Mexican regulators under fire for blaming renewable energy suppliers for outage

Mexican regulators says record grid input from renewable energy suppliers contributed to a big outage, but an ongoing feud against the private sector provides the backdrop

Old habits: Flaring at Pemex's Tula oil refinery, adjacent to a power plant belonging to national power company Comision Federal de Electricidad, (CFE) — Old habits: Flaring at Pemex's Tula oil refinery, adjacent to a power plant belonging to national power company Comision Federal de Electricidad, (CFE)Photo: REUTERS/SCANPIX

Gareth Chetwynd

Federal Electricity Commission CFE National Energy Control Center Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.Pemex

Published 30 December 2020, 21:30Updated 31 December 2020, 00:11