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President Claudia Sheinbaum presented the so-called National Strategy for the Electric Sector. She says that it seeks to strengthen the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) "to provide accessible, reliable, sufficient and clean energy to all homes."
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum presented the so-called “National Strategy for the Electric Sector,” which she claims seeks to strengthen planning for the electric sector, promote energy justice, guarantee a robust, reliable, and secure electric system, as well as establish clear rules to increase private investment.
“CFE will continue to grow, it will continue to strengthen. How? With proven financial schemes, with which we will continue to increase the number of megawatts of generation. And a very important percentage of them will be from renewable energy sources,” said Sheinbaum.
He also mentioned that private participation will be maintained at 46% in electricity generation, while 54% will be in charge of the CFE.
The Secretary of Energy, Luz Elena González, participated in the announcement and assured that in order to reach that 54% of generation, an investment of 19,992 million dollars was made, which she considered "historic", since the previous administration of Andrés López Obrador, which was destined to 35 generation projects, 60 Transmission projects, 41 Distribution projects and the acquisition of 13 Iberdrola plants .
The Energy Secretariat announced that electricity will be brought to homes that do not have it through two new programs: the first, for clean stoves to replace the use of firewood, and the second, with the installation of photovoltaic panels in homes in the north of the country, a project that will begin in Mexicali, Baja California.
Regarding private investment, González explained that there will be three private participation schemes for energy generation: with long-term contracts that can be put out to tender; with participation with the CFE, which will have at least 54% of the investment; and the case of companies that want to generate and use the market to sell their energy "in a legal manner," and that "will have to comply with the requirements of reliability and backup, in the case of intermittent energies, established by the National Energy Plan."
Finally, the general director of the CFE, Emilia Esther Calleja Alor, highlighted that the estimated investment plan for the CFE in this six-year term contemplates a total of 23.4 billion dollars, of which 12.3 billion pesos will be for the generation of 13,024 megawatts; 7.5 billion dollars for the reinforcement of the infrastructure and 3.6 billion dollars for the distribution of energy in homes. |
