A 21.4-billion-peso plan with 45,182 works will prioritize the Seri people, the Sierra Tarahumara, and other Indigenous and remote communities still off the grid.

This article by Arturo Sánchez and Alma E. Muñoz originally appeared in the June 17, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. National electricity coverage will reach 99.99 percent in 2028 through an investment of 21,377 million pesos and the execution of 45,182 electrification works, which will benefit 739,785 people who still lack access to the service, the federal government reported this Wednesday. President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stated that this is an action of energy justice.

At the morning press conference at the National Palace, Energy Secretary Luz Elena González Escobar emphasized that the energy sector reform approved in 2024 incorporated for the first time the concept of energy justice, with the purpose of guaranteeing access to electricity as a right linked to the well-being of the population. She indicated that the goal is to bring some form of electrification to practically every household in the country.

The general director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Emilia Esther Calleja Alor, explained that national electricity coverage currently stands at 99.85 percent and that 8,247 localities still remain to be electrified. She explained that the plan contemplates a gradual deployment of works that began in 2024 and will continue through 2028 to almost completely close the gap in access to electrical energy.

The official stated that the current administration has already accumulated 17,016 electrification works, a figure higher than the 12,630 carried out between 2006 and 2012. She added that during the government of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 21,645 projects were executed, while the goal for Claudia Sheinbaum’s six-year term exceeds 45,000 works, which represents more than triple those carried out between 2006 and 2018.

Calleja Alor affirmed that electricity must be understood as a right and not as a commodity, which is why historically lagging regions and Indigenous communities will be prioritized. Among the actions planned for 2026, she mentioned projects in the Seri community of Sonora, localities in Sinaloa, Michoacán, and the Sierra Tarahumara, where 918 works will be completed with an investment of 670 million pesos.

For her part, President Claudia Sheinbaum explained that electrification strategies vary according to the conditions of each community. In isolated areas, such as some regions of Durango and Chihuahua, photovoltaic systems are used, while in irregular urban settlements, territorial regularization processes are combined with the installation of electrical infrastructure.

As an example, she recalled the recent electrification of Bosques de Tepeximilpa, in the Tlalpan borough of Mexico City, a community with more than four decades of existence whose residents obtained energy through irregular connections. Now, she said, they have formal service and meters installed by the CFE. According to the President, the program will concentrate much of its efforts on small and dispersed communities in central and southern Mexico, as well as in some regions of the north.

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