Faced with the imminent opening up of the trade in México in 2008, cultivation sugarcane (Sacchrum spp.) It has a strong competitive pressure from other producing countries thatare operating with cost and low prices. Hence the need to seek production alternatives thatcould improve the...

This paper describes and tries to quantify the effects of some factors that have affected costs of state owned electric utilities in Mexico (energy losses, fuel and labor). It is noted that the impact of the increases in fuel prices on the electric utilities' total cost in the last years has...