CFE Commits to 75 Megawatts to Belize’s National Grid

Prime Minister John Briceño is back from Cancun, following a whirlwind visit over the weekend where he met with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the head of the Federal Electricity Commission, C.F.E.  PM Briceño was accompanied by senior officials from Belize Electricity Limited to discuss a solution to Belize’s energy crisis.  As we’ve reported over the past few weeks, the country has been experiencing a series of scheduled power outages.  Those blackouts were the result of load shedding that became necessary when C.F.E. was unable to provide energy to Belize’s national grid. The meeting with President AMLO was fruitful and PM Briceño has returned to Belize with good news that the Mexican energy provider will now supply a total of seventy-five megawatts to the national grid.  This morning, the prime minister spoke with reporters regarding this latest development.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“When I met with the president in Mexico City, he invited me to join him in Cancun where every two weeks he goes to look at the [progress of the] Tren Maya project.  And so he invited different ministries and the head of C.F.E. to be able to meet with us.  We had a chance to meet with the president and the head of C.F.E. and they have agreed that they will work with us to continue to provide energy.  As you know, well probably most people don’t know, we have a maximum of fifty-five megawatts of energy that we can buy.  Now what the president offered us to be able to increase it by twenty more, so we’ll be able to buy approximately seventy-five megawatts and we’ll be working with C.F.E. now to run a second line into Belize.”