The Energy Conservation Code for Mexico is presented at the Ministry of Energy.

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Pictured (left-right): David Walls, ICC; Santiago Creuheras, SENER; Evangelina Hirata, CASEDI; Undersecretary Leonardo Beltrán, SENER; Richard Shackleton, UK Embassy; Julia Martinez, CTSEMBARQ; and Odón De Buen, CONUEE.

As the result of several years of work in cooperation with national and international institutions and organizations, the Energy Conservation Code for Mexico was formally introduced on March 8 at a ceremony headed by Leonardo Beltrán, Undersecretary of Planning and Sustainability of the Ministry of Energy of Mexico (SENER), and Odón de Buen, General Director of the National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy (CONUEE). The event took place at the Quality Training Institute of the SENER, and Undersecretary Beltrán said that the entering in effect of Energy Transition Law in December 2015 closes a cycle of the Energy Reform to facilitate the path towards a low carbon energy based on the pillars of energy efficiency and clean energy production. Undersecretary Beltrán expressed his gratitude to all those who participated in the development of the code, especially to the civil asociation Calidad y Sustentabilidad en la Edificación (CASEDI), presided by Evangelina Hirata, and the support of the British Embassy in Mexico. Richard Shackleton, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, presented a cooperation scheme that has been implemented to support the code. International Code Council Sustainability Programs Executive Director Dave Walls explained the function of the Code Council and the code development process. CONUEE's Director Odón de Buen informed that the result of developing and applying Mexican Official Standards that regulate energy efficiency on gas and electrical residential systems and equipment, Mexico has saved more than 600,000 million pesos of actual money in the last 22 years. Director de Buen added that CONUEE will be in charge of distributing the code throughout the country [and the eventual] application by local authorities to new construction within their jurisdictions. In the ceremony also participated Julia Martínez form CTS Embarq, and Arturo Echeverría, Vice President of CASEDI and general coordinador of the IECC México Project, whom described the work that took to develop this code and the national and international parties that participated in it, and that culminated with the presentation of the Energy Conservation Code for Mexico.