A heads up on power
On our caravaan, we had damage to some rigs due to bad power. It was a 160 V. I tell people to buy either a surge guard or progressive industries protector. I am going to have to be more specific in f...
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I just find it hard to believe that a company as large as the CFE, which supplies power to all of the country including homes, businesses, hospitals, etc, could have such power surges.
In my short 30 years living in a metro area and in the country in four different homes, we have never had power surges or damage to any air conditioners or appliances. Our minisplits hit 12 years and still run perfectly well. I recently replaced one in the bedroom with a more efficient model.
With the rv, we hardly ever stay in parks and plug into just about anything. I guess we're low-tech rvers and have a cheap model rv but never an issue. I don't get it. I think it is park related and not the CFE.
What is CFE
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is a company created and owned by the Mexican government. It generates, distributes and markets electric power for almost 35.3 million customers. This figure represents almost 100 million people. The CFE incorporates more than a million new customers every year.
The infrastructure to generate electric power is made up of 209 generating plants, having an installed capacity of 52,515 megawatts (MW). 22.67% of its installed capacity stems from 22 plants which were built using private capital by Productores Independientes de Energía (PIE).
The CFE creates electric power using various technologies and various primary energy sources. It has thermoelectric, hydroelectric, coal-fired, geothermal and wind powered plants and facilities, as well as one nuclear power plant.
In order to take the power from its generating plants to the household of each one of its customers, the CFE has more than 756,000 Km. of power lines that transmit and distribute electric power.
Electricity reaches almost 190,000 communities (of these, 190,732 are not cities, while 3,667 are). Also, 97.60 % of the population uses electricity.
During the last decade, 42,000 solar modules have been installed in small communities very distant from large population centers. In the future, this technology will be the most widely used in the villages that do not have access to conventional electric power.
As to total sales volume, 99 % and the remaining 1 % is for export purposes.
Even if the household sector makes up 88.39 % of CFE’s customers, sales in this area represent 25.82 % of total sales to the general public. Inversely so, in the industrial sector, less than 1% of the customers make up more than half of the sales volume.
In my short 30 years living in a metro area and in the country in four different homes, we have never had power surges or damage to any air conditioners or appliances. Our minisplits hit 12 years and still run perfectly well. I recently replaced one in the bedroom with a more efficient model.
With the rv, we hardly ever stay in parks and plug into just about anything. I guess we're low-tech rvers and have a cheap model rv but never an issue. I don't get it. I think it is park related and not the CFE.
What is CFE
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is a company created and owned by the Mexican government. It generates, distributes and markets electric power for almost 35.3 million customers. This figure represents almost 100 million people. The CFE incorporates more than a million new customers every year.
The infrastructure to generate electric power is made up of 209 generating plants, having an installed capacity of 52,515 megawatts (MW). 22.67% of its installed capacity stems from 22 plants which were built using private capital by Productores Independientes de Energía (PIE).
The CFE creates electric power using various technologies and various primary energy sources. It has thermoelectric, hydroelectric, coal-fired, geothermal and wind powered plants and facilities, as well as one nuclear power plant.
In order to take the power from its generating plants to the household of each one of its customers, the CFE has more than 756,000 Km. of power lines that transmit and distribute electric power.
Electricity reaches almost 190,000 communities (of these, 190,732 are not cities, while 3,667 are). Also, 97.60 % of the population uses electricity.
During the last decade, 42,000 solar modules have been installed in small communities very distant from large population centers. In the future, this technology will be the most widely used in the villages that do not have access to conventional electric power.
As to total sales volume, 99 % and the remaining 1 % is for export purposes.
Even if the household sector makes up 88.39 % of CFE’s customers, sales in this area represent 25.82 % of total sales to the general public. Inversely so, in the industrial sector, less than 1% of the customers make up more than half of the sales volume.
