MEXICO CITY: An additional 2.4 million people were connected to Mexico’s electricity network in the year ending March 31, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has reported.
The new connections mean that 98.44% of the population now has access to electrical power, up from 98.27% in early 2014.
The electrification process has consisted of 3,517 projects in both rural and marginalized urban areas, in which the CFE installed 8,599 transformers, 48,794 poles and 1,221 kilometers of wire.
New infrastructure projects are also under way as a result of agreements signed with the Secretariat of Social Development, or Sedesol, the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples and local governments.
Of those projects, 2,090 have had resources assigned; 999 of them are in the construction stage and 1,091 have been finished. The CFE’s goal is to make electricity available to 99% of the population by 2018.
Tenders for both transmission and distribution projects were announced in June as part of that process. Three are for 122 kilometers of transmission lines and substations; nine will add 2,933 kilometers to the country’s distribution network.
