Collaboration Key to Mexico's Energy Transition: Energy Day

Leaders from Mexico's public and private sectors met at the British Chamber of Commerce’s (BritCham) Energy Day 2025, concluding that collaboration is essential to accelerate the country's energy transition and align national energy needs with international market opportunities. Experts are called to turn dialogue into concrete results.

Panel discussions highlighted that energy is the foundation of industrial development. Experts noted that recent energy planning instruments have provided greater certainty for investment by reducing evaluation times and facilitating coordination. It was emphasized that Mexico's competitiveness as an investment destination relies on combining clear regulations with the creation of local value, such as national content and technology transfer.

Public Policy and PEMEX Strategy

The new public energy policy was discussed as an instrument for social development, not just as an industrial input, using binding planning to coordinate goals between government, companies, and communities.

This aligns with the PEMEX 2025-2035 strategic plan, which is centered on sovereignty and sustainability. The plan includes concrete goals, such as a 44% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and a 25% decrease in methane emissions. A central point of the plan is the use of mixed contracts as a mechanism for collaboration with the private sector, seeking to attract investment and technology to mature fields without ceding strategic control.

Experts agree that energy is no longer understood solely as an industrial input but as an instrument of social development. In this new vision, it was highlighted that environmental remediation, energy efficiency, industrial safety, and occupational health are being assumed not just as regulatory obligations, but as ethical duties of companies to the territory, communities, and workers.  As an example of these goals, specific objectives were mentioned, such as a 90% reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions at gas processing complexes and the doubling of water reuse in refineries.

Renewables and Regional Development

The discussion on renewable energy focused on aligning energy and climate policy. This strategy includes a plan to add approximately 30GW of new capacity between 2025 and 2030, which will be divided into three parts: one-third assigned to the private sector (mainly intermittent), one-third to CFE clean energy, and one-third to CFE conventional power.

The goal, speakers noted, is to invert the current energy matrix, from 35% clean capacity today to 50% clean capacity by 2030. This plan is supported by the integration of energy storage systems to ensure the reliability of intermittent sources and the modernization of existing assets, including 550MW of hydroelectric power, which will have its operational life extended by 50 years. An additional 3,000MW of conventional generation is reportedly ready for development.

Experts highlighted the role of state and local governments and concluded that energy projects are most effective when designed at the regional level and that decentralized planning of infrastructure, such as gas pipelines and transmission lines, promotes competitiveness and reduces territorial inequalities.

The event concluded with a broad consensus that energy is the axis of national competitiveness and that energy security and sustainability are complementary, not opposing, goals.