Mexico’s Sheinbaum Inaugurates Salamanca Combined Cycle Central in Guanajuato

HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Mar.2025) — Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo inaugurated the Salamanca Combined Cycle Central of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) in Guanajuato. The plant will contribute 927 megawatts (MW) to the National Electricity System and benefit an estimated 5 million people in the Bajío area. 

Sheinbaum, speaking on 1 Mar. 2025 during the inaugural event in  Guanajuato, reiterated that soon CFE, a public company of the state, would be integrated vertically again and its subsidiaries would be eliminated.