Jalisco

Thesis

October 11, 2026 · 9 min

Twenty million: the North American regions the size of the Bajío-Occidente

The Bajío-Occidente is home to 22.1 million people. North America has only a handful of regions that size: greater Mexico City, the Texas Triangle, Southern California, New York, Florida and the Québec City–Windsor Corridor, plus Guatemala and Hispaniola. With the same number of people, the Texas Triangle produces six times more per person.

Regulation

October 8, 2026 · 7 min

Project support desks: what Jalisco can do

The federal government has opened its single windows for energy. None of them covers what the state and the municipalities decide. Jalisco has already solved that stretch for industrial parks; it now has to apply it to energy projects and, above all, to the grid.

Sustainable development

October 7, 2026 · 9 min

The Bajío states and the 2030 Agenda

Five states, five ways to put the SDGs into practice. Three charge per tonne of CO₂, at different prices. Two have a net-zero emissions target. Only one has an energy ministry. Water is the weak point of all five. And there is no regional table.

Infrastructure

September 30, 2026 · 7 min

Windmills, giants and the wind we don't use

From Hildegard of Bingen to Don Quixote, wind has always moved something. Mexico has close to 8 GW of onshore wind, only one farm of it in Jalisco, and not a single turbine at sea, where the resource is almost twenty times larger.

Environment

March 10, 2026 · 5 min

Four states, three models: how to prepare a project an environmental fund will actually finance

Environmental money exists in three of the four Bajío states, but each fund rewards a different applicant and project. A comparison, which fund for what, and seven steps to a fundable project.

Environment

January 27, 2026 · 5 min

FEPAJ: Jalisco's environmental fund and its bet on co-funding

Jalisco created its environmental fund 16 years after Guanajuato, with a different design: open to NGOs and companies, and built to pull in federal and international money.