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Grupo Bimbo managed to obtain the first clean energy certificate (CEL) for decentralized generation in the country, thanks to a joint capacity of 3.2 megawatts installed on 32 solar roofs of its stores and offices El Globo, while that the issue of these certificates increases by 4 million CEL granted by the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) and sold at a maximum price of 23 dollars, at the end of the first year of this new contract.
Regarding the CEL market, Oliver Flores, head of CRE electricity unit, assured El Economista that by the end of September, just over 4 million CELs had been issued, almost all of them from the electricity, which certified the production of nuclear energy, geothermal and even hydroelectric – while the requirement to have at least 5% of actual production with clean sources for all users in the country will be around 9 Millions of CELs at least for April 2019, if up to 25% of the bonds are deferred, as provided in the guidelines for these certificates.
"It is possible that this goal will be achieved as early as the first year of market establishment, as we have to remember that most of the plants in the first long-term auction will come into service in the last quarter of the year. year, "he said.
LECs are marketed by suppliers who buy them from own producers and sell them to their customers to fulfill their obligations. One of the companies that provides these services in 70 countries and now in Mexico is the French company Engie, whose leading qualified sourcing company in the country, Francisco Lorencez, told El Economista that After the last auction of the acquisition of CEL by its Auxiliary Services and Energy Mexico (SYEM) found an average price of between 19 and 23 dollars per CEL in the Mexican market, while those of the last long-term auction averaged $ 7 per CEL.
A CEL equals 1 megawatt-hour generated, certification is done in clean energy plants built or refitted after 2014, said one of the few experts on the subject of the country because according to him, there is no has only eight companies selling CEL. for 40 qualified suppliers of which only 12 are operating and the others will start their activities in the coming months.
Francisco Avelar, global director of financial planning and head of Grupo Bimbo's renewable energy initiative, said the company would reach 75 percent of its electricity consumption through renewable sources in the second half of 2019.
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