Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, August 7, 2026 – Puerto Vallarta’s business community is escalating pressure on CFE after recurring power outages disrupted companies across the city, with Coparmex preparing a joint working session with the utility and Profeco on service failures and grid improvements.
Coparmex Puerto Vallarta president Francisco Vizcaíno Rendón said complaints from member businesses have increased, affecting small, midsize and large companies through lost operating time and other economic damage. The issue has moved onto Coparmex’s regional and national energy agenda.
The pressure follows another round of local disruption. PVDN documented repeated outages in several Puerto Vallarta neighborhoods on Monday, August 3. The effects reach beyond homes and commercial premises because key parts of the city’s water network depend on uninterrupted electricity.
That link became concrete in July. After a nighttime electrical storm, SEAPAL reported that power interruptions temporarily knocked water sources and pumping equipment offline. Wells in northern Las Juntas that together supply about 180 liters per second were affected, along with the Conchas Chinas booster equipment and wells 29 and 30 that serve El Pitillal. SEAPAL said production temporarily fell and storage levels dropped in some tanks until electrical service returned.
Only days earlier, SEAPAL and CFE had agreed on rainy-season measures. The plan includes trimming trees and branches near electrical lines that feed the Pozo Radial area along Río Ameca and Playa Grande, and prioritizing outage reports involving drinking-water production or sanitation infrastructure. That agreement made electricity reliability part of the city’s water-service planning, not only a household or commercial concern.
CFE also has a capacity project in central Puerto Vallarta. During a June meeting involving the utility, neighborhood representatives and business leaders, CFE discussed a new substation in 5 de Diciembre designed to serve the corridor between 5 de Diciembre and Olas Altas. The project is intended to reduce load carried by the Nogalito and Libramiento substations as electricity demand grows through the central tourism and residential zone. PVDN has also tracked the substation project.
Vizcaíno’s latest comments put that existing infrastructure work into a broader dispute over reliability. Coparmex said members have been told to keep their own electrical installations up to date and their CFE contracts current, but the group argues that customer-side compliance does not excuse recurring failures on the utility network.
The planned Coparmex meeting with CFE and Profeco is expected to center on complaints, outage causes and infrastructure commitments. Vizcaíno wants the utility to modernize its network and address failures that businesses say are becoming a recurring operating problem.
CFE accepts outage reports through 071, its website and the CFE Contigo app. The utility’s online failure-report system asks customers to enter service details as they appear on the electricity bill.
