The Effects of NAFTA on Organisational Changes in the Mexican Electricity Industry
Article from: OGEL 3 (2004), in Energy, Institutional Reforms and Development in Latin America
English Abstract
The Mexican electricity industry went through important changes as a consequence of signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and the United States. Significantly, since August 1992, when the negotiations of the NAFTA were finalised, this industry in Mexico changed its model of Vertically Integrated State Monopoly to the model of Exclusive Purchaser. NAFTA establishes the investment opportunities in Mexico for electricity generating facilities classified as own-use, co-generation and independent power production (IPP). This clause specifies that companies ...