Electric rates will climb: CFE – LadoCulto

This increase is primarily due to revenue from the sale of electrical energy, revenue for transmission services rendered to participants of the Market of Electric Mayorista (MEM) and the partial acknowledgement of the grant to the electricity prices to end-users granted by the Government federal.

The senator pan, Juan Fernández lamented the new increase that the Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) will apply, starting this Tuesday November 1, the electricity prices for the industrial sector, commercial and domestic high-consumption well considered, are another blow for sure to the economy of the country. In the commercial sector increased between 17 and 23 per cent, and the domestic use of high-consumption 17 percent in the same period. It is worth mentioning that this rate went up 4% each year, since 2006 and until 2014. On the other hand, the rate domestic use of high-consumption (rate DAC) recorded an increase of 3.3% from October to November, 2016, is added in the document.

With information from SDP Noticias.

“despite this marked increase in the natural gas price, this fuel is still about 40% cheaper and less contaminant the oil processes generation of electricity,” said CFE in the press release.

The Commission assured that, thanks to the Reform Energy promoted by President Enrique Peña Nieto, these rates fell 2 percent in 2015, in addition to the reduction that occurs during this 2016.

In particular, in the third quarter of this 2016 revenues increased by 14,147 million pesos, that is to say 17.5%, when compared with the income reported in the same period of 2015.

at The end, estimated the impact of these increases in the energy resulted in a increase of 30.9 per cent in the index of the cost fuel used to generate electrical energy October 2016, compared with the same month last year, said.

meanwhile, the electricity prices for the domestic sector to low consumption be kept in November 2016.

The CFE offered that it will continue with its strategy of gradually replace their use of oil and diesel, by source of energy lowest cost and more friendly to the environment, such as the natural gas and energy project.