Baja California

Thesis

September 25, 2026 · 4 min

Mexico and North America: an interdependence to manage

Mexico buys some of the cheapest gas in the world because it is integrated with the United States. That same integration leaves it with 2.4 days of reserves.

Events

September 23, 2026 · 5 min

Baja California in 2026: the power system that arrives at EnerBaja

Interconnection with the national grid, a new combined-cycle plant in Mexicali, gas now leaving through Ensenada and an open storage call: the context Baja California brings to EnerBaja 2026.

Infrastructure

September 23, 2026 · 5 min

Hydrogen in Mulegé: why isolated grids may become Mexico's greenest

CFE is building its first solar, battery and green-hydrogen project in Mulegé. It is no accident: small, isolated power systems are the ones that can decarbonise fastest, and that is SENER's reasoning.

Infrastructure

September 23, 2026 · 5 min

The line that already exists: what a 67 km reconductoring in Baja California shows about grid capacity in the Bajío

At EnerBaja 2026, Covanaro presented the reconductoring of the 115 kV Cañón–San Quintín line: a new conductor on an existing line, with no new right-of-way and no loss of supply to San Quintín.

Thesis

September 19, 2026 · 6 min

The Bajío is heating up: temperature, power demand and what Mexico's hottest cities teach

León has already passed 40 °C and Mexico's grid set a new demand record in July 2026. The Bajío is not Mexicali, but it has less subsidy, less margin and a peak at eight in the evening.

Regulation

August 4, 2026 · 4 min

Vapour recovery: what NOM-004 requires in Tijuana and the Bajío

Gas stations in Celaya, Irapuato, Salamanca, Villagrán, Tijuana and Rosarito must test their vapour-recovery systems and file the report with ASEA in 2025 and 2026. What the standard requires, and in which months.

Regulation

May 26, 2026 · 5 min

What Baja California teaches the Bajío

Baja California is a small system, isolated from the rest of the country and synchronized with California. That's why it hits, early, the problems the rest of Mexico will face within a few years.

Infrastructure

January 6, 2026 · 8 min

One country, five maps: how Mexico is divided electrically

Mexico does not have one electricity map; it has five stacked on top of each other. Who operates, who transmits, who distributes, what it costs and where the price is set all follow different borders, and none of them match the states.