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President Andres Manuel López Obrador has sent to the
House of Representatives a preferential bill to reform the
Electricity Industry Law, which Congress will be required to
discuss in the next 60 days.
Main Topics of the Bill Include:
Modification of the Dispatch Rules
The bill will change the dispatch rules under which electricity
will be fed to the power system in the following order: First - The hydroelectric power plants owned by the
Mexican Federal Electricity Commission
(
CFE or
Second - The nuclear, geothermal, combined cycle and
The electricity industry in Mexico is under stress. The President of Mexico has proposed amendments to the Electricity Industry Law that could result in the undoing of the energy reform.
On January 29, 2021, the President of Mexico sent to the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress proposed amendments to the Electricity Industry Law, namely, an "Initiative with a Draft.
Friday, February 5, 2021
President Andres Manuel López Obrador has sent to the House of Representatives a preferential bill to reform the Electricity Industry Law, which Congress will be required to discuss in the next 60 days.
Main Topics of the Bill Include:
Modification of the Dispatch Rules
The bill will change the dispatch rules under which electricity will be fed to the power system in the following order: First - The hydroelectric power plants owned by the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (
CFE or
Second - The nuclear, geothermal, combined cycle and thermoelectric power plants owned by CFE;
Third - The solar and wind power stations owned by private entities; and
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Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process.
Prud’homme was central to the development of Cenagas, the nation’s natural gas pipeline operator, an entity formed in 2015 as part of the energy reform process. He began his career at national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), worked for 14 years at the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), rising to be chief economist, and from July 2015 through February served as the ISO chief officer for Cenagas, where he oversaw the technical, commercial and economic management of the nascent Natural Gas Integrated System (Sistrangas). Based in Mexico City, he is the head of Mexico energy consultancy Gadex.