Mexico’s state-owned utility Comisión Federal de la Electricidad (CFE) has announced that the lifetime of the 775 MW Unit 2 of the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant will be extended by 30 years, until April 2055. Laguna Verde’s Unit 1 lifetime was also extended in July 2020, receiving a new license allowing it to operate until 2050.
The 1.6 GW Laguna Verde power plant is the only nuclear power plant in Mexico. It is owned and operated by CFE on the country's Gulf of Mexico coast, it has been generating electricity since 1989, when unit 1 was commissioned. Unit 2 was commissioned in 1995. Both units are boiling water reactors supplied by General Electric.
In 2021, nuclear represented only 2% of Mexico’s installed capacity (with 1.6 GW) and 3% of its power generation with 12 TWh. In 2019, CFE announced that two new nuclear reactors totalling 1.4 GW were under consideration at Laguna Verde.