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Even without having a large fleet of electric cars, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) will require for the next administration a investment of at least 50 billion dollars for all the electricity requirements that are coming such as nearshoring, he estimated Carlos Lopez Jones, economic analyst.
He commented that only for power generation In addition to what we already have, resources of 30 billion dollars are required, for transmission about 6 or 8 billion dollars and for energy distribution, what is known as the last mile is needed At least another 5 billion dollars, in short, he said, if Mexico wants to make progress in electric energy, it will need about 50 billion dollars.
“More and more we all require more energy, since we all use cell phones, ipads, gadgets And now everything is going to be connected, that is the trend, even the Internet of Things devices are coming, the use of robots that will need to charge batteries, electric cars and trucks is coming,” said Lopes Jones, a specialist in finance and energy.
He stressed that light generation is achieved in large plants, but We need to strengthen transmission which are the big towers, cables that we see on the roads.
He explained that the 2013 reform specified that only the State can do those two processes transmission and distribution, but it is an objective and real question can the Government With those investments, do you have enough money to do it?
Director of the Tendencias platform, insisted that the federal administration will be able to inject only a few 10 billion dollarsso if the sector does not open in the short term as we saw in May and June, there will be more power outages and power shortages, and this will prevent new companies from arriving with the relocation as planned.
“If you tell an investor, hey, come to Mexico but I can’t guarantee you enough electricity, we might have blackouts for three or four months of the year,
Well, obviously I’m not going to invest in the country, I’d rather go to another nation.”
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