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 (%) 2000–2016
Energy consumption (EJ)**              
Solids 0.10 0.14 0.27 0.53 0.53 0.52 0.042
Liquids 2.36 2.78 3.49 3.66 3.46 3.59 0.002
Gases 1.20 1.50 2.21 3.39 3.79 4.28 0.042
Nuclear 0.00 0.03 0.09 0.06 0.12 0.11 0.013
Hydro 0.07 0.09 0.12 0.13 0.11 0.11 –0.005
Other renewables 0.30 0.36 0.49 0.51 0.54 0.54 0.006
Total 4.029 4.902 6.677 8.291 8.553 9.159 0.020
Energy production (EJ)              
Solids 0.07 0.14 0.23 0.31 0.29 0.25 0.005
Liquids 4.30 5.71 6.76 6.10 5.17 4.92 –0.020
Gases 1.47 1.48 1.78 2.20 2.04 1.78 —
Nuclear — 0.03 0.09 0.06 0.12 0.11 0.013
Hydro 0.07 0.09 0.12 0.13 0.11 0.11 –0.005
Other renewables 0.30 0.36 0.49 0.51 0.54 0.54 0.006
Total 6.22 7.81 9.47 9.32 8.26 7.71 –0.013
Net import (import–export) (EJ)      
Total –1.96 –2.76 –2.92 –1.58 –0.20  

TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

    1980 1990 2000 2010 2015

2016
2017 Compound annual growth rate (%)
2000–2017
Capacity of electrical plants (GW(e)) G/N          
Thermal   10.77 19.23 29.15 39.041 48.77
52.35
53.35 3.61
Nuclear   — 0.68 1.36 1.36 1.5 1.61 1.61 0.99
Hydro   6.06 7.88 9.62 11.50 12.02
12.58
12.64 1.61
Wind   — — — — 2.80 3.73 4.19 —
Geothermal   0.15 0.7 0.85 0.965 0.926
0.909
0.926 0.50
Other renewables*   — — — — 1.53 2.54 2.94 —
Total   16.98 28.48 40.98 52.86 67.54 73.71 75.65 3.67
Electricity production (TW.h) G/N            
Thermal   9.13 90.84 145.52 192.09 246.60 254.49 259.76 3.46
Nuclear   — 2.94 8.22 5.88 11.57 10.56 10.88 1.66
Hydro   16.91 23.54 33.08 36.74 30.89 30.90 31.84 –0.22
Wind   — — — 0.166 8.74 10.46 10.62 —
Geothermal   0.92 5.12 5.9 6.62 6.33 6.14 6.04 –0.13
Other renewables*   — — — — 5.40 6.77 10.00 —
Total   66.96 122.44 192.73 241.49 309.53


319.32
329.14
3.19
Total electricity consumption (TW.h)   52.301 92.123 155.348 212.774
248.738

260.051
— 3.07

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS BY YEAR

1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2016
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 59.6 59.3 66.1 72.3 70.4 74.7
Electricity consumption per capita (kW·h/capita) 785.4 1101.1 1539.6 1862.2 2055.5 2126.8
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 0.04 0.05 0.07 0.11 0.14 0.15
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 0.0 2.4 3.9 2.4 4.4 4.0
Ratio of external dependency (%) 1.54 1.59 1.42 1.13 0.97 0.84

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2017

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
2017
LAGUNA VERDE-1 BWR 777 Operational CFE GE 1976-10-01 1988-11-08 1989-04-13 1990-07-29 83.4
LAGUNA VERDE-2 BWR 775 Operational CFE GE 1977-06-01 1994-09-06 1994-11-11 1995-04-10 84.6
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table 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.