Mexico’s national energy commission, the CFE, confirmed Tuesday’s power outages in several states. In Yucatán, outages were reported in several areas of Mérida, as well as other communities including Progreso, Umán and Oxkutzcab. The CFE insists that the power cuts were scheduled ahead of time to stabilize the power grid. Customers on social media dismissed…
The cost of electricity in Yucatán is about to rise once again. Energy sector analysts say the increase is likely to be about 3%. The price hike comes less than a year after a 4% increase in the cost of electricity was announced last April. “On average people in Yucatán pay 17% more than the…
Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission, the CFE, reported that 242 of its workers had died of COVID-19 as of Feb. 8. The power utility also stated that it had confirmed 1,099 cases of the virus within its ranks. Of the currently infected workers 22 remain hospitalized, 12 of which are in stable condition and 10 are…
The CFE acknowledged Tuesday that it provided falsified evidence when explaining what caused December’s widespread blackout. Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission presented a forged civil defense office report suggesting a huge brush fire cut power to 10 million customers on Dec. 28. The state-owned agency denied the outage was the result of institutional incompetence. As proof,…
Mexico’s national energy commission, the CFE, confirmed a power outage which hit 13 states including Yucatán and Quintana Roo. “On December 28th an error occurred in the national charging and power generation grid. This caused a loss of approximately 7500 megawatts,” the National Energy Control Commission @CenaceMexico tweeted Monday. The CFE reports that it received…
A US$130 million wind park on the Yucatan coast will begin testing this week despite a policy from Mexico’s grid operator that would have halted operations there. “We will soon begin trials at the park, and with the encouragement that it will deliver power to the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) as quickly as possible,” Vive…
Merida, Yucatan — A worker shortage connected to the coronavirus lockdown led the CFE to issue electric bills without tracking actual power usage by reading the meters, said Profeco, the government watchdog agency. Profeco’s Merida office has received 165 complaints, mainly from businesses that have been closed for two months, but received inflated power bills. The…
The Federal Electricity Commission, or CFE, admitted that it overbilled customers in Yucatan because they based charges on estimates and not real meter readings. The CFE rectified bills for two restaurants — La Mercadería and D’Leo — whose cases went viral on social media. But it has yet to make amends with thousands of homeowners…
A Cholul nursing home has been hit with a 30,000-peso electric bill and is asking for the public’s help to pay it. Hogar de Anciano Betania MID’s operators said the CFE bill is “drowning” them. Workers there have neither entered or left the campus since the coronavirus contingency began. The measure was for everyone’s safety,…
Good news for those of us stuck inside and using the air conditioner a little more than we normally would. High-consumption households normally get charged a higher electricity rate from the CFE, the national power utility. But after a request from Yucatan Gov. Mauricio Vila Dosal, CFE agreed to charge everyone the minimal rate for…
Electricity rates will fall 30% in Baja California and Yucatan, said the director of the Federal Electricity Commission, Manuel Bartlett Díaz. The savings for both states will be thanks to the natural-gas plant projects promised by 2020, he said. “New devices to generate electricity will be installed … and gas will be guaranteed through a…
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) will bring natural gas to the Yucatan Peninsula in the next 12 months to generate electricity and avoid electrical failures in the region, as well as cost overruns for generating it with diesel. The CFE also announced it is seeking bids for a new power plant in Merida. The power…
As it gets hotter and more humid here in Mexico, we get more requests for solutions that help keep things cooler.
The Federal Electricity Commission, Mexicos’s CFE, received 223,000 complaints from customers who said they were overcharged between 2011 and 2018. But only 55% of those complaints were resolved one way or another. Investigators found that the CFE charged 142 million. A customer in Chihuahua’s industrial section received a bill for 4 million pesos in 2016,…
Merida, Yucatan — After continuing problems with the power grid and a surprise promise from the president, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) confirmed that it will build a new electricity plant on the Yucatan Peninsula. Its location was not disclosed. At a press conference, the CFE’s corporate director of operations, Carlos Morales Mar, said that…
Authorities this week are seeking to quell concerns of impending blackouts in Yucatan because of fuel scarcity.
Cenace issues a followup statement saying the state of operational emergency had “no foundation.”
Mexico’s electric grid operator, Cenace, is preparing for potential supply rationing, brownouts or even blackouts on the Yucatan Peninsula this summer as the region’s gas shortage reaches critical levels. In an official statement issued late Monday, the agency declared a state of operative emergency on the Peninsula, warning consumers of a gas shortage that could…
As we approach the hottest part of the year, it’s time to think about how the intense and direct rays of the sun negatively impacts us.
Brownouts and blackouts are overwhelming Mexico’s electric utility, and customers are losing patience.
A fire and an explosion caused two separate blackouts in Merida on Friday.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that power outages on the Yucatan Peninsula could be due more than just an accidental fire.
The Yucatan Peninsula and other areas of the country will likely continue to suffer “major blackouts” the rest of the year.
A power failure hitting all three of the Yucatan Peninsula’s states was the most widespread outage in recent memory, making national headlines.
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