The National Energy Commission (CNE) granted three permits for the generation of electrical energy to the company Minsa, S. A. de C. V., owned by Altagracia Gómez, head of the Business Advisory Council and advisor to President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. These projects will be developed under the figure of isolated self-consumption in the cogeneration modality, allowing the company to produce its own electricity for industrial processes. The permits, issued on December 29, 2025, authorize the operation of plants in three different regions of the country. Photo: Cuartoscuro Archive – Northern Central (Sinaloa): Located in Los Mochis, Ahome. It will have a capacity of up to 1.2 MW through two microturbines of 0.6 MW each. It represents the largest-scale project with a capacity of 1.6 MW (two 0.8 MW microturbines) and an estimated annual production of 14.02 GWh. – Jáltipan Central (Veracruz): Located in the municipality of Jáltipan. Like the Northern Central, it will have a capacity of 1.2 MW and a gross annual generation of 10.51 GWh. Photo: Cuartoscuro Archive For their joint operation, a total annual consumption of over 10 million cubic meters of natural gas is expected among the three facilities. Each permit has a duration of twenty years counted from its issuance. Altagracia Gómez is president of the board of Grupo Minsa S.A.B. Its estimated annual production is 10.51 GWh. – Northeast Central (Coahuila): Located in Ramos Arizpe. AMLO called self-supply of energy a 'fraud' during his six-year term. During his six-year term, then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had a dispute with Femsa and its chain of Oxxo stores for operating under the self-supply energy scheme, which AMLO called a 'legal fraud'. In 2022, following the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which declared the reform to the Electricity Industry Law constitutional, López Obrador stated: 'In accordance with the electricity law, which the Supreme Court of Justice declared constitutional, self-supply is now considered a legal fraud and it is an issue that has to do with many companies that adhered to this illegal system'. Photo: Reuters On December 13 of last year, the new regulatory framework governing the figure of Electricity Self-Consumption came into force. The agreement published in the Official Gazette of the Federation defines self-consumption as the production of energy through plants with a capacity equal to or greater than 0.7 MW, intended to satisfy own needs at the generation site. The regulation classifies this activity into two modalities: isolated and interconnected. For interconnected plants connected to the public grid, the regulation stipulates that surpluses may be injected into the system, but they can only be sold to the State Public Enterprise. In the case of isolated self-consumption, the text prohibits any injection of energy into the general grids, requiring the installation of reverse power protection devices to ensure the physical separation of the particular and public grids. It also stipulates that energy cannot be sold to third parties or surpluses injected under any circumstances. One of the points most criticized by López Obrador is that companies were selling energy to other companies as if they were the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). 'A generating company like Iberdrola, which is the champion of frauds, started to sell as if it were the CFE, without permission, it is the one that sells to the Oxxos, so that is already illegal,' he stated in 2022.
