Featured in Women at work – 08-2019

Reactivating Mexico’s large-scale sector

The Mexican electric power industry is maintaining its dynamism, despite a collective perception of inactivity stemming from a lack of information from the federal government. And renewables are barely mentioned in the National Development Plan for 2019–2024 drawn up by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

By

Jorge Zarco

20 Aug 2019

The Aura Solar 1 array, connected to the grid in 2014, was the first project in Mexico for which the country’s Federal Electricity Commission signed a PPA with a private company. Since then, more than 3.5 GW of large-scale solar have been installed in Mexico. | Image: Gauss Energia

In Mexico’s energy sector, the National Development Plan heavily emphasizes “Bailing out State-owned Producers: Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE – Comisión Federal de Electricidad).”Although it hardly mentions renewable energy, the National Electricity System Development Program (PRODESEN – Programa de Desarrollo del Sistema Eléctrico Nacional) published by the new government states that …

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