The director of the state company, who received a sea of criticism for the financial results reported by the company, He has said that the program – which would include renewable plants – will be completed before the end of the six-year term. But he omitted to give more details about the location of the new plants and the investment to be allocated.
The Obradorista government has permeated a discourse against wind and solar electricity, which they constantly accuse of being “intermittent” and of not giving reliability to the system. Even that argument was the main launching point for the regulatory changes that continue to be held up in court. “In a few months we are going to make a great additional effort to have energy, but we are going to support the energy that we are going to generate,” Bartlett said tonight in an appearance that exceeded four hours.
The CFE’s strategy, which did not contemplate the accession of new generation capacity through sun or wind, took a turn a few months ago amid pressure from the market and the US government. The first change in direction for the company, which until now only owns hydroelectric and fossil fuel-based plants, took place at the end of last year, when the construction of a solar park in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora was announced.
And a few months ago, in the midst of a series of visits by John Kerry, the US special envoy for climate, President López Obrador announced a series of agreements with US companies to explore renewable projects, of which there have been no more details.
The state-owned CFE would enter wind and solar generation in the midst of a financial crisis, which has been generated by the high costs of fuels -mainly gas- and in the midst of a shortage of new permits for private generators, plants of private companies that have been disconnected from the network and some others resulting from the auctions of the past six-year term that have already been completed, but that still cannot enter into commercial operation.