Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is currently overseeing a portfolio of 60 electricity transmission and distribution projects to boost interconnectedness and power supply across the country as it prepares for a boom in demand as a result of nearshoring, according to Ricardo Octavio Mota Palomino, general director of power grid operator CENACE. 

“The CFE is managing a portfolio of important transmission and distribution projects that is going to allow the company to provide better service to all the people who are looking to interconnect power plants or generation plants to the Mexican electricity system,” said CENACE’s Mota, speaking Jan. 25 at the 9th Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum in Monterrey. “These projects have $3.7 billion dollars in financing...