• PROTEST: Mexico’s largest manufacturing chamber (CONCAMIN) warned that an all-encompassing plan floated last week to strengthen the state power utility (CFE) would impact the functioning of the electricity market and rejected a return to a state-run monopoly.
• NEGATIVE: “Some of the measures proposed by CFE would negatively affect hundreds of private companies, both from the side of the industrial or commercial end user and the private investor in generation and thousands of contracts signed between them”, said CONCAMIN.
• PLAN: Attributed to CFE, a 17-page document appeared in the Mexican press last week. The plan asks regulators to establish limits on new clean energy actors and even forcing self-organized manufacturing clusters to sell surplus power they produce.
• LARGE USERS: CONCAMIN is an umbrella organization covering Mexico’s manufacturing sectors -and therefore the country’s largest electricity users- including the steel producers chamber (CANACERO), the textile industry chamber (CANAINTEX) and the industrial parks association (AMPIP).
