Mexico Energy Insights
Research and analysis for industrial energy decisions in Mexico.
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 ch...
Read analysis ↗ November 08, 2025The 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 R...
Read analysis ↗ October 25, 2025Five 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...
Read analysis ↗ August 23, 2025How 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 aut...
Read analysis ↗ August 23, 2025Air 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...
Read analysis ↗ August 17, 2025Cutting 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 ...
Read analysis ↗ June 28, 2025What 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 carri...
Read analysis ↗ June 21, 2025What Mexico's grid failures cost plants, and the fix
AMPIP found that 91% of Mexican industrial parks experienced energy supply failures during 2023, and on 7 May 2024 CENACE declared an operating emergency and shed up to 2,610 MW...
Read analysis ↗ May 25, 2025How one plant found MXN 8.4 million in annual savings
A manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosí cut annual energy cost by more than MXN 8.4 million, roughly USD 400,000 to 450,000 at May 2025 exchange rates, through gas fired peak s...
Read analysis ↗ March 15, 2025When battery storage pays for a Mexican industrial plant
Simple payback on MXN 25 million of installed battery cost against MXN 3 million of annual savings is 8.3 years, not seven. CRE Acuerdo A/113/2024, published in the DOF on 7 Mar...
Read analysis ↗ February 22, 2025What Mexican plants should cut first as gas prices rise
Henry Hub averaged USD 2.19 per MMBtu across 2024 and USD 4.13 per MMBtu in January 2025, with a daily high of USD 9.86 on 17 January 2025, according to the EIA Short-Term Energ...
Read analysis ↗ January 04, 2025What a modeled energy audit found at a Mexican plant
An energy audit at a manufacturing plant modeled 18% lower annual electricity consumption and 25% lower CO2 from chiller controls, power factor correction and a 500 kW rooftop a...
Read analysis ↗ November 17, 2024What industrial energy audits should deliver in Mexico
Industrial electricity costs in Mexico rose 33% between December 2018 and August 2024 on INEGI data. What decides whether an audit repays its fee is narrower than a savings perc...
Read analysis ↗ November 09, 2024What Mexico's discharge rules cost an industrial plant
Article 282 of the Ley Federal de Derechos exempts a discharger from the federal discharge duty in any quarter its effluent stays inside the permissible limits, but only where t...
Read analysis ↗ October 26, 2024Power factor surcharges on Mexican industrial electricity bills
A metered power factor of 0.82 adds 5.9% to a CFE invoice under the recargo formula published in the DOF on 31 October 2000, and the 90% threshold belongs to the tariff, not to ...
Read analysis ↗ October 16, 2024Net zero roadmaps in Mexico and what billing data proves
A Mexican site whose direct and indirect emissions reach 25,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year reports them to the Registro Nacional de Emisiones, so the baseline becomes a fil...
Read analysis ↗ October 12, 2024What sub-metering saves on CFE industrial tariffs
CFE bills medium voltage demand on the highest fifteen minute average of the billing period, so sub-metering pays back by identifying the loads inside that window rather than by...
Read analysis ↗ October 03, 2024What poor power quality costs a Mexican plant
A Mexican load center billed at 0.85 power factor pays a surcharge of 3.5% on its entire CFE invoice under the tariff provisions published in the DOF on 31 October 2000. Every c...
Read analysis ↗ October 01, 2024A four-hour net zero review for Mexican mines
Mining and metallurgical operations affiliated to CAMIMEX consumed 12,200 GWh in 2022, split about 52% electricity and 48% fuel, and emitted around 10.11 million tonnes of CO2e....
Read analysis ↗ August 31, 2024Waste heat recovery economics in Mexican industrial plants
CENACE reports an average local marginal price of 613.63 pesos per MWh in the day ahead market across the Sistema Interconectado Nacional for the week of 18 to 24 August 2024. M...
Read analysis ↗ August 05, 2024Cutting energy costs at automotive plants in Mexico
INEGI reported on 9 July 2024 that Mexican plants built 1,996,136 light vehicles from January to June 2024. The electricity behind that output is priced by CFE's GDMTH demand ch...
Read analysis ↗ June 11, 2024Código de Red obligations and exposure for industrial plants
CRE issued the Código de Red, not CENACE, and CRE is the body that sanctions a load center for breaching it. Any site connected above 1 kV is in scope, article 165 of the Ley de...
Read analysis ↗ May 08, 2024What Mercado de Balance de Potencia costs plants
CENACE settled the Mercado de Balance de Potencia for production year 2023 at 6,549,608.65 pesos per MW-year in the SIN, against 3,184,022.03 for 2022. The obligation is set by ...
Read analysis ↗ April 17, 2024Analytics applications and limits in Mexican energy procurement
What analytics can do for a Mexican plant is decided by the 1 MW usuario calificado threshold in the Décimo Quinto Transitorio of the Ley de la Industria Eléctrica. Below it, a ...
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