By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) prevented Spanish energy company Iberdrola from operating a wind farm in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. Iberdrola had invested a total of $150 million in the wind farm. According to the CRE, its decision to stop the wind farm’s operations stemmed from a breach in permit that originally allowed Iberdrola to
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By MARK LORENZANA According to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Sunday, June 12, the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “is shifting the country to a 1970s industrial policy” and has resorted to “greater state intervention” by targeting privately owned energy firms legally operating in Mexico and “backing state-run energy giants.” The WSJ
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that a Mexican federal court last month granted a legal injunction to the Spanish energy firm Iberdrola that would allow it to continue operating its Dulces Nombres power plant in Pesquería, Nuevo León, and requiring that the country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reconnect it to the national grid, the CFE has
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 1, the cooling towers of Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) thermoelectric plant in Mérida, Yucatán, collapsed in an incident facility workers say was triggered by a lack of maintenance. Ironically, the plant’s structural failure comes amid Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated talk-ups of CFE infrastructure as the executive looks to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Friday, Feb. 7, that his government will hold an open referendum on whether to allow the operation of a state-owned thermoelectric power plant in Yecapixtla, Morelos. The referendum will be held in all municipalities throughout the central Mexican state of Morelos, as well as in the neighboring states
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