The Association of Innovative Women Entrepreneurs (AMEI) asked President Claudia Sheinbaum to give the green light to the co-investment to extract lithium in Sonora and Chihuahua, which will allow the installation of a plant for the manufacture of batteries in Mexico.
“I appear to formally request the installation of an inter-institutional working group and the legal recognition of the Mexican Lithium and Hydrogen Consortium, as a figure of the public-private trust, with supervision of the Mexican State,” said the business organization.
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The plan presented by Martha Lizzeth Cruz Garza and Martha Irais Melgarejo Landa, members of the AMEI, contemplates that the National Green Lithium Trust has 600 million pesos for the construction of a pilot plant to extract lithium in Sahuaripa, Sonora and Satevó Chihuahua.
Once the strategic material is available, a plant will be built to manufacture lithium batteries, which are used by electric vehicles in Mexico and the world, said Martha Lizzeth Cruz Garza, founder of the Mexican Lithium and Hydrogen Consortium.
The Mexican Lithium and Hydrogen Consortium would be in charge of creating the National Green Lithium Trust, while the State would be the guarantor and LitioMx would serve as a technical-administrative body.
Since 2020, the Mexican Lithium and Hydrogen Consortium said it has invested money and resources in various research, prospecting and technology development projects to extract lithium in Sonora and Chihuahua.
The University of Sonora, the IPN, the CINVESTAV, the ITH and the LNCAE are part of the work carried out by the Mexican Lithium and Hydrogen Consortium, which developed the NIRHI patent.
The NIRHI patent is Mexican technology with international registration to generate clean energy, desalinate water and process lithium with minimal resource consumption, said Martha Irais Melgarejo Landa, president of the AMEI.
According to the businesswoman, they have participated in the creation of industrial alliances for the national manufacturing of LiFePo batteries, being the only Mexican component used in electric vehicles.
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“These projects do not seek to contravene the nationalization of lithium, but rather to strengthen it through a supervised co-investment trust, where the State serves as guarantor and LitioMx as the technical-administrative body,” stated Martha Lizzeth Cruz Garza, AMEI commissioner.
“The mining towns of Sahuaripa, Sonora and Satevo Chihuahua, as well as mining concessionaires, land owners and investor ranches have paid for exploration, roads, scientific development, scientists, professionals, universities, inventors and national companies to develop an industry linked to lithium.”
The members of AMEI explained that they want to present the technical, legal and financial file of the National Green Lithium Trust to the Presidency of the Republic, as well as to the heads of the Secretariats of Energy, Economy, Government and Environment.
With formal recognition from the Mexican Lithium and Hydrogen Consortium, they considered that a technological and social co-investment vehicle aligned with the National Energy Transition Plan 2030 is being opened.
Another request is the signing of a collaboration agreement with LitioMx to develop a Green Lithium Pilot Plant, with mixed contributions between the federal government, public universities and private initiative, according to the documents.
And also, they said, they require an innovation guarantee credit granted by FIFOMI, as initial support for technological and infrastructure investment, with the possibility of co-financing the project between the State and national investors.
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“The purpose of this initiative is to establish a Mexican, sustainable and participatory model of lithium industrialization, which is the prelude to the Mexican lithium battery plant, where energy sovereignty is strengthened with the collaboration of the academic, scientific and private sectors, under state control and total transparency,” stated the Association of Innovative Entrepreneurial Women.
