With this keynote research presentation co-presented by Wood Mackenzie’s Latin America solar and wind experts, we will break down the implications of the auction cancellation, measuring how its shockwaves will condition investment and project finance in the short-and-mid-term (in current project portfolios).
The presentation will include our forecasts for solar and wind project pipelines past 2020.
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Research Keynote: Demystifying Mexican Large-Scale Renewable Development in the AMLO Era
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Mexico Power & Renewables
Forum
Demystifying Renewable Development in the
AMLO EraLeila Garcia da Fonseca
Solar & Wind O&M – Senior Manager
Leila.garcia@woodmac.com
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Market evolutions and
technology revolutions have
disrupted legacy business
models, creating a new energy
landscape
The Power Market of the Past
A top-down, flow from supply to demand
Dispatchable
Generation
Transmission Distribution
End
Customers
Tomorrow’s Decarbonized and Decentralized Power Market
A bi-directional energy network with new technologies and actors at every node reshaping power market planning and
operations
Dispatchable
Generation
Transmission Distribution End Customers
Intermittent
Generation
Energy
Storage
Advanced Metering
Infrastructure
Distributed
Generation
Electric
Vehicles
Connected
Devices
Demand Side
Management
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Power industry political decisions during the Lopez Obrador presidency
Timeline 2018-2019
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
The fourth long-term
power auction is officially
put on hold to allow the
incoming government of
AMLO to review it
CFE cancels tenders for
a major Oaxaca HVDC
transmission line and grid
integration of the Baja
California system
CFE head Manuel
Bartlett announces that it
may scrutinize prior
auction contracts despite
SENER’s assurances
AMLO enters office
MOU signed with
HydroQuebec to double
hydroelectric production
CFE approves a strategic
plan for 13GW of
capacity without
stipulating any renewable
-specific generation
CENACE cancels the
fourth long-term power
auction at the behest of
CFE, which does not
want to purchase
electricity
Nov. ‘18 Dec. ‘18 Jan. ‘19 Feb. ‘19 Mar. ‘19 Apr. ‘19
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80
20
55
45
50
70
75
25
65
30
35
40
60
0
$43
Yuc.
(USD/MWh)
Yuc.
1st auction 2nd auction
$41
$19
$33
$22
$65 $58
3rd auction
$36
Strategies used in previous auctions to achieve
low bid levels is increasingly unsustainable as
grid evacuation capacity is constrained and
PV LCOE continues to fall. Developers are
increasingly grid-constrained in submitting
projects in the regions with the best wind
resource whereas PV is more regionally
diversified
Although near-term wholesale market pricing is
an attractive revenue stream, it will fall through
the outlook. Natural gas supply will increase as
international pipelines are complete and drive
down the cost of generation.
Freeze on new long-term auctions impacts PV more negatively than wind power
Wind would struggle to compete against PV without new grid capacity despite results from the 3rd auction round
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
Wind PPA range
Solar LCOE range 2018 to 2024
Wind LCOE range 2018 to 2023
PV PPA range
Average price on top (USD/MWh)
Results of Mexico’s first three long-term power auctions, 2016 and 2017
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Cancellation of transmission tenders and CFE strategy threaten primarily wind
and to some extent solar development
Abandonment of critical transmission upgrades constricts the supply of competitive wind
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, SENER
Cancellation of public tender for transmission line
in Oaxaca and Mexico City area limits the
development of 3GW of wind by 2024
Several grid investments grow grid export
volume southward from northern states,
illustrating the need to expand transmission
capacity for wheeling electricity from net-
generation heavy states towards areas
without sufficient local capacity to drive
down nodal pricing in central Mexico
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Solar geographic resource dispersal limits PV developers’ exposure to grid
constraints
Footprint of auction-enabled wind power and PV projects
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, CENACE
226MWYucatan 518MW
23MWBaja California Sur
Wind
Solar
794MWTamaulipas
397MWGuanajuato
1,084MWAguascalientes
100MWJalisco
252MWOaxaca
493MWNuevo Leon
41MWBaja California
893MWSonora
378MWChihuahua
S.L.P. 300MW
70MWMorelos
764MWCoahuila 350MW
200MWTlaxcala
41MW
378MW
764MW
893MW
23MW23MW
1,084MW 300MW
518MW
397MW
200MW
70MW
100MW
Solar power developers submitted
successful bids across twelve Mexican
states, whereas winning wind power
bids were confined to just five
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A concentration of gas infrastructure and generation depresses nodal pricing in
the northeast region
Barriers for further renewable energy development (2/2)
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, CENAGAS, CFE, public announcements
Delays in pipeline construction contributed to
wholesale power pricing spikes in 2017 and
2018 as Mexico was forced to rely on more
expensive LNG imports.
