Mexico City /
The electricity rates are associated with a component temperature and the climate change that is causing high levels of heat, will force the rates to be reclassified in some areas of the country, explained the general director of CFE Basic Service Provider (SSB)Jose Martin Mendoza.
In conference in National Palace Regarding rates and subsidies, the manager explained that there is a heat map of how domestic electricity rates are distributed in which the issue of billing associated with the issue of temperatures makes sense.
“In this last year the climate issue is very representative in the heat wave that happened in July and August, that will cause that next year the measurements that we have from the last three or five years will move to several locations in the country, some very particular states in the north and south-southeast, we are going to have to reclassify them to the rates or temperatures that follow,” he said.
Jose Martin Mendoza added that in 2020 when the health contingency was promulgated, Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) worked with the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)to abrogate the agreement that was in place for the migration of domestic customers to the rate Domestic High Consumption (DAC).
The manager added that as a result of this, users were prevented from jumping to a DAC rate, given that education and work activities were going to be carried out and domestic consumption was going to be inflated, which would affect a large level of the population.
“We still have that agreement in force and the President of the Republic instructed us to still maintain it, that is, not to release it, associated with the fact that consumption is still very representative, because there is still a lot of work at home conditions and the heat wave. that has just been presented,” he said.
He clarified that said agreement will be maintained so as not to migrate domestic services from ordinary rate to DAC. “To give us an idea when we were in the run-up to the pandemic, we had 495,000 customers on the rate DACtoday we have 99 thousand users”.
No increases in real terms
Director of CFE SSB emphasized that through the presidential mandate it was determined that the electric rates They should not grow in real terms, this means that they only have an inflationary impact.
“The CFE and the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) established a rate model that is currently applied to industrial, commercial and service rates, in order to stabilize them and comply with the presidential mandate not to increase electricity rates above inflation, even when generation costs exceed inflation “, he stated.
Jose Martin Mendoza detailed from December 2018 to May 2023, cumulative inflation is 24 percent and the rate increase is approximately 16 percent.
“We have maintained the inflationary issue both in the domestic rate and in the industrial, commercial and service rates,” he said.
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