Mexico’s highest court said the reform’s prioritization of the Federal Electricity Commission violates the right to free market competition and the country’s transition toward renewable energies
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Hundreds of electrical projects approved by Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission remain in pending development at the National Center for Energy Control in spite of last month’s nationwide reports that demands on the electrical system supply exceeded its capacity
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Electricity cuts continue across Mexico as rising temperatures plague the nation, prompting disagreements between Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control and Federal Electricity Commission over the country’s energy capacity
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By MARK LORENZANA U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, on Wednesday, July 20, announced that the United States has requested dispute-settlement consultations with the Mexican government under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The consultations relate to certain measures by the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), specifically discriminatory energy policies that have violated provisions in the USMCA. According to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just weeks before the summer season begins and after the implementation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) crackdown on private, green energy production, Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control (Cenace), which is in charge of controlling the electrical system, has announced that the country should brace for a series of widespread blackouts in
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By KELIN DILLON While the lengthy and controversial saga between Mexico’s federal government and private sector energy has been going on for some time now, recently implemented changes to the network code of Mexico’s national power grid will once more see the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) given priority upload over the private sector and green energy alternatives. Mexico’s first
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXIXO STAFF After the Mexican government obtained a court order in February allowing it to disconnect two electric grids owned by the Spanish-owned energy firm Iberdrola in its Dulces Nombres plant, the company announced Tuesday, March 29, that is will once again begin operations in the near future. On Feb. 1, after the expiration of Iberdrola’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, warned Monday, Feb. 14, that denying permit renewals to the Spanish-owned Iberdrola energy company would have “devastating consequences” for the companies it supplies. Iberdrola, one of several private Spanish-owned energy firms that have borne the brunt of President Andrés Manuel López
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) just dealt what might be the final blow to the nation’s energy reform bill, implemented in 2013 by former President Enrique Peña Nieto. On Friday, Oct. 1, he sent this latest electricity reform initiative to Congress, a law which would restrict control of the sector to the
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By KELIN DILLON More than a dozen members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) team of assistants have quickly transcended their roles at his side into high-level government positions, a new report from El Universal has shown. The former assistants have been handed jobs in places ranging from the country’s Tax Administrative Service (SAT) to the National Commission
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