The United States is not convinced by the energy reform of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But the only public message from Jennifer Granholm, the Secretary of Energy of the neighboring country, during her visit to Mexico, has been in a friendly tone and with a view to promoting investment between the two nations in the renewable energy sector, one of the President Joe Biden’s priorities.
“We are here, the government of the United States, with two messages: the first is that we see a great opportunity to partner with Mexico to [promote] clean energy from here on out, to be able to make North America an economic area unified with goals towards decarbonization,” Granholm said. “And we also hope that the issues regarding energy reform can be resolved by then we get to this great opportunity, and we know that this is being discussed right now.”
Granholm did not delve into the issues that he hopes will be resolved regarding the reform that is being discussed publicly in the Chamber of Deputies.
But business organizations and US congressmen have made several calls to President Biden, so that his government makes public a position and dialogue with the Mexican government on the reform that would change the legislation emanating from the modification to the 2013 constitution. One day before Granholm’s visit, a letter from Democratic senators and
Yesterday, Thursday, the US representative held two private meetings with Mexican authorities – including President López Obrador and Secretary Rocío Nahle – of which few details were given.
“Yesterday we had two very interesting meetings with Secretary Granholm at the Energy Secretariat, a technical meeting of two Energy Ministers [on] the energy policy of each country, both that of the United States and that of Mexico, with an understanding, with some exhibitions and with an invitation of course to innovation, to joint work, above all to strengthen North America (…). Later we met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and I loved the meeting because there was a long-lasting interaction that the president generated to explain Mexico’s energy policy,” Nahle said this morning.
The public messages were given within a meeting convened by the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) and focused on discussing the role of women in the energy market.