Pipeline capacity and gas-fired generation are
highly concentrated in the northeast and so is
wind: 79% of all wind power sold at auctions.
Upside in the wind outlook is constrained by this
gas infrastructure, which depresses nodal
power pricing
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Northern nodal pricing already impacted by the import of inexpensive shale gas
Depressed nodal pricing in the northeast will push development southward towards more lucrative zones
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, CENACE
Local marginal pricing by load zone, January to June 2019Average LMP full YTD thru June
922
1,121
1,128
1,576
1,682
1,815
2,496
Noroeste
Norte
Noreste
Occidental
Central
Oriental
Peninsular
778
Baja California
2,786
Baja California
Sur
Price (MXN/MWh)
800 3500
~Price (US $/MWh)
42 184
Percentage change of local marginal price change June: 2019 vs. 2018YoY LMP changes June 2019 vs. June 2018
-60.4%
-55.3%
-32.6%
-31.0%
-21.0%
-15.0%
5.9%
Noroeste
Norte
Noreste
Occidental
Central
Oriental
Peninsular
-12.5%
Baja California
-19.8%
Baja California
Sur
YoY Percent Change
-5% 5%
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Competitive wind power will continue to capture bilateral contract demand and
solar will likely continue to bet on merchant strategy
Average LMPs by load zone, average CFE tariffs, wind & solar LOCE, Jan ‘16 -June ‘19
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, CENACE
Jan-18 Jul-18 Jan-19 Jul-19
120
0
40
60
70
50
130
Jan-17Jul-16Jan-16
100
80
90
Jul-17
110
(USD/MWh)
Northeast LMP average
Wind LCOE range 2018 to 2023
Oriental LMP average
National LMP average
CFE C&I industrial tariff range 2018
Solar LCOE range 2018 to 2023
High CFE tariffs for large offtakers and
specific nodal marginal prices will drive
demand for bilateral contracts
Wind power LCOE is still competitive in
northeast states despite lower electricity
pricing in the region
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C&I offtake has been the primary support mechanism of wind power development
and are expected to continue to be while auctions are not resumed
Annual wind power capacity additions by market mechanism, 2007 to 2024e
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
500
1,000
0
2,000
1,500
100%
’10
99%
’12
8%
92%
’13 ’19e ’21e’14
22%
’11’09
100%
’16’07 ’23e
100%
74%
’17
63%
(MW)
10%
’18
63%
9%
46%
45%
’20e
100%
67%
37%
33%
’22e
100% 100%
26%
’24e
100%
15%
’15
90%
CFEExport Auction C&I
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Auctions were the main enabler for utility solar PV boom in Mexico. However by
2024 Wood Mackenzie expects that more than half of installations will come from
C&I and merchant projects
Annual solar power capacity additions by market mechanism, 2016 to 2024e
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
2,500
0
500
1,500
1,000
2,000
’18
59%
66%
1%
33%
’21e
31%
’19e
(MW)
67%
23%
’16 ’23e
43%
54%
85%
66%
’22e
170
73%
’20e
4%1%
75%
2% 4%
’24e
41%
1%
30%
20%
’17
5%
Export
C&IAuction
Merchant projects
CFE
Future procurement rounds
14. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Potential growth for C&I offtake for wind power developers remains substantial
C&I market opportunity for renewables, 2018 to 2028
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
208
128
62
18
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
220
(TWh)
Residential
demand
CFE clients Cogen, small
offtakers,
agricultural
demand
C&I market
potential
(2018)
156
30
Load growth
thru 2028
Wind
outlook
(2019 to
2028)
C&I market
potential
(2028)
10%
The equivalent
of 16TWh or
4.5GW of new
wind capacity
through 2028
PV captures a
larger share of
this segment with
6.6GW of new
sites through 2024
The C&I market is more
favourable to wind power
developers than auctions and
provides greater upside to
sustained development
Wood Mackenzie expects a
higher percentage of C&I clients
to opt for PV due to its cost
advantage and higher daytime
production
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Wind power will see a decrease of 2.5GW in capacity over the next 10 years –
almost 20% of the original forecast
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
810
1,420
1,225
945 980 950
830 800 800 825 800
707
1,695
1,160
750
375
325
415 455
525
725
790
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2020 20242022 2023 202820272018 202620252021
MW
2019
+19%
-5%
-21% -62% -66%
-6%
-8%
-50% -43% -34% -12% -1%
Previous forecast
Current forecast
Wind power forecast, before and after AMLO
16. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Despite auction cancelation, 15 GW of installed PV capacity is expected to
connect between 2019 and 2028
Wind power forecast, before and after AMLO
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
1,551
1,924
1,557 1,549
1,637 1,623
2,250
1,380
840
750
1,290
1,551
2,044
2,117
1,035
964 1,018 1,079
1,880
1,400
1,506
2,148
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
2022 20272021 202620202018 2023 20282019 2024 2025
+6%
+36%
-33%
-41% -37%
+1%
-52%
+36%
+67%
+101%
+67%
Current Forecast
Previous Forecast
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Solar will win out the renewable battle versus wind
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
Wind and solar power forecast, 2019e-2028e (MW)
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
4,500
202520232018 2019 2021
27%
2020
65%
2022 2024 20282026 2027
2,258
68%
1,925
3,739
3,277
1,785
1,339
42%
1,343
55%
1,494
2,335 2,231
28%
2,938
72% 72%
31%
24%28%
69%
45%
35%
58%
76%
19%
73%
81%
73%
32% 27%
-3%
Solar (MWdc) Wind (MW)
18. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Auction abandonment dooms Mexico to miss its 35% clean generation goal.
