Our mission is to increase regional reliability of the electric grid and create a new corridor connecting Baja California Mexico’s a large energy load market with the Imperial County’s large generation sourced area.
Baja California Mexico’s electric grid is connected and synchronized to the rest of the Western U.S. electric grid and not currently connected to the rest of Mexico.
The Cal-Mex transmission line will be the first synchronous circuit connecting the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) and National Center for the Control of Energy (CENACE) in Mexico and the third between the state of California and Baja California Mexico.
Electricity trade between the United States and Mexico has existed since 1905, when privately owned utilities located in remote towns on both sides of the border helped meet one another's electricity demand with a few cross-border low voltage lines.
Over the years, both countries developed highly regulated and structured electricity sectors and several major, and minor cross-border transmission lines were constructed. However, for a variety of technical and market reasons, United States – Mexico electricity trade has remained small. Existing electrical interconnections between Mexico and the United States are relatively limited in capacity and operationally constrained by asynchronous transmission systems, except in the Southern California-Baja California region.