The lights return to the Satellite Towers after payment of 4.7 million pesos in arrears

The Torres de Satélite remained dark for seven years. Their nighttime lighting returned after the Naucalpan municipal government regularized the electricity service and paid what it owed to Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission, or CFE.

Documents obtained through transparency requests show that the municipality paid 4,757,556 pesos during 2025 for debt and electricity consumption generated that year. One payment totaled 1,690,962 pesos, including a 1,589,392-peso adjustment for 504,828 kilowatt-hours and 101,570 pesos in outstanding regular billing.

The municipality later paid another 3,066,594 pesos, settling the debt and electricity bills for the 2025 period. The records describe a regularization process between the city government and CFE after years without service and repeated efforts to establish the unpaid consumption.

The lighting was suspended in 2018. Members of the Cultural Foundation Torres de Satélite said at the time that the interruption followed a CFE debt of more than 2 million pesos. The amount grew over the years. In a July 15 media interview, Mayor Isaac Montoya Márquez said it had ultimately become “a debt of more than 4 million pesos.”

CFE documents identify the service under the account name “MPIO NAUCALPAN ALUMBR TORRES.” They also say the site’s electricity had not been measured, prompting the municipality and the utility to calculate the consumption that remained unpaid. The towers, created in 1957 by Mathias Goeritz and Luis Barragán, are a symbol of the metropolitan area.

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a debt of more than 4 million pesos