Guadalajara, Jal. To meet the accelerated growth of energy demand in the state and generate conditions that allow sustaining the arrival of new productive investments, next February the Secretariat of Energy and Sustainable Development of Jalisco (SEDES) will present the first power generation plant projects and transmission lines that will be developed in the entity, he anticipated The Economistthe head of the agency, Manuel Herrera.
He pointed out that these projects already have defined technical characteristics and an investment structure that combines public-private, private and federal capital.
According to the official, the set of projects that will be announced next month will ensure a portfolio of investment estimated at 10,000 million dollars (mdd) towards 2030, associated with the development of energy infrastructure, new electricity generation projects, construction of gas pipelines and the induced investments that arise from this type of works.
“We are going to secure those 10,000 million dollars that we already had in our investment portfolio by 2030. It has to do with all the electricity generation projects, infrastructure, gas pipelines and what has to do with the investments that these projects are going to trigger,” Herrera Vega stressed.
He added that energy is a trigger for attracting investments and specified that the availability of energy infrastructure is a key factor in the decision-making of both national and international companies.
According to the owner of HEADQUARTERSthese projects will generate viability in the short term for new investments, by offering greater certainty about the state’s capacity to supply the electrical demand and gas required by large industrial and business projects seeking to establish or expand in Jalisco.
Manuel Herrera highlighted that the new federal legislation allows energy self-consumption schemes, which opens the possibility of designing customized solutions for large companies with high energy demand, such as the case of Flex, one of the state’s main employers, which in the last year alone increased its energy demand from 20 to 80 megawatts.
“We are able to provide energy to companies that they are suing it, because we must remember that this new federal legislation on energy matters allows self-consumption. So, it allows us to collaborate with the federal government to design custom suits,” he said.
Incremental Demand
Given that the growing demand for energy in Jalisco has become one of the main challenges for attracting productive investments in the entity, the state government presented last December a Study of Incremental Energy Demand towards 2030, with a vision to 2050, with the objective of anticipating energy needs and aligning them with the new federal planning.
The head of SEDES, Manuel Herrera, explained that the new federal legislation on energy matters allows federal entities to scientifically demonstrate the future behavior of their demand, which opens the door to binding planning with the Federation.
