Enrique Mendez
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, November 30, 2021, p. 17
The Political Coordination Board of the Chamber of Deputies agreed on general guidelines to analyze the presidential initiative to reform the Constitution on electricity, in an open parliament, for which there is still no date.
While this is defined, the coordinators of the banks proposed inviting the owners of the private electricity generation contracts to a meeting to discuss the project. Morena and his allies in San Lázaro have acknowledged that the review of the proposal could take place in public forums in January.
Likewise, in a forum with unions in the sector, the deputy Araceli Ocampo (Morena), claimed that in the past six years the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) be decapitalized to hand over the energy market to private initiative. The most recent blow against the sector was in 2013, during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, with the reform of the Electricity Industry Law
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With these modifications, functions were withdrawn from the CFE, among them the determination of rates and the dispatch of energy.
Likewise, it was forced to buy electricity from private companies, at a high price and sell it at a lower rate, even when there are generation plants that work at 55 percent of their capacity
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The result of this in economic terms, he insisted, is an annual loss for the treasury of almost 438 billion pesos a year.
