The private sector accused that the resignation of the owner of the National Commission for Regulatory Improvement (Conamer), César Hernández, this Friday, had to do with the Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle, asked him to omit the public consultation procedure in order to publish the new rules so that private electricity generators have to invest in transmission lines.
According to sources linked to the process, despite the fact that Hernández left office to refuse to omit the consultation, after his resignation, the person in charge of the Conamer office signed for the publication of the “Agreement for the one that issues the Policy of Reliability, Security, Continuity and Quality in the National Electric System“
Shortly before 6 in the afternoon, César Hernández published on his Twitter account @ chdz8a: “Today my cycle as head of @CONAMER_MX closes; I thank President Andrés Manuel López Obrador @lopezobrador_, who appointed me National Commissioner for Regulatory Improvement, and the Secretary of Economy, Graciela Márquez @GMarquez Colin, who proposed me.
The debate began on Twitter, where representatives of the private sector accused Nahle of forcing Hernández to resign due to his refusal to violate the procedures set out in the regulations where a public consultation is requested before publishing an agreement in the Official Journal of the Federation, unless you are exempted for a particular situation.
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The Head of the Office of the President of the Confederation of Industrial Chambers (Concamin), Manuel Pérez Cárdenas, stated in a tweet: “Assault of @ManuelBartlett and @rocionahle to the Conamer !! In his obsession with monopolistic control of electrical energy in favor of CFE, force @ chdz8a to resign. They want to impose a puppet. This country will soon run out of private investments, that is, we are going straight to the hole. ”
While, the president of the Employer Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex), Gustavo de Hoyos, said that “the separation of @ chdz8a in front of @CONAMER_MX is worrying. It coincides with his timely intervention to curb the follies of @Sener_mx and @CenaceMexico against the electricity market. A step back to the order of competition, legality, rationality in @GobiernoMX ”.
The president of the National Chamber of the Transformation Industry joined the debate (Canacintra), Enoch Castellanos, who commented in a tweet “outrageous as @SENER_mx and its owner @rodionahle illegally dismantle free competition in the national electricity sector. @CanacintraMex requires that the laws are complied with. My appreciation and support for @ chdz8 to a professional who would rather give up doing something illegal. ”
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While Fréderic García, former president of the Executive Council of Global Companies, “How do @rocionahle and @ManuelBartlett intend to work for social welfare when hidden costs increase the cost of electricity, increase pollution, put the health of Mexicans at risk and risk the FTAs signed by Mexico? “
Origin of the problem
The federal government wants the fossil fuel power generation plants to start operating, that is, those of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), and delayed the entry of plants from alternate sources.
With the new “Agreement that issues the Policy of Reliability, Safety, Continuity and Quality in the National Electric System” that was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, those who do not yet have permission from the National Control Center are asked de Energía (Cenace) or new investors to invest in transmission lines in order to be allowed to operate, said energy and economy specialist Ramses Pech.
“If you already have permission that you can connect, if you do not have permission, you have to think about making additional investment,” he said.
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They are now being asked to have separate transmission lines and invest in additional plants so that there is no interruption in the delivery of electricity, which would cost them around an additional $ 100 million on any project between 100 to 120 megawatts.
“What is going to happen is that it is going to increase the costs of generating a renewable plant and could be close to the threshold of fuel plants,” so that private investors in the face of so much change and because of costs will lower their investments.
In addition to the fact that with Cenace’s decision to stop the entrance to tests of alternative energy plants, the private sector will take time to recover the investment and uncertainty in the sector will continue.
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