Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

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Mexican judge suspends official order that froze opening of new renewable power plants

A Mexican judge has provisionally suspended an official order that froze the opening of new renewable power plants and sparked complaints from some of Mexico’s main allies, including the European Union, judicial sources said on Tuesday.

In a decision dated May 18 and seen by Reuters, the judge said the April 29 order by market regulator CENACE risked distorting free competition to the detriment of the consumer, and Mexico’s commitments to promote a clean environment.

CENACE suspended the plants, arguing that the intermittency of wind and solar power threatened the reliability of the . . .

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