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Mexico Said Lacking Natural Gas Supply Strategy to Meet Future Power Demand

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Mexico needs to develop a strategic plan to secure adequate natural gas supply to meet a widespread buildout of combined-cycle plants in the country, according to experts.

Bar graph showing fluctuation in Mexico's power demand by industrial, commercial and production sector.

“The government has not yet promulgated a national plan for natural gas supply. There is some excess capacity which can be utilized for the first wave of projects, but more gas will be needed for the government to meet its planning goals,” said David Goldwyn and César Emiliano Hernández Ochoa in a report for the Atlantic Council think tank.

Goldwyn is chairman of the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center Advisory Group and a former special envoy for international energy affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Hernández Ochoa is a managing partner at Publius, a Mexico City law firm, and served as deputy secretary of energy in Mexico from 2014-2017.

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