On February 5, 2024, President López Obrador sent the Reform Initiative to the Chamber of Deputies. This, in turn, was submitted to the United Commission of Constitutional and Energy Matters for review....more
Investors in the Mexican energy sector are facing evolving challenges, as the Mexican government is making good on threats to increase state interference in the sector through the implementation of changes in electricity...more
Mexico had midterm elections in June 2021 at the federal level (House of Representatives), and state and municipal elections for several entities (representatives, governors and majors). The dates for changes of...more
The new presidential administration in the United States, with its focus on the decarbonization of the electricity sector and having recently returned the country to the Paris climate accord, clashes head-on with the goals of...more
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 Decree by which various provisions of the...more
On February 1, 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent to the Chamber of Deputies the "Preferential treatment initiative to modify the Electricity Industry Law," (the "Initiative"). The Initiative would...more
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....more
On July 8, 2020, the Ministry of Energy ("SENER") issued through the Federal Official Gazette, the Energy Sector Program (Programa Sectorial de Energía) 2020-2024 (the "PROSENER"). PROSENER is a planning instrument derived...more
Following the constitutional energy reform in 2013, the Federal Electricity Commission ("CFE") was subject to an organizational and administrative restructure with the purpose to achieve, among other objectives: (i) to...more