Fernando Ibarra Jiménez, president of the Industry 4.0 Alliance, warned that an energy reform is necessary
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There are industrial parks in San Luis Potosí that no longer have the availability of electric power to house more companies, said Fernando Ibarra Jiménez, president of the Industry 4.0 Alliance, who warned that an energy reform is necessary so that investments that are awaiting new rules in the country can begin to operate.
Ibarra Jiménez indicated that the electrical infrastructure in the country no longer supports the demand for energy, both in the domestic and industrial sectors, which was evidenced by the blackouts of a few weeks ago.
He mentioned that in the case of industry, the demand for electric power has increased due to the expansion of companies already established in the country and the arrival of new investments as a result of nearshoring, and has already exceeded the supply capacity that exists in Mexico.
He stressed that “the most obvious case is Querétaro, if you want to put a plant there is no electricity to be able to install it; in San Luis there are parks that have the land, they even have buildings, but they no longer have the capacity to provide electricity, I say this first hand because the Chambers have shared it with me.”
In this way, he mentioned that now the installation of companies no longer depends so much on where it is convenient for them to go, but on where there is the capacity to be able to receive them “and that is a problem.”
In this sense, he pointed out that an energy reform is already necessary, “it is no longer a question of whether they want it or not, we have to invest, so the energy reform must be promoted and supported.”
He stressed that it is important that Mexico has a legal and judicial framework so that there are no abuses by companies that come to the country to invest in energy generation, and that it is the Nation that benefits from the creation of jobs, generation of clean energy, payment of taxes and fair and healthy competition.
And he said he knows “firsthand that there are foreign companies, Spanish, American, Italian, and German, that have already bought land or communal land rights in San Luis Potosí to install their solar farms, and at this moment they are only waiting for the approval of a new reform to understand the rules of the game for investment and immediately enter the market.”
Ibarra Jiménez described it as positive that investors are already prepared to begin operating, and he was confident that the new federal administration will be more open to the generation of clean energy “because (Claudia) Sheinbaum is an environmentalist and a scientist, I want to believe that she understands these issues.”
Source: elsoldesanluis
