The Strategic Roll of Nuclear Energy in the energy matrix transition in Mexico

This panel will discuss the historical evolution of renewable energies, commonly called "clean" in Mexico, in the face of the international geopolitics of the Paris agreements, which have initiated a strong call for the decarbonization of traditional energy sources through the use of solar, photovoltaic, hydraulic energy and the transition to green hydrogen. Mexico was one of the three Latin American countries that began the race for a new source of clean energy, nuclear energy, since the start-up of the Laguna Verde plant in Veracruz, in 1990, to date. (The other countries have been Brazil and Argentina) Because it is a country whose endowment of productive factors pigeonholed it in the exploitation of hydrocarbons and natural gas to generate electricity from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day (combined cycle plants), the current energy transition is complex because the historical dependence on natural gas imported from Texas, in the United States,  and the country's large territorial extension, do not allow for a deep energy substitution. Mexico has bet on an accelerated integration of the so-called clean energies with combined cycle and nuclear energy, which forces a necessary comparison with similar experiences in the Americas, Europe and Russia. This panel brings together specialists in renewable energies, nuclear, combined cycle and analysts in international energy geopolitics to try to fill a strategic gap in the future of the planet's environmental care.