As of October 4, 2025, new regulations issued by Mexico’s National Energy Commission (“CNE”) have taken effect, applicable to the requirements, documents, and information needed to apply for electricity generation permits for interconnected self-consumption power plants with generation capacities between 0.7 and 20 MW.
Previously, on March 30, 2022, the now extinct Energy Regulatory Commission
Mexico’s constitutional amendments on strategic areas and companies, as well as administrative simplification, published in October and December 2024, respectively, have reshaped structural aspects of Mexico’s energy sector. This includes the transformation of the State-owned utility Federal Electricity Commission (“CFE”) from a productive enterprise to a public company, the elimination of the Energy Regulatory Commission
On March 7, 2025, the Mexican government published in the Official Journal of the Federation the new General Administrative Provisions for the Integration of Electricity Storage Systems into the National Electric System (“Storage Regulations”), which had previously been approved by the Energy Regulatory Commission (“CRE”, now National Energy Commission or “CNE”) on September 30, 2024.
Notes on the proposed Electricity Sector Law
On February 5th, 2025, Mexico’s President submitted to the Senate an initiative to enact eight new laws on energy matters, aimed to adapt the legal framework to the constitutional amendments of October 2024 on strategic areas and companies, in addition to reflecting the new public policy
Today, October 31, 2024, the Decree amending articles 25, 27, and 28 of Mexico’s Constitution (the “Constitution”) regarding strategic areas and companies (the “Constitutional Amendments”) was published in the Official Journal of the Federation, and will enter into force the day after publication.
Changes provided by the Constitutional Amendments include:
a) Substitute the concept of
On January 26, 2024, Resolution A/065/2023 was published, by which the CRE issued the General Administrative Provisions on Contributions (“DACGMA”).
In recent months, Mexico has seen an increase in the assignment of electricity demand rights (“kVAs”) as a result of growing nearshoring investments. For purposes of this article, a kVA is the unit that measures the voltage transformation capacity needed to receive a safe and reliable electricity supply. This is important because, as is now
On April 20, 2022, the Mexican Congress passed an amendment to the Mining Law, providing that lithium will now be considered as owned by the Mexican government and that the rights to such substance may no longer be the subject of concessions, contracts, or administrative acts for the benefit of private parties. For this reason