SENER

News Summary:

On June 25, 2026, President Sheinbaum and CFE Director Calleja announced a MX$21.377 billion program to electrify 8,247 communities, targeting 99.99% national electricity coverage by 2028 through 45,182 infrastructure works, which more than double the cumulative total of the prior two administrations combined. This program, which SENER unveiled earlier on June 18 as part of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration's launch, operationalizes the "energy justice" legal framework from recent constitutional reforms, pivoting from commercial asset models to state-guaranteed social rights for over 8,247 historically marginalized and indigenous communities. On the same day, Mexico's federal energy and consumer protection regulators, including SENER, issued a joint rebuttal denying claims that ongoing service station closures represented a coordinated strategy to mask a national fuel inventory crisis. Backed by a 9% year-over-year increase in gasoline and diesel sales from January to May 2026, PEMEX and SENER confirmed optimal fuel reserves, framing recent franchise suspensions as routine regulatory compliance inspections carried out by ASEA, CNE, and PROFECO. Previously, on June 15, SENER and PEMEX unveiled a multi-year MX$93 billion (US$5 billion) capital commitment spanning 2026 through 2030 to rebuild Mexico's domestic downstream infrastructure. The initiative targets structural agricultural and industrial vulnerabilities by expanding local fertilizer, ethane-ethylene, and aromatics processing to cover 84% of national urea demand by 2029. Earlier, on June 12, SENER advanced biomethane regulation by creating a technical and regulatory framework, including a new Official Mexican Standard (NOM), to operationalize Mexico's biomethane market. This upcoming regulation addresses a critical institutional bottleneck by setting quality, measurement, and safety standards required to inject renewable gas into national distribution networks like SISTRANGAS.