“The energy reform sought to create a sector that operated as a market with technical criteria and with long-term investor certainty, and that is being dismantled,” Guillermo Zúñiga, former Commissioner at the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) from 2013-2019, told NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index. 

Guillermo Zuniga

Zúñiga, currently an international attorney at the Earthjustice environmental nonprofit based in San Francisco, is the 48th expert to participate in NGI’s Mexico GPI’s ongoing question-and-answer (Q&A) series about the Mexican energy industry. 

“A very important change in direction is occurring and we are seeing a return to a period of direct intervention in the sector, headed by the president, the ministries and the state-owned enterprises.”

In his more than...