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Geothermal energy exploration in Mexico has been going for 70 years but the last 20 years there has been no relevant increase in production and no new fields have been commissioned by the government electricity company. The early stage of geothermal exploitation produced an increase in electricity production of more than 650 MW installed capacity in 30 years and in the next 40 years the increase has been about 300 MW. National resources have been estimated to be close to 10,000 MW but the installed capacity has never surpassed 1,000 MW. Presently, the electricity demand in Mexico has exceeded the supply and the generation with clean energies has decreased to less than 14% of the total electricity production. Therefore, the future of clean electricity production must include a huge growth in the geothermal resources exploitation and this requires the knowledge of the location and the characteristics of all areas hosting geothermal resources. Here, a regional exploration program is proposed using the modern methodologies to serve as a basis of the future of geothermal energy development.

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