Power development in Mexico

The mexico section of the AIEE at its District meeting held in San Antonio April 1946, presented a paper^∗ analyzing the estimated requirements to supply the increasing demand of power in Mexico up to the end of 1949. It was explained then that it was urgent to increase the installed generating capacity by 53 per cent within the next four years and that new generating plants with a total capacity of 400,000 kw were required. As the installed capacity in 1945 was 756,000 kw, a total capacity of 1,156,000 kw should be available by the end of 1950.