Electricity supply has been restored to 100% in the states affected by the “mega-payment”: CFE

After three days of electrical failures massive in various northern states of the country, which reached up to 5.9 million users, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) indicated by a Release in their social networks which 100% of the electricity supply to the homes has been restored.

At 2:00 p.m., the power supply was restored to 100% for the users of the states affected by the programmed and controlled outages.

According to the agency, at least 42,931,595 users from 29 entities of the Republic normally have the service.

The CFE underlined that it has made available to the National Energy Control Center (THE PRICE) all his generation plants, to achieve charge generation balance.

He explained that since the early hours of February 15, several entities have recorded blackout conditions in the northeast, either directly or through scheduled outages to balance the system. Among them: Aguascalientes, Colima, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas.

The power outages which started on the weekend, especially in the northern Mexico was the case of lack of gas supply by texas (USA), an entity that suffered from the extreme cold of a polar vortex.

“This is not a CFE problemThis is a current situation in the United States and one which, due to the relationship and interconnection with them regarding the supply of natural gas, as well as communication with transmission lines, has caused disruptions in the north. of the country, ”he assured in conference Press Miguel Santiago Reyes Hernandez, CEO of CFEnergía and CFE Internacional.

A few days ago the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted in his morning lecture that the experience of “mega-payment” should lead the country to “self-sufficiency” and don’t bring gas from the United States just because of the price.

There was no policy for it because it was decided to buy it, now we feel that we have to try to be self-sufficient; it’s the same with gasoline

In este sentido, el pasado 1 de febrero, el presidente envió al Congreso mexicano una iniciativa preferente that busca reformar la industria eléctrica para fortalecer at the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), empresa productiva del estado, por encima de las energías limpias y las private companies. And he later reiterated that he would not change “not a comma” to his proposal. As the president insisted, the main objectives of the reform are that the price of electricity does not increase and strengthens the CFE.

This has provoked endless criticism from opposition parties and from domestic and foreign businessmen, who denounce an alleged attempt at “monopoly” for the state-owned company. Even the US and Canadian governments have expressed concern about the initiative and the investment climate in Mexico.

It should be mentioned that the president had already promised that such a failure would not happen again after December 2020, more than 10 million users they lacked power all over the country. At that time heCFE accused renewable energy without proof of being “intermittent” and of fire in a meadow in Tamaulipas, a version that the government of that state rejected.

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