Mexico

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

  Fossil Fuels Nuclear Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other Renewable
Total amount in specific units* 1 211 34 933 46 309 3 758 60 1 211
Total amount in exajoules (EJ) 0.29 222.33 48.44 0.32 0.13 0.29

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS

  1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2016 Compound Annual Growth Rate (%) 2000 to 2015
Energy consumption (EJ)**              
Total 3.76 4.92 6.68 8.27 8.53 — 0.042
Solids 0.23 0.26 0.4 0.40 0.46 — 0.024
Liquids 2.6 3.46 4.44 4.18 4.2 — 0.199
Gases 0.93 0.97 1.64 2.85 2.32 — 0.060
Nuclear - - 0.09 0.06 0.12 — 0.049
Hydro - 0.23 0.28 0.13 1.4 — 0.308
Other Renewables - - - - - - - 
Energy production [EJ]              
Total 5.89 7.77 9.467 9.318 8.261 — –0.022
Solids 0.19 0.25 0.227 0.306 0.288 — 0.040
Liquids 4.48 6.26 6.759 6.101 5.167 — –0.044
Gases 1.04 0.96 1.784 2.204 2.037 — 0.022
Nuclear - 0.02 0.090 0.064 0.120 — 0.049
Hydro - - 0.119 0.134 0.111 — –0.012
Other Renewables - - 0.488 0.51 0.54 — 0.016
Net import (Import–Export) [EJ]      
Total –1.93 –2.74 0.649 1.367 2.210  

TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

    1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2016 Compound Annual Growth Rate (%) 2000 to 2016
Capacity of electrical plants (GW(e)) G/N              
Thermal   10.77 19.23 29.15 39.041 40.37 40.89 0.008
Nuclear   - 0.68 1.36 1.36 1.5 1.61 0.028
Hydro   6.06 7.88 9.62 11.50 12.02 12.09 0.008
Wind   - - 0 0.085 0.086 0.086 0.003
Geothermal   0.15 0.7 0.85 0.965 0.874 0.874 –0.016
Other renewables   - - - - 0.006 0.006 -
Total   16.98 28.48 40.98 52.95 54.85 55.56 0.008
Electricity production (TW.h) G/N            
Thermal   49.13 90.84 145.52 192.09 212.97 218.61 0.022
Nuclear   - 2.94 8.22 5.88 11.57 10.57 0.103
Hydro   16.91 23.54 33.08 36.74 30.12 29.14 –0.038
Wind   - - 0.01 0.166 0.20 0.19 0.020
Geothermal   0.92 5.12 5.9 6.62 6.29 6.03 –0.015
Other renewables   - - - - 0.012 0.013 -
Total   66.96 122.44 192.73 241.49 261.16 264.55 0.015
Total electricity consumption (TW.h)   60.5 107.1 182.8 207.947 212.2 218.9 0.026

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2016
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 58 60 66.3 71.9 78.3 0.014
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) 867.0 1162.0 1717.4 1904.0 — —
Electricity production/Energy production (%) — — — — — —
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 0.0 2.4 3.9 2.4 4.4 4.0
Ratio of external dependency (%) –1.93 –2.74 –3.05 — — —

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2016

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]		 Status Operator Reactor
Supplier		 Construction
Date		 First
Criticality
Date		 First Grid
Date		 Commercial
Date		 Shutdown
Date		 UCF
for
2016
LAGUNA VERDE-1 BWR 777 Operational CFE GE 1976-10-01 1988-11-08 1989-04-13 1990-07-29 78.4
LAGUNA VERDE-2 BWR 775 Operational CFE GE 1977-06-01 1994-09-06 1994-11-11 1995-04-10 80.6
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table 7 is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.