Mexico.- AMLO assured that he will speak with the owners of Oxxo to end the self-sufficiency of electricity “for good”, since if no agreement is reached, the Federal Government will denounce this company for legal fraud.
At the morning conference on April 27, 2022, the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that his government will begin today to convene the owners of the companies that are identified in the fraudulent scheme of electricity self-supplyso that they stop doing it.
It should be noted that the Federal Government launched an initiative to reform the Law on electricity in Mexico, where it was established that the procedures carried out by companies to join electricity generating companies in order to be categorized as “self-suppliers” is illegal and is considered as part of crime of legal fraud.
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When this initiative was presented, multiple appeals were filed against it, however, after several months, finally the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation It ended up deciding that there was nothing to change in the reform law and that it should be applied as is.
So now in Mexico it is considered illegal for a company that does not produce electricity to be related to another that does produce electricity, to enter the category of self-supply.
“Dialogues are about to start with the companies that have to do with the so-called self-supply of electricity, they agree that in accordance with the electric law, which the Supreme Court of Justice declared constitutional, the so-called self-supply is already considered legal fraud, that it has to do with many companies that joined this system, which is, I repeat, illegal, because there is a self-supply that is allowed because the company has a plant and uses electricity for its own consumption,” he explained. AMLO.
Subsequently, President López Obrador stated that Oxxo is one of the companies that illegally categorized itself as self-sufficientdespite not having plants that produce electricity, so he will talk to the owners so that this illegal activity ends.
“What they did fraudulently, a generating company like Iberdrola, champion of fraud, began to sell as if it were the Federal Electricity Commission, without permits, it is the one that sells, for example, to Oxxosthen that is already illegal, ”said AMLO.
After that, he expressed that it is not his intention to act decisively against the companies, that is, he does not want to denounce them, so he will first talk with the owners so that an agreement is reached and the legal fraud is ended.
“The question here is what to do? The only thing to do is file complaints.but before that we want to talk, seek agreements, with the 10, 20, generating companies and also with consumers, who although there are around 60 thousand consumers, there are about 30 large, large, large consumers, who buy about 60% and the rest are small”, declared AMLO.
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It is important to add that self-supply is still legal in Mexico, however, they must have electric power generating plants to be considered as such.
“We want to talk to them and a dialogue is going to begin in the government, they are going to be invited to dialogue, this negotiation is going to be carried out (…) it is going to be carried out by the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Federal Electricity Commission, so I say it here so that when they are invited to the dialogue, it is known that this is the case, that in effect, we are initiating these dialogues and we are going to seek agreements”, concluded AMLO.
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