Things Have Calmed Down At Last

Mexico could build enough wind generator plants on the west coast of Baja California to power the entire peninsula. Wind 18 hours a day. The average Mexican consumer uses less than a tenth of what a US consumer uses in kWh. My last bill for 61 days was 168 kWh

For TWO months.

Try going into DAC rate for awhile and a person will learn really fast the definition of expensive power.

Veracruz state has the only nuclear power plant...

....more specifically, Mexico has 2 BWRs: Laguna Verde 1 & 2. The plan is to build up to 10 nuclear "power plants" by roughly the mid 2020s (BTW: Laguna Verde could be expanded by 2 additional BWRs in the short term). I don't know how many reactors will be associated with each new plant. Anyone know this?

Notwithstanding Mexico CFE's push for expanding nuclear, gas powered (remember: natural gas is very cheap) electrical generating stations are in the planning to the tune of close to $9 billion.

Mexico's current sources of electricity generation are thus: natural gas fired: ~50%; oil: ~18%; coal: ~12%; hydroelectric: 13%; and nuclear: a paltry ~3.7%

As you can see, the vast majority of electrical generation in Mexico come from natural gas and oil fired plants. IMO, natural gas fired plants will make up ~~70% of all Mexican electrical generation by roughly 2025 (pending 2 or 3 more natural gas pipeline projects planned!). It will be much faster to build 20 more natural gas fired electrical gen. stations when compared to the cost of building (and maintaining!) 6~10 new hellaciously-expensive nuclear plants/reactors. BTW, the nuclear waste disposal area is just a few miles northeast of Mexico City (perfect: not much earthquake action in that area, yes ?!?).

Now, as far as foreign Involvement: "A Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between Mexico and Canada was signed in 1995 for the exchange of information in R&D, health, safety, emergency planning and environmental protection. It also provides for the transfer of nuclear material, equipment and technology and the rendering of technical assistance" (cite: WNA).

On edit: Now, back to "Things Have Calmed Down At Last...". Well, all "conflicts" come to an end sooner or later; so why not in 2013? :B

Silver-

Tepetepan, can you quote me 3 phase 100 amp kWh rates (this is a commercial rate) for Veracruz state. That nuclear plant is FRENCH built and FRENCH administered.

Recovery of the RV industry the US will help.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Ask the RV park owners if the bad publicity was hurting their occupancy. Especially down the east coast, Cd. Victoria to Veracruz. Now that CFE has raised commercial electrical rates notably expect higher "tarifas".

I understand your confusion but the Gulf Coast will not be seeing any electric rate increases and, as opposed to the pacific coast, may be receiving a rate decrease. But you do have to follow along with the news daily, read and understand Spanish to follow this story.
As an example, Veracruz state has the only nuclear power plant, dozens of hydro-electric plants and are a supplier of electric to many states in Mexico where as most states are having a hard time just producing electric for themselves. Now all they have to do is come up with an economically feasible plan to pipe fresh water from all our rivers to the states who are dry, arid and lacking services.

Ask the RV park owners if the bad publicity was hurting their occupancy. Especially down the east coast, Cd. Victoria to Veracruz. Now that CFE has raised commercial electrical rates notably expect higher "tarifas".

The drug war was never an issue for RVers. Ever. It was, is and always will be a form of trade embargo originating in the US.
Now that the economy is starting to recover up North, the reports by the media will slow to the usual Spring Break, Snow Bird, Summer Vacation time periods.

qtla9111 wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:
Keep reading. Last time they captured some king pins the wars escalated even higher as they all fought and killed each other and innocents to see who would be the new leaders of the cartel.

Since the arrest of the two leaders, it's been pretty quiet...... We've learned to work around it like they do in Chicago.

Very few innocent people are killed in this. There is almost always a connection.

The media and blogs know how to twist everything to make a story.

LOL, Now that is a great line!

rockhillmanor wrote:
Keep reading. Last time they captured some king pins the wars escalated even higher as they all fought and killed each other and innocents to see who would be the new leaders of the cartel.

Since the arrest of the two leaders, it's been pretty quiet. I worked in Matamoros last week. We went out for lunch, I went walking at night. No issues. People shopping for school uniforms, new hotels and strip malls going up, city workers cleaning streets, etc. We've learned to work around it like they do in Chicago.

Very few innocent people are killed in this. There is almost always a connection. You may poo-poo my comments, but I lived through one of the worst times in one of the worst places. So bad it was profiled on 60 minutes. Never have seen anything or heard anything yet. I lived right in the middle of it.

The media and blogs know how to twist everything to make a story.

Keep reading. Last time they captured some king pins the wars escalated even higher as they all fought and killed each other and innocents to see who would be the new leaders of the cartel.