New National Energy Commission Would Generate Investor Uncertainty

Reading time approx.: 1 minutes, 30 secondsPresident Claudia Sheinbaum announced this Friday the inauguration of the National Energy Commission, a new body that replaces the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) and the National Hydrocarbon Commission (CNH), with the aim of rearranging the energy sector under a different mechanics than that of the neoliberal period, as she explained during her morning conference.

The intervention of the Energy Secretariat (Sener) in the technical decisions of the National Energy Commission (CNE) could generate uncertainty among investors, which represents one of the main concerns regarding the start of operations of the new Commission. Many functions are centralized in a Secretariat that has no separation with the political power of the administration in turn, become policy decisions, which do not generate conditions of …