mexico, support for the development and uptake of - Unido

Industry
Is a priority area in the MOU with Austria.
Especially important not well develop CDM area with a large potential, mainly for energy
saving and cogeneration. This sector has been partially explored in terms of energy efficiency.
The energy savings at the sector are mainly due to illumination and electric motors
improvement. At present the most promising activity is cogeneration 54 . There is a large
potential to improve cogeneration, 1,700 enterprises have a potential cogeneration capacity of
15,000 MW 55 . From the year 2000 to date, the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) has
extended 11 cogeneration permits, as well as 14 permits to power independent producers. See
Annex I-F.
Process technological advances are scarce, but with an adequate set of incentives could be able
to enlarge considerably its CDM participation. Some areas of possible interest to CDM
activities have been scarcely explored, like material efficiency improvements in the industrial
sector and the abatement of F-gases, especially SF 6 , and emissions from the paper industry.
Steel: Is a promising industrial branch for CDM activities. The sector is just emerging from a
long crisis. A 2001 CEC study 56 contains the results of a survey to 13 of the most relevant
steel corporations of the Country and signaled in them a reduction potential of 121,000 tons of
CO2 per year, if the best available technology is used.
CANACERO calculates that 24 percent of the modernization investments of the steel industry of
the Country, directly contributed to improved environmental protection, including GHG emission
reductions. But opportunities for further efficiency improvements remain, particularly in small and
medium-sized enterprises. According to the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, from
1987 to 1993 the iron and steel sector was the largest industrial source of CO 2 in Mexico,
accounting for about 20 percent of total industrial emissions. The carbon dioxide intensity (tons of
CO 2 emissions/metric ton of steel produced) of the sector decreased by 37 percent, from 0.67 tons
in 1988 to 0.43 in 1996. At the early 90’s the sector was privatized and conducted an intense
modernization.
Smelting industry: The main foundries produce 701,243 tons of metals per year, 51% devoted to
iron and 36% to aluminum. The production divides in 70% to the national market and the rest for
export. 88% of the metal goes to automobile production 57 .
The first inventory of industrial emissions of 1990 incorporated only those of the cement industry
(11,621 Gg). The 1998 inventory found an increase of 3.8% for the emissions of the cement
industry. The Second National Communication 58 covered mineral products, metal production and
chemical industry; the 1994 industrial emissions were 37.1 and 44.3 Tg at 1998, an increase of
19.5%.
54 Conditions for the development of Cogeneration and Self-supply in Mexico, Transición Energética, No 65,
June 2005.
55 "Seminario de generación distribuida mediante autoabastecimiento y cogeneración", Universidad Paccioli,
CONAE. See also, “Transición Energética”, April 2004.
56 Mexico and Emerging Carbon Markets, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), 2001.
57
Mexican Center for Cleaner Production (CMPL), www.cmpl.ipn.mx
58 Mexico, Second Communication to the UNFCCC, SEMARNAT, July 2001.
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