President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the start of a dialogue between officials from various ministries with energy self-supply companies, an activity that, according to the new law promoted by his government for the electricity sector, is “illegal”. At a morning press conference, the president said that officials from the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), the Ministry of Energy (Sener) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) will participate in the act, who will convene energy self-supply companies , affected by the reform to the electricity sector that was already endorsed by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
“Dialogues are about to start with the companies that have to do with the so-called self-supply of electricity… In the Law of the Electricity Industry that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation declared constitutional, the so-called self-supply is already considered illegal. It is an issue that has to do with many companies that have joined this system, which is illegal, because there is self-supply that is allowed because the company has a plant and uses electricity for its consumption,” he explained.
In the same sense, López Obrador said that what this dialogue seeks is to prevent complaints from being filed against 10 or 20 large generating companies, in addition to approaching the consumers of these companies to reach agreements, as is the case of the Oxxos.
“A generation company like Iberdrola, which is the champion of fraud, began to sell as if it were the Federal Electricity Commission without permission. It is the one that sells, for example, to the Oxxos. So that’s already illegal. What proceeds is to file complaints, but before that we want to talk, seek agreements with the 10, 20 large generating companies; and also with consumers, who, although there are around 60 thousand consumers, there are about 30 large consumers who buy about 60%”, he indicated. For this reason, the president explained that in the next few hours the companies will be summoned to the talks, led by the Secretaries of the Interior, Adán López, and Energy, Rocío Nahle, and the head of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Manuel Bartlett .
Previously, sector specialists believed that the termination of the electricity self-supply permits, which according to the CFE are almost 240 (of which around 110 would be “fraudulent”), should not be negotiated between the companies and the federal executive because it does not correspond to suspend or enable them, but to the Judicial Power.