Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported Saturday that San Quintín electrification has reached 29% completion, with five of 17 planned projects finished between February and March 2026. The agency is investing nearly 43 million pesos ($2.4 million USD) under its “Plan of Energy Justice” to bring power to roughly 4,776 residents across the rural municipality in southern Baja California.
12 Projects Still Ahead Before June Deadline
The remaining 12 electrification projects are scheduled for completion between May and June 2026. San Quintín, a sprawling agricultural municipality about 200 miles south of Tijuana along the Transpeninsular Highway (Highway 1), has long struggled with spotty electrical service. Many of its outlying communities, home to farmworkers who harvest berries and produce for export, have operated without reliable grid connections for years.
The CFE effort is part of a much larger infrastructure push announced on March 10 by Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda. Her Comprehensive Care Plan for San Quintín totals 2.59 billion pesos ($144 million USD) and covers water supply, education, road repair, electrification, and land title regularization. Within that package, over 176 million pesos ($9.8 million USD) is earmarked for electrification alone.
State and Federal Agencies Coordinate on Grid Expansion
Separately, the state’s Secretaría de Infraestructura, Desarrollo Urbano y Reordenación Territorial (SIDURT), Baja California’s infrastructure and urban development ministry, announced in February an investment of more than 100 million pesos ($5.6 million USD) to boost electrical supply capacity in the region. That project focuses on upgrading grid infrastructure to support future demand, including a planned desalination plant.
The governor’s plan extends beyond San Quintín proper to include communities such as Camalú, Vicente Guerrero, El Rosario, Cataviña, Bahía de los Ángeles, and Isla de Cedros. Governor Ávila Olmeda described San Quintín as a place where agricultural prosperity and deep poverty exist side by side, noting that migrant farmworkers arrive seeking opportunity but often find inadequate housing and services.
San Quintín became Mexico’s seventh municipality in Baja California in 2023 after decades of advocacy by local residents who argued the region’s needs were ignored by the Ensenada municipal government, which previously administered the area. The electrification push is among the first large infrastructure programs targeting the new municipality directly.
CFE plans to complete all 17 electrification works before the end of June 2026, according to La Jornada Baja California.