Resumen

GRUNSTEIN DICKTER, Miriam. Against the wind: regulation, social crisis and institutional change in the Wind Corridor in the Isthmus. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.51, pp.485-517. ISSN 2448-6183.

This article analyzes the regulatory deficiencies that have caused and aggravated social conflict between two groups: the rural inhabitants and the electric developers in Oaxaca’s Istmo de Tehuantepec. In this sense, this article recommends the need to review the institutional framework of private electric projects in Mexico, in order to include a valuation of their social impact. To illustrate this point, the case of Gas Natural Fenosa’s, Bií Hioxo will be examined in order to demonstrate this institutional collision. Last, an analysis is made on how the 2013 energy reform could have helped solve such conflicts but failed to do so.

Palabras llave : electric self-sufficiency; public service; institutional change; community presence; regulatory barriers and Gas Natural Fenosa.