Company: SREA
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001032208-25-000012
Chunk: 232

Company: SEMPRA
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 232
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, changes in the priorities and budgets of international customers, which may be driven by many of the factors listed above, among others

Mexican Government Influence on Economic and Energy Matters

The Mexican government exercises significant and increasing influence over the Mexican energy sector and has adopted or proposed additional changes that, in each case, could impact private investment in this sector.

Mexican governmental actions in the past several years in the electricity market include resolutions, orders, decrees, regulations and proposed and adopted amendments to Mexican law that could, among other things, threaten the prospects for private-party renewable energy generation in the country, limit the ability to dispatch renewable energy and receive or maintain operational permits, increase costs of electricity for legacy renewable and cogeneration energy contract holders, and limit ownership of energy assets by private companies. We discuss some of these actions in Note 15 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Moreover, the government of Mexico has implemented Mexican Constitutional energy reforms that will impact energy infrastructure and markets in Mexico. We await legislative action to determine the potential impact such reforms will have on the market generally and our business in particular.

With respect to midstream and downstream activities, Mexico’s Hydrocarbons Law gives SENER and the CRE significant powers to suspend permits when a danger to national security, energy security, or the national economy is foreseen and to revoke permits under certain other circumstances, including for a failure to comply with certain minimum storage and other requirements or for violations of certain provisions established by SENER or the Hydrocarbons Law, as applicable. Recent Mexican Constitutional reforms have proposed to transfer significant powers from CRE to SENER; implementing legislation on these reforms is expected to be forthcoming.

Subsequent to the federal elections in Mexico in 2024 and, as noted above, the Mexican government has begun to introduce significant changes to the Mexican Constitution, which will require changes in laws, policies, and regulations in order to be implemented. These changes have included Mexican Constitutional reforms affecting the judiciary and the for-profit status of certain state-owned enterprises. The changes to the judiciary include a requirement that all judges be elected rather than appointed. The energy reforms have the potential to increase government control and participation in the energy sector and to create novel challenges for infrastructure development and operations. Additionally, a set of six energy-related laws, including modifications to the Hydrocarbons Law and Electricity Industry Law, were submitted to Mexico’s Congress in January 2025. The legislative session runs from February 1 to April 30, and the government is targeting approval by the end of March 2025. These