Hydroelectric expansion plan and C&I-supported wind and PV will be insufficient
to reach the 2024 target
Forecast progress towards the 2024 clean generation target
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
22 26 29 30 31 32
15
21
25 29 34 38
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
’24e
(TWh)
’19e ’21e’20e ’22e ’23e
Efficient cogen BiomassGeothermal Nuclear PV Hydro Wind
35% Target
22 26 29 33 36 39
7
9
12
16
21
26
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
’19e
(TWh)
’20e ’21e ’22e ’23e ’24e
35% Target
Expected changes based on
current administration
approach
13% over capacity 2% short
The cancellation of the fourth long-term power auction, originally scheduled for November 2018, has a greater impact on PV development compared to wind because of the price-focused structure of the mechanism
Wind power could have been shut out entirely in the fourth round by PV
World-record wind power bid levels were achieved in the 2017 auction through co-siting projects with adjacent sites with higher PPAs, economies of scale and aggressive merchant tail assumption, which supported developers submitting offers from ~18 USD/MWh to 22 USD/MWh, below the LCOE of wind power
Enel, one of the two winners along with Engie, will likely sell its projects once operational as part of its develop, build, operate strategy
This strategy is increasingly unsustainable as grid evacuation capacity is constrained and PV LCOE continues to fall
Developers are increasingly grid-constrained in submitting projects in the regions with the best wind resource whereas PV is more regionally diversified
Although near-term wholesale market pricing is an attractive revenue stream, it will fall through the outlook. Natural gas supply will increase as international pipelines are complete and drive down the cost of generation.
Wood Mackenzie expects auctions to return to support build in the second half of the outlook
The abandonment of critical transmission upgrades would constrict the supply of competitive wind projects
CFE announced in January 2019 the cancellation of a public tender for a long-distance HVDC transmission line between wind-rich Ixtepec, Oaxaca and the metropolitan Mexico City area
The project would have enabled the development of an additional 3GW of low cost wind power capacity by 2024
A replacement grid upgrade in the region will still be necessary although it would be built directly by CFE and smaller in scope
Various grid upgrades that would support wind power deployment in northeast states were planned for 2020 to 2022 in the 2018 version of PRODESEN, however this 15-year planning document was published before Lopez Obrador’s government
Several of the largest planned grid investments grow grid export volume southward from northern states, illustrating the need to expand transmission capacity for wheeling electricity from net-generation heavy states towards areas without sufficient local capacity to drive down nodal pricing in central Mexico
Transmission upgrades are necessary between the Yucatan Peninsula and the rest of Mexico to prevent more blackouts
The current strategy and threatens to undermine necessary grid upgrades that would facilitate the incorporation of new capacity by private generators
Gas supply in Mexico has historically been constrained by insufficient import infrastructure, which has created periods of shortage
The supply-demand disparity dynamic and abundance of low-cost shale gas in the US spurred investment in multiple international pipelines, which began coming online in 2017 and will be mostly complete by Q4 2019
Delays in pipeline construction contributed to wholesale power pricing spikes in 2017 and 2018 as Mexico was forced to rely on more expensive LNG imports
Pipeline capacity and gas-fired generation are highly concentrated in the northeast
There is a strong wind resource in this region: wind bids at the long-term auctions were highly concentrated in three northeast border states, which accounted for 79% of all wind power sold
Upside in the wind outlook is constrained by this gas infrastructure, which depresses nodal power pricing
The promised freeze on residential CFE tariffs and limited opportunity for increased direct subsidy support from the government will strain its revenue
Potential cost gains for CFE afforded by increased gas availability are undercut by plan to maintain costly operational assets and abandonment of auctions
Basic CFE energy service tariffs for large C&I offtakers averaged on an annual basis between 58 USD/MWh and 66 USD/MWh in 2018
Monthly regional CFE commercial tariffs for commercial consumers (GDMTH) ranged from 58.83 USD/MWh and 77.62 USD/MWh
