Mexico Energy Insights
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Your energy audit is now mandatory
The October 2025 ruling for Mexico's new electricity law changes energy audit obligations for large industrial users. Here is what triggers the requirement and the timeline to comply.
What Querétaro data centers should model for reliable power
Before a capex committee signs a power or equipment contract for a Mexican data center, five variables decide the economics and the risk. An independent view of what to model, and why it should...
Solar and BESS against voltage sags in Mexican plants
From April 2026 the Código de Red raises the minimum power factor at the connection point from 0.95 lagging to 0.97, tested over 95% of measured time, for load centers at high voltage and...
Independent review of PPA and solar performance in Mexico
kWh Analytics measured mean availability of 96.4% to 97.2% across 165 photovoltaic systems, against the 99% project models assume, in analysis published on 1 July 2024. In most onsite solar leases and PPAs the...
Interconnection delays will stall new industrial parks through 2028
AMPIP counts 103 industrial parks under construction across 17 states needing 2,500 MW of additional capacity by 2030, and puts the CFE transmission works phase at up to 25 months. End to end, from...
Hormuz shock reaches Mexican plants through diesel and freight
Brent closed at 72.87 US dollars a barrel on 27 February 2026, up 2.9% on the day, and Strait of Hormuz transit collapsed days later. Mexican plants buy almost no Gulf crude, yet they...
Nuevo León bottler cuts energy per unit 13%
A Monterrey bottling plant carrying about MXN 42 million a year in electricity cost cut its electricity per unit produced by about 13% in twelve months, on Mexico Energy Partners engagement data. It had...
How Planta en Control turns audits into savings
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put the first year gain from a formal energy management system at about 5%, with certified facilities averaging 10% per cycle and a spread from 5.6 to 41.9%. The management...
Quintana Roo hotel group cuts energy cost per room 9%
Electricity cost per occupied room fell about 9% over two years across three Quintana Roo resorts that bought an outsourced energy office instead of hiring a corporate energy manager. The figure is Mexico Energy...
Outsourced energy management for industrial plants in Mexico
A Mexican plant drawing 45 GWh a year must file energy data with CONUEE between 1 March and 30 June, and every medium tension load center has carried Código de Red power factor limits...
Puebla auto parts plant cuts its CFE bill 8%
A 24/7 automotive components plant in Puebla spending about MXN 3.5 million a month cut its total electricity cost by roughly 8% in twelve months, about MXN 280,000 a month, with no capital expenditure....
Monthly industrial CFE bill review with BillGuard & Tarifa
A plant holding a measured power factor of 0.85 pays a CFE surcharge of about 3.5% on its energy, capacity and distribution charges, close to 424,000 pesos a year where those charges run a...
The savings and costs of Usuario Calificado migration
A load center at 1 MW or more can register as a Usuario Calificado, but direct participation in the Mercado Eléctrico Mayorista needs 5 MW, under the transitional rules of the Reglamento de la...
Five levers that cut industrial power costs in Mexico
Capacity and distribution charges run about 48% of a CFE medium voltage invoice at a 50% load factor and about 36% at 80%, on the GDMTH tariff components the Comisión Reguladora de Energía published...
How a Querétaro auto supplier cut its CFE bill by 28%
A modeled program of efficiency work plus a 1.5 MW rooftop array and a 1 MW / 2 MWh battery puts $884,100 of projected annual savings against $4,550,000 of capex at a Tier-1 auto...
Air leaks cost one Mexican plant over $26,000 a year
An ultrasonic survey at a Tier 1 automotive plant in Mexico tagged more than 80 compressed air leaks carrying an estimated $26,000 a year at USD 0.12 per kWh and 8,000 operating hours. Repairs...
Cutting the CFE GDMTH demand charge at your plant
Across the CFE bills Mexico Energy Partners has analyzed for industrial clients, demand-related charges run from 30% to over 50% of the monthly total. GDMTH bills them in pesos per kW through two separate...
What Mexican hotels can cut from the CFE bill
CFE raised January 2025 rates for large users on the GDMTH, DIST and DIT tariffs by 12%, the steepest single step in five years. For a hotel on GDMTO or GDMTH, the invoice carries...