By KELIN DILLON As the Mexican government continues its quest to give state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) majority control over the nation’s energy market, it has now closed a number of privately owned terminals used to import fuel across the country. In the past month and a half alone, three terminals in Tuxpan, Puebla and Hermosillo were closed by
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By KELIN DILLON As of Sunday, Aug. 1, a new scheme of price limits on liquified petroleum (LP) natural gas has been enacted throughout Mexico, with the cost cap varying from state to state and within municipalities. Thanks to an initiative by the country’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener), the price limit will be set on a weekly basis by the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Energy Secretariat (Sener) on Tuesday, July 27, ordered the country’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) to put an emergency maximum ceiling on natural gas prices in the face of soaring consumer costs. Sener gave the CRE just three days to establish a new pricing system that would guarantee affordable access for all consumers. In
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite efforts by Mexico’s Central Bank (Banxico) last month to rein in inflation through a hike in interest rates, the average price of regular unleaded gasoline hit 24 pesos per liter on Monday, July 12, its highest cost ever, according to the country’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), which is in charge of monitoring fuel
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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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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON The controversial new changes to Mexico’s electricity law will now see the nation’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener) and Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) review more than 20,000 permits granted to private individuals and enterprises in the energy sector under previous presidential administrations. The review will look into permits to operate and open service stations outside of the Petróleos
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), as mandated by a court order, authorized a reduction in gasoline’s ethanol content, which acts as an oxygenating agent, from 10 percent to 5.8 percent, to be implemented on March 10, which experts say will raise the gasoline’s pollution level. The Mexican Association for Sustainable Mobility recommends the use of 10 percent
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Energy Control Center (Cenace) has been planning strategically timed blackouts across the country to help reduce energy consumption following a low supply of natural gas, which have now been affecting parts of Mexico that were never planned to lose power. Northern Mexico mainly uses gas to generate its energy, and the Texas pipeline that brings
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico (Amcham) said Friday, Feb. 5, that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed electricity reform bill “represents a giant step backwards for the sector’s ability to compete, the nation’s state of law and sustainable development for the country.” In a written statement, the business organization pointed out
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