Doing Business 2020
Mexico
Getting Electricity - Monterrey
Standardized Connection
Name of utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE Distribución)
Price of electricity (US cents per kWh) 13.9
City Covered Monterrey
Indicator
Monterrey
Latin America &
Caribbean
OECD high
income
Best Regulatory
Performance
Procedures (number) 6 5.5 4.4 3 (28 Economies)
Time (days) 44 66.8 74.8 18 (3 Economies)
Cost (% of income per capita) 182.0 407.2 61.0 0.0 (3 Economies)
Reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index (0-8) 7 4.4 7.4 8 (26 Economies)
Figure – Getting Electricity in Monterrey – Score
50.0 88.7 97.8 87.5
Procedures Time Cost Reliability of supply and transparency of
tariff index
Figure – Getting Electricity in Monterrey and comparator economies – Ranking and Score
DB 2020 Getting Electricity Score
0
100
85.7: Chile (Rank: 39)
82.2: United States (Rank: 64)
81.0: Monterrey
76.3: Colombia (Rank: 82)
72.8: Brazil (Rank: 98)
69.1: Mexico City
Note: The ranking of economies on the ease of getting electricity is determined by sorting their scores for getting electricity. These scores are the simple average of the
scores for all the component indicators except the price of electricity.
Figure – Getting Electricity in Monterrey – Procedure, Time and Cost
Time (days)
Cost (% of income per capita)
180
160
35 140
30 120
25 100
20 80
15 60
10 40
5 20
0
40
0
1
2
* 3
4
* 5
6
Procedures (number)
* This symbol is shown beside procedure numbers that take place simultaneously with the previous procedure.
Note: Online procedures account for 0.5 days in the total time calculation. For economies that have a different procedure list for men and women, the graph shows the
time for women. For more information on methodology, see the Doing Business website ( http://doingbusiness.org/en/methodology ). For details on the procedures
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