Energy Reform 2025 – Electricity Sector

On January 29, 2025, President Claudia Scheinbaum submitted to the Senate a major bill for the enactment of a package of new secondary laws concerning the Mexican energy industry, and a series of amendments to other related laws (the "Bill"). This newsletter focuses on the part of the Bill relating to the electricity sector, in particular the new proposed Law of Comisión Federal de Electricidad ("LCFE") and Electricity Sector Law ("LSE"). In subsequent newsletters we will address the matter related to the hydrocarbons sector and other areas of the energy industry.

The main purpose of the Bill is to harmonize the secondary laws concerning the energy industry with the constitutional reform published in the Federal Register ("DOF") on October 31, 2024, regarding strategic areas and companies, and the constitutional reform published in the DOF on December 20, 2024, regarding administrative simplification.