Alberto Estefan coverage in Infrastructure Investor: Plan Mexico seeks PPPs to power infra build-out

In Infrastructure Investor, Alberto Estefan, Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure at Actis, comments on Mexico’s progress on Plan Mexico, the government’s initiative to make the country the world’s tenth-largest economy by 2030.

Alberto explains why the plan’s reliance on public-private partnerships marks a meaningful shift from the previous administration, and why the mixed-financing or “mixtos” structure, underpinned by 25-year dollar-denominated, inflation-linked PPAs with state utility CFE, is drawing strong private sector interest.

Click here to read the full article online and read on below for a snippet of Alberto’s commentary.

Alberto Estefan, Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure at Actis, commented:

“The backdrop is one where there are very meaningful needs from the perspective of directing capital towards the infrastructure space, but there are constraints on the fiscal side that mean the government wants meaningful private participation. The headline is they want to mobilise more than $300 billion of public and mixed investment by 2030. They have earmarked eight sectors, and energy is the biggest one, with over [half] of the overall projects contemplated under the plan.

“This scheme has attracted quite a bit of interest from the private sector because through this long-term PPA you have visibility on the commercial viability of the project and it’s structured in a way that is bankable in a standard, non-recourse project finance structure. For us as an infrastructure investor, it is something that we look to find in different markets where we operate.”

Disclaimer

The statements contained herein by Alberto Estefan regarding the Mexican infrastructure market are as of June 2026 and represent the views of Actis or the source cited which is not research and should not be treated as research. The case studies are presented for informational purposes only and were selected to demonstrate the type of investments that Actis will seek to make. There can be no guarantee that transactions with similar characteristics will be available to Actis. Moreover, there is no assurance historical trends will continue. Historic market trends are not reliable indicators of actual future market behaviour or future performance of any particular investment which may differ materially and should not be relied upon as such.