Foreign Investment in the Mexican Electricity Sector: Precedents, Characteristics and Territorial Structure
Article from: OGEL 3 (2004), in Energy, Institutional Reforms and Development in Latin America
English Abstract
This article analyses the opening process to private investment (national and foreign) in the Mexican electricity sector, a process that has been taking place during the last three administrations (Salinas de Gortari, Zedillo and Fox) within the structural changes agreed with the IMF and in the context of globalisation. We describe existing forms of private investment allowed by law (independent production, small-scale production, co-generation, self-supply, importation and exportation) and discuss their relative importance within the national electricity industry and their uneven growth ...