The “heart” of the Electricity Reform has already been legalized by the Supreme Court: Gustavo Madero's warning

Gustavo Madero, a senator affiliated with the PAN but representative of the Plural Parliamentary Group, said that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) Electricity Reform will not be approved on Sunday when it will be discussed in San Lázaro; however, he warned, “the heart” of the initiative has already been approved by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).

Using his social networks, the former president of the National Action Party (PAN) ruled this Wednesday morning, April 13, that “AMLO's Constitutional Reform in energy matters will not happen”, this because of the demonstration of the opposition legislators who warned that they will reject it in their vote.

However, he noted that the Court endorsed as constitutional the energy dispatch order amended in the Electricity Industry Act (LIE), which was promoted since 2021 by the AMLO administration, but which was taken to court by the opposition, so that the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) was favored by the SCJN and has one more element to overcome the onslaught of private producers.

This is because, thanks to the reform that was ratified by the Supreme Court, energy will be connected first to the central networks of the CFE (which were described as “dirty and expensive” by the senator) and then to that of the Private Initiative (which were described as “clean and cheap”). In addition, to support his argument, he presented a graph comparing the CFE/IP participation of 2019 with that of 2022.

The image shows that in 2019 the participation of the Private Initiative (IP) was 37%, while that of the CFE, 63%; contrastingly, three years later the IP has a presence of 57% and the CFE 43%. However, the claim that the Commission generates dirty energy collapses, because in that same picture it can be seen that the increase in hydroelectric power plants grew from 2.9% to 16.76%.

It can also be seen that the polluting capacity of the IP increased, as energy produced in combined-cycle plants increased from 34.04% to 45.74%. It should be remembered that combined cycle plants use gas combustion as a raw material to drive power turbines. Likewise, it is improved by combining (hence the name “combined cycle”) the power provided by a steam turbine that is activated as a function of the combustion of the gas.

In addition to this, there is a symmetry between what Senator Madero Muñoz said and the Employer's Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex), because on April 8, the day after the Court's ruling, the business organization recognized the determination of the SCJN, but indicated that it does not coincide with it.

“Since the passage of the LIE, we at Coparmex have stated that this legislation violates free competition, economic competition, generated uncertainty in the market and jeopardized compliance with international agreements, in addition to not respecting the division of powers and weakening the rule of law,” said the organization in a statement.

As if this were not enough, Coparmex also demonstrated this Wednesday, 13, to urge the deputies to reject the AMLO Electricity Reform; however, in the communiqué that promoted its request, they did not consider the new amendments to the initiative, which satisfy nine of the 12 mandas of the detractors of AMLO.

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