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Buying Power in Mexico

A buyer-side handbook on industrial electricity procurement, PPAs, and the Mexican Wholesale Electricity Market. Written for the people accountable for electricity inside an industrial business, it sets out procurement as a management discipline with its own baseline, controls, and calendar.

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Free to qualified industrial and commercial energy buyers. Business email required. 409 pages, PDF.

Vendor-neutralCompensated only by the client
CEMCertified Energy Manager
CMVPCertified Measurement and Verification Professional
ISO 50001Lead Auditor
ASHRAEMember, ASHRAE 211 methodology
IPMVPVerified engagements
Since 2015Mexico City and New York

Inside the handbook

Every chapter opens with a decision and closes with a control

Three spreads from the 409 pages. Every figure is labeled as official data, an MEP analytical framework, or an illustrative case, with its source and its as-of date under the caption. The whole book is written to that standard.

Chapter 1 spread: the industrial electricity buyer’s mandate and final electricity consumption by customer segment, 2024 — Chapter 1, page 7Industrial buyers hold 60.6% of Mexico's final electricity demand. The chapter turns that weight into a procurement mandate.

Chapter 8 spread: choose the right procurement structure, with the legal route, commercial coverage, portfolio overlays and residual position — Chapter 8, page 85Legal route first, commercial coverage second, operating overlays third. A PPA sits inside that structure, it does not replace it.

Buyer toolkit spread: the procurement system, the control standard for every tool, and the 22-tool chain — Buyer toolkit, page 375Twenty-two tools in one controlled chain, from mandate to renewal, each with an owner, a release test, and a downstream handoff.

Pages shown as published. Data current to 20 August 2026.

Twenty-three chapters, each opening with a decision

Each chapter explains the market mechanism, identifies what can go wrong, and closes with a practical control. The edition closes with the MEP buyer toolkit, a procurement system in 26 pages.

Part I

Start with the plant, not the market. Electricity as an operating exposure, the true baseline, and why the load profile is the real commodity.

Part II

See the market from the meter outward. How electricity reaches the plant, why the generator price is not the plant price, and the charges beyond energy.

Part III

Decide which risks to own. The buyer's natural short position, choosing the procurement structure, and pricing flexibility.

Part IV

Create competition and expose the real economics. An RFP suppliers cannot manipulate, normalizing every offer to the meter, counterparty risk in the price.

Part V

Contract for what can actually happen. From commercial model to contract, legal review as buyer protection, negotiating the downside first, signing versus supply commencement.

Parts VI and VII

Protect value after signing and build a professional procurement function. Invoice reconstruction, living contract management, demand flexibility, clean energy without a marketing claim, governance, management information, and the procurement calendar.

Editorial thesis409

pages, one discipline

The disciplined buyer does not need to predict the market perfectly, only to prevent unacceptable outcomes, preserve useful options, and verify that the contract performs as represented.

Authored in the firm's institutional voice. Every visual is identified as official data, an MEP analytical framework, or an illustrative teaching case. The legal and factual record closes on 20 August 2026.

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The handbook is provided to finance, procurement, legal, engineering, and sustainability professionals evaluating electricity supply decisions in Mexico. Enter a business email and an MEP advisor will send you the handbook. If a question in it applies to your facility, an advisor can walk through it against your own bills.

The handbook is a commercial and operational guide, not a legal opinion, tax advice, an accounting determination, engineering certification, or an offer to buy or sell electricity.