Current Mexico Energy Policy Harmful to Private Investment, Former CRE Commissioner Says

“We are effectively seeing this administration block the participation of private industry in the energy sector across all segments,” Montserrat Ramiro, former Commissioner at Mexico’s Comisión Reguladora de Energia (CRE), told NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index. “Apparently they think the optimal outcome is total control of the market by state-owned companies. Moreover, they think markets are not necessary or beneficial to consumers.”

Ramiro, a global fellow at the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute in Washington D.C., is the 47^th expert to participate in the ongoing question-and-answer (Q&A) series about the Mexican energy industry. She was a commissioner at the CRE from 2014-2019 and the Chair of the Network of Economic Regulators at the Organization for Economic...