By KELIN DILLON According to new data, Mexico’s state-owned electric company, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), has increased its generation costs by 23 percent while in operation under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). While the average cost in CFE plants stood at 1,508 pesos per megawatt hour in January 2019, the price tag had shot
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 3, a number of U.S. congressmen protested against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform in a letter to U.S. government officials, saying that the proposal would violate international treaties like the United States–Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and is discriminatory against both private investment initiatives and cleanly sourced energy. U.S. Republican members
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By KELIN DILLON If Mexico’s controversial proposed reform to give carbon-based energy priority to the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reaches passage, the CFE will be required to heighten its budget and subsequently “charge a bill” to the Mexican government or the shift will likely result in blackouts, revealed a study by the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO). The reform
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The question that everyone in Mexico should be asking themselves is whether ordinary citizens are more interested in subsidizing, with their own paychecks and a reduced quality in their public services, an ideologized concept of national sovereignty as purported by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation (4T), or paying less for
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By KELIN DILLON Just one day after Mexico’s head of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Manuel Bartlett, claimed that private-sector energy providers would not be compensated for contracts potentially cancelled by the country’s proposed electricity reform, National Regeneration Movement (Morena) Senator Ricardo Monreal on Saturday, Oct. 16, urged the CFE and its officials to remain “prudent” about the goals of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico now ranks in first place among Latin American countries when it comes to air pollution caused by electricity generation, according to Cepalstat, a data and statistics platform of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Mexico emissions from electricity are 2.2 times higher than those of Brazil, three times those of
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric reform continues to receive pushback, including the recent rejection of the proposal by 18 members of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI), the executive and his own party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) have acquiesced to being open toward changes to the reform. Despite this newfound receptivity toward
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AMLO’s Electricity Reform Bill
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By KELIN DILLON Officials from Mexico’s Business Coordinating Council (CCE) have come forward to dismiss the Mexican government’s purported lies surrounding its proposed electric reform, saying in a statement on Tuesday, Oct. 12, that their intentions “are guided by ideology and not by technical expertise and rigor.” The CCE’s head Carlos Salazar Lomelín pointed to Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle
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