Industrial tariffs (DIST and DIT) varied between 44.40 USD/MWh to 72.83 USD/MWh monthly
Auxiliary CFE tariff charges push prices higher
Local marginal pricing (LMP) and CFE tariffs tend to be lower in northern states with prices increasing west to east
Wind power LCOE is still competitive in northeast states despite lower electricity pricing in the region
3.8GW or 64% of the cumulative operational wind power capacity in Mexico through May 2019 is predicated upon corporate and industrial offtake agreements PPAs arranged as early as 2009
C&I PPAs have been supported historically by the self-supply offtaker mechanism with three development incentives:
Accelerated depreciation
Flat, postage stamp-style transmission fee
Balancing energy bank
The self-supply mechanism sunsets in 2019 although developers expect that later commissioning will be possible if interconnect permits are held by year’s end
C&I PPA activity has been driven primarily by high CFE tariffs for large offtakers
Major offtakers with wind power PPAs in Mexico include Walmart, Cemex, Coca-Cola, AB InBev, Volkswagen, Bimbo and Arcelor
Wood Mackenzie expects auctions to return to support build in the second half of the outlook .
Cumulative pre-qualified generation in the 4th round came in at 5.9 TWh of purchases which was on par with the first and third auction rounds (5.4 and 5.5 TWh, respectively). The total number of wind and solar contracts that would
have resulted from generation, CEL and capacity carveouts, resulted between 2.3 and 2.7 GW, with solar likely to win a large share of the total. In the above table, 14 of the 26 unique pre-qualified developers either specialize in PV
or explicitly denoted the bid was solar. Only 3 of 26 specifically categorized as wind, and 9 remained ambiguous, however of that ambiguous group, Enel, EDF and Iberdrola all own large-scale PV plants in Mexico.
It is clear that the cancelation had the largest impact on the future PV pipeline beyond 2021. Solar has been outcompeting wind on both system cost and access to existing transmission in areas of high resource. Currently, utility PV averages sub-$0.90/W all-in costs compared to a $1.10/W for wind. By 2022, PV will decrease capex to $0.75/W while increasing capacity factors from 28-32% range to well over 40% by boosting tracker and inverter efficiency while introducing bi-facial modules.
Upside of C&I market opportunity is limited by strong competition from low cost PV sites throughout Mexico
The C&I market is more favourable to wind power developers than auctions and provides greater upside to sustained development
Many of the most attractive PPA counterparties are already engaged in existing long-term wind power offtake agreements
Identifying potential bankable offtakers limits upside of the bilateral PPA market although bundling clients and contract structure innovations will drive increased volumes
RFPs and auctions hosted by power marketers and IPPs could be a solution
Wood Mackenzie expects a higher percentage of C&I clients to opt for PV due to its cost advantage and higher daytime production
The outlook is predicated on C&I PPAs supporting 4.5GW of wind power build
This would correspond to ~16.1TWh of annual wind power production
This corresponds to 10.4% of the demand from these segments through 2028
11.9GW x 14.4GW = 2.5GW
11.9GW x 14.4GW = 2.5GW
Abandonment of the long-term auction mechanism yields CFE effectively incapable of procuring sufficient clean energy certificates (CELs) to cover its 35% clean generation obligation in 2024
Prior to the fourth round auction cancellation, CFE appeared to have not purchased sufficient CELs to cover interim targets starting in 2019
Wood Mackenzie believes that CFE may renege on paying fines once faced with looming penalties for non-compliance with interim targets
A hydroelectric-centric capacity overhaul strategy proposed by CFE to comply with the 2024 is not feasible in this timeframe
Prior to the current government’s decision to cancel critical transmission tenders and to suspend its long-term power auctions, Wood Mackenzie expected Mexico to comply with its 2024 target
CENACE has yet to launch its market for CELs despite the original date for the its creation having passed. CENACE has publicly affirmed its aspiration to open this market in 2019 although no firm timeline exists.
Continued development of wind power and PV projects via bilateral contracts and merchant offtake will create additional CELs but not enough to reach the 2024 target
The removal of Bartlett from CFE or forced intervention by either SENER or Lopez Obrador will be necessary to put Mexico on track for compliance