CFE contributes 40 billion pesos of its own funds to the 2026 electricity subsidy

The Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) contributes around 40 billion pesos of its own resources to the electricity subsidy, its director general, Emilia Calleja Alor, reported on November 5, 2026, before the Energy Commission of the Chamber of Deputies during the review of the Second Government Report. That amount is in addition to the nearly 85 billion pesos of federal resources contemplated for 2026.

During the appearance, the official estimated that the total support applied to the electricity service stands between 120 billion and 125 billion pesos a year. According to El Universal, Calleja said that for 2026 around 85 billion pesos of federal resources were contemplated and that CFE contributes approximately 40 billion pesos more, covered with its own resources and operating savings. The company serves more than 50 million users, of whom around 90 percent are residential, according to La Jornada. The difference between what is budgeted and what is applied defines how much margin of its own investment the country's largest electric utility retains for transmission and generation.

The head of CFE indicated that the 2026 residential tariff adjustment was 3.8 percent, according to La Jornada. On interruptions, she reported 317,608 events between January and August 2026, a reduction of 10 percent compared with 2025, with an average restoration time that fell from 25 to 7 hours. Calleja acknowledged that there are still communities where recurrent interruptions occur and that the company has to improve service. The same outlet reported that opposition deputies questioned outages in Yucatán and grid saturation in Sonora, Durango, Veracruz and San Luis Potosí.

The next checkpoint is the 2027 economic package, which sets the federal resources for the subsidy and the adjustment to electricity tariffs. The figure stated before deputies provides the reference against which that budget and the company's margin of its own investment will be measured.

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