CFE Reports 37% Fewer Outages from January to July Compared to 2024

Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) recorded 273,452 power supply interruptions between January and July 2026, a 37% decline from the 433,345 logged in the same period of 2024, according to Excélsior. Average restoration time fell from 25 to 7 hours, a 72% operational improvement that also drove down complaints in the utility's reporting system.

Compared with the same period in 2025, the reduction was 9.5%, according to Forbes México, which cited the utility's own figures; Excélsior further noted that complaints in CFE's reporting system fell by the same proportion. The improvement comes against a backdrop where grid reliability in Mexico weighs heavily on industrial location decisions: the border region hosts export-oriented manufacturing that depends on stable supply toward the United States, and demand in that corridor is one of the key gauges of nearshoring, the supply-chain relocation trend that shapes industrial investment decisions. CFE attributed the gains to a national-scale preventive maintenance operations plan.

The 2026 plan included more than 7.6 million preventive tree-trimming actions to prevent branch- and rain-related disruptions, 377,000 insulation replacements, 287,000 lightning arrester substitutions, the replacement of more than 31,000 utility poles, and the maintenance of 18,000 transformers, according to the company. The improvement was distributed across 27 of Mexico's 32 federal entities, all of which reduced their fault records compared with 2024. The steepest declines were posted by Chiapas (77%), Aguascalientes (66%), Querétaro (62%), Oaxaca (56%), Baja California (55%), and Estado de México (53%).

CFE stated it will continue strengthening its infrastructure, intensifying preventive maintenance, and improving its response capacity to restore service more rapidly. The figure to watch is the year-end 2026 comparison, which will reveal whether the trend holds and how it registers in the grid reliability metrics that industrial demand in northern Mexico depends on.

This article was drafted with artificial intelligence assistance from verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.