Overview

• State investigations confirm that transmission and distribution faults, not energy shortfalls, underpinned the July 8 blackout affecting over 11,000 households
• Governor Marina del Pilar blamed unauthorized “diablitos” hookups for overloading CFE infrastructure and triggering mass power cuts
• Index president Salvador Maese Barraza warned that frequent outages halt production lines and force costly recalibrations of high-tech machinery in local factories
• Years of deferred maintenance combined with illegal consumer connections are cited as chronic stressors on Mexicali’s electrical network
• The CFE, Secretaría de Bienestar and industry leaders have launched coordinated grid upgrades and resident contract regularization programs to strengthen supply resilience