Comision Federal de Electricidad issued the following announcement on June 19.
This is equivalent to taking 10 million cars out of circulation, that is, one third of those registered in the country at the end of last year.
As part of its "green agenda", in collaboration with the Secretariat of Energy and the Fund for Energy Transition and the Sustainable Use of Energy, the CFE also plans to install 100 additional electric stations this year to the 1,500 that already operate in the country
In addition, so far this year, the CFE has interconnected about 44 thousand users who have installed solar panels in your home or business.
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported that it reduced the emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) by 48% between 2012 and 2018. This is equivalent to taking 10 million cars out of circulation, that is, one third of those registered in the country at the end of last year. With this, the CFE contributes to the care of the environment and is consolidated as an alidade of the sustainable development of Mexico.
The emission reductions of the CFE have been achieved due to the strategy of replacing polluting fuels, such as fuel oil and diesel, with cheaper and more environmentally friendly ones such as natural gas and renewable energies.
The CFE has been a pioneer in the generation of electrical energy from renewable resources. Currently, about 21 percent of electricity in Mexico is generated through processes that are friendly to the environment. 70 percent of this clean energy is produced by the CFE.
Also, as part of its "green agenda" the CFE, in collaboration with the Secretariat of Energy and the Fund for Energy Transition and the Sustainable Use of Energy, plans to install this year 100 power stations that will be added to the more than 1,500 that already operate throughout the country. 41 of them will be ready in July and the rest will be operational in the last quarter of 2018.
This announcement was made today at a joint press conference between the CFE's General Director, Jaime Hernández, and the Government's Spokesman of the Republic, Eduardo Sánchez.
With these projects, plus those that the CFE promotes from other renewable resources, the company will continue to promote clean energy in Mexico. In addition, it contributes to the country reaching the goal set by 2024: that 35% of the electricity generated at the national level comes from clean sources.
In line with the first axis of action of its green agenda, the CFE participated in the 3 Long Term Auctions of the Electricity Market that have been carried out. As a result, 65 new clean generation plants -mainly solar and wind power plants- are installed in 16 states of the Republic. With these plants, the installed capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources in Mexico will grow 39%. Currently, the CFE prepares its participation in the fourth auction that will conclude in November of this year.
As part of the second axis of its green agenda, the CFE focuses on improving all its processes to reduce the possibility of causing an environmental impact. This is how 88 power generation plants of the CFE currently have Clean Industry Certificates, issued by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (PROFEPA). The objective is that by the end of 2018, 100% of the plants obtain this certification.
In its third axis of action, the CFE promotes new beneficial technologies for the environment, such as solar panels. So far this year, the CFE has interconnected about 44 thousand users who have installed solar panels in their home or business. These users can generate their own clean electric power and use the network supply when the energy generated is insufficient to cover their needs.
With these actions, the CFE advances in its central objective, which is to take Mexicans for many more generations a service of electric energy of higher quality, at competitive prices, and with processes more friendly to the environment.
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