CFE presents Senate with a 32,000 MW plan and 10,806 MW of priority projects toward 2030

The director general of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Emilia Esther Calleja Alor, presented on October 21, 2026 to the Senate Energy Commission the projects with which the company seeks to reinforce the Sistema Eléctrico Nacional (SEN) toward 2030, a plan that contemplates close to 32,000 MW of additional capacity and a six-year investment of 1.17 trillion pesos.

The appearance took place within the framework of the Second Government Report, according to Milenio, which details that the official presented progress in generation, transmission, distribution and supply and delivered information by federal entity so that legislators know the status of the works in the states they represent. The CFE bulletin confirms that the meeting addressed the expansion and modernization of the grid and the response to demand. The presentation matters for the region because the Mexican grid is the link for electricity flow between the United States and Latin America: what CFE prioritizes in transmission defines the bottlenecks faced by relocating companies, data centers and cross-border interconnections.

The central numbers of the plan, according to the tally of the Morena caucus in the Senate, are:

- Current installed capacity of CFE of close to 64,000 MW. - 20 priority projects that add up to 10,806 MW toward 2030. - Target of 60% state participation in generation, with renewables rising from 24% to 38%. - Electrification from 99.8% to 99.9% with the "Electrificación al 100%" program.

At the same meeting, Senator Olga Patricia Sosa Ruiz proposed reviewing and reclassifying electricity tariffs by region, with attention to municipalities where heat raises consumption, and placed in that panorama the 13 wind farms of Tamaulipas, with more than 1,700 MW, and the Altamira combined-cycle plant, of 583 MW.

The next point of vigilance is the intersection of the CFE package with the legislative work of the period: the senators committed to following up on the strategic projects and the company offered direct dialogue with the operating areas responsible for each work.

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