant. The Federal Energy Commission (CFE) awarded ACCIONA with the design, supply, construction and start up of the plant in July 2010. This innovative project will utilize waste from petroleum refining activities to help optimize the crude oil cycle and minimize its impact on Baja California's unique ecosystem. The power plant meets the World Bank's energy efficiency directives and will supply power to 100,000 people in La Paz and neighboring tourist complexes.

ACCIONA Energía

In just four years, ACCIONA Energy has set up four wind farms in Mexico providing 556 MW of power with an investment of nearly 1.2 billion dollars. They will produce enough clean energy to supply one million people and will prevent one million tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere annually. The wind farms created 3,000 jobs during construction and have led to several beneficial initiatives for neighboring local communities. The Company is the current leader in wind power installations in Mexico and is a point of referencein the development of this technology in the country.

These four wind farms will prevent one million tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere every year

Four wind farms in Oaxaca

In December 2007, ACCIONA started civil works for the Eurus wind farm, a large electricity self-supply project for the Cemex company of Mexico at the Juchitán de Zaragoza terminal in Oaxaca. It was, and continues to be, the largest wind park in Latin America at 250.5 MW and has a production capacity to sufficiently cover 25% of the energy needs of Mexican state-owned cement plants.

Eurus was built between 2008 and 2009 and the wind turbines were gradually connected to the grid in a process that was completed in Spring 2010. Approximately 1,000 people worked during the construction phase of the wind farm.

Nearly coinciding with the start up of Eurus, ACCIONA was awarded an additional 306 MW in three wind farms: Oaxaca II, Oaxaca III and Oaxaca IV. Located near the Eurus site on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, each wind farm will produce 102 MW of electric power.

ACCIONA began construction of these facilities in the fourth quarter of 2010 and will have completed wind turbine assembly and follow on grid connections in 2011. The energy produced by the wind farms will be sold to the Federal Electricity Company (CFE).

The Company will end 2011 with a 65% share of total installed wind power generation in Mexico. Despite a forecasted decline in market share in the coming years due to the entrance of other players, it is an excellent base for other company projects.

Globally, Mexico is ACCIONA's third largest client in wind energy behind Spain and the United States. Over 50% of the company's wind farm developments in 2011 have been built in Mexico.

ACCIONA Windpower technology

All of the company's wind farm facilities in Mexico use turbines featuring ACCIONA Windpower technology. There are a total of 371 AW 70/1500 GLI turbines, the most appropriate for projects with high wind power potential such as the project in the Isthmus of Tehuatepec, Oaxaca. The turbines have rotors measuring 70 meters in diameter (the smallest in the ACCIONA Windpower family), which are the most suitable for this installation due to the high winds that are common in the area.

The wind turbines installed in Mexico were built in Spain as were a portion of the blades, a first for the ACCIONA Blades subsidiary. The 80-meter tall towers on which the nacelles and rotors sit were sourced from Mexico, as were other components.