Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (Comisión Reguladora de Energía or CRE) on Sept. 10, 2024, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación or DOF), the "Agreement No. A/108/2024 by...more
El Consejo de Estado de Colombia, en sentencia del 4 de julio de 2024, declaró en segunda instancia la nulidad del acto administrativo de nombramiento de Omar Fredy Prias Caicedo, como experto comisionado de la Comisión de...more
La Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) de México, el 13 de junio de 2024, publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF), el "Acuerdo Núm. A/061/2024 de la Comisión Reguladora de Energía por el que se deja sin efectos...more
Mexico's Federal Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación or DOF), on April 23, 2024, published the "Agreement Num. A/023/2024 issued by the energy regulatory commission by means of which agreement a/064/2017 is...more
Two FERC Commissioners are asking electric transmission providers to introduce “cure periods” into their interconnection procedures, hoping to reduce the likelihood that energy projects are thrown back to the start of the...more
A key barrier to developing new RES installations in Poland is the limited power capacity of the Polish power grid, which results in many refusals to connect new installations to the grid. Cable pooling is regarded as a...more
On March 1, 2023, the Resolution A/004/2023 of the Energy Regulatory Commission (Comisión Reguladora de Energía, "CRE") entered into force with the purpose of resuming the legal terms of the procedures carried out before said...more
On October 2021, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador submitted to the Mexican Congress a Bill to amend Articles 25, 27, and 28 of the Mexican Constitution related to energy matters. The purpose of the Bill, named the...more
On July 26, 2022, the Energy Regulatory Commission (“CRE”) published a preliminary draft of new “General Administrative Provisions that establish the requirements for the filing of applications, updates, modifications and...more
On August 1, 2022, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") published a preliminary draft of new "General administrative provisions that establish the requirements for the submission of applications for permits,...more
The United States of America has requested dispute settlement consultations with the Mexican Government under Chapter 31 of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). The consultations are linked to Mexico’s new...more
On June 15, 2022, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") published in the Federal Official Gazette the Resolution No. A/015/2022 by means of which the Energy Regulatory Commission establish the scenarios that constitute a...more
On March 30, 2022, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") published in the Federal Official Gazette the "General Provisions that establish the terms for submitting information regarding corporate purpose, legal, technical...more
While the future of private investment in Mexico’s power industry remains uncertain, renewable energy investors should be aware of current proceedings regarding changes to the law. ...more
On April 20, 2021, the Mexican Energy Commission of the Chamber of Representatives (Comisión de Energía de la Cámara de Diputados) held an extraordinary session to present and approve on the same day a bill to reform the...more
The Situation: In March 2021, the reform to the Mexican Electricity Industry Law (the "Electricity Reform") came into effect. It is a material modification of the sector rules that attracted national and foreign investment to...more
Article 225 of finance law for 2021 dated 29 December 2020 (the "2021 Finance Law") provides for the renegotiation of the feed-in tariffs of approximately 800 photovoltaic power purchase agreements ("PPAs") concluded between...more
On October 7, 2020, the Energy Regulatory Commission (Comisión Reguladora de Energía, "CRE") published in the Federal Official Gazette ("DOF") a resolution (the "Resolution") to amend the "General provisions that establish...more
On July 29, 2020, the Board of Commissioners of the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") approved the "Regulatory Program 2020" (the "Regulatory Program") by means of Resolution No. A/024/2020. The Regulatory Program is a...more
On June 10, 2020, the Federal Electricity Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad, known as CFE), the Mexican utility operator, published in the Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación) the new wheeling fees...more
On May 15th, 2020, the Ministry of Energy (“SENER”) published in the Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación) its Policy on Reliability, Safety, Continuity and Quality of the National Electric System (the “Policy”)....more
On February 13, 2020, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") made public knowledge of a preliminary draft that proposes to amend the General provisions that establish the terms to request an authorization to modify or...more
Two midwestern states are taking up the issue of how to address the expansion of electric vehicles (or EVs) in their jurisdictions. The Iowa Utilities Board recently proposed regulations addressing whether EV charging...more
• The new Mexican Administration has started to study and make adjustments to energy policy and regulation. That work along with rulings from Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) and Centro Nacional de Control de Energía...more
Mexico's Energy Reform, established in 2013, opened opportunities for supply and trading of energy at the Electricity Wholesale Market (Mercado Eléctrico Mayorista or MEM) and the use of national transmission lines and...more