From Querétaro to the Gulf: Building the Energy Layer of Mexico's Industrial Future

Where the next industrial century is being wired

Mexico's industrial heartland is being rebuilt around a simple fact: every new factory, logistics park and highway corridor needs more energy than the grid was designed to deliver. Kauil Energy exists to close that gap, one site at a time.

We are headquartered in El Marqués, Querétaro, at the centre of the Bajío manufacturing corridor, and we now operate in five Mexican states. Our work spans four connected businesses: EV fast charging, solar, batteries, and industrial IoT software.

I came to Mexico by way of Denmark, Norway and the United States. Scandinavia taught me that the energy transition is an infrastructure business before it is a technology story. Mexico taught me that the companies who win are the ones who can actually get equipment certified, imported, connected and running.

Fast charging where traffic already flows

Our charging strategy is deliberately physical: secure the right real estate, build to utility-grade standards, and own the operating data. Plaza Galia shows how it works.

Plaza Galia is our urban proof point: a retail location where drivers charge while they shop. Beyond it, we currently have a combined pipeline of 1,140 kW of EV charging across Colombia and Mexico, and a 1 MW solar pipeline in Colombia.

Each site is structured as its own asset, with its own lease, financial model and debt profile. That makes every location individually bankable and gives partners a clean way to participate in specific projects rather than the whole company.

Owning the software layer

Hardware is becoming a commodity; the platform that runs it is not.

That is why we are building our own charging software stack rather than renting one.

• Chispa, our customer app, lets drivers find a charger, top up a prepaid wallet and start a session from their phone.
• Our own charge-point management system speaks OCPP 1.6 and 2.0.1, the open protocols used by chargers worldwide, so we are never locked into one hardware vendor.
• Card payments at the charger through unattended terminals, so drivers without the app can still pay.

Chispa is multi-tenant by design. The same platform can run Kauil's own sub-brands and be licensed to other charging operators under their own name. Every charger we connect, and every operator we license to, adds recurring software revenue on top of the energy we sell.

Industrial IoT proven at a major mining site

The same engineering muscle behind our charging platform powers an industrial monitoring system we deliver in collaboration with a Danish firm: Kauil builds and runs the software, while our Danish partner is in charge of the hardware. It is in daily use monitoring a solar thermal installation at one of Mexico's largest copper mining operations.

The system pulls live data straight from industrial PLCs over secure VPN connections, stores it, charts performance and delivers branded reports to plant managers automatically. For the client, it turns a solar thermal plant from a black box into a measurable, auditable asset.

We see this work as a template. Mines, factories and industrial parks across Latin America are adding solar and storage, and almost none of them can see what those assets are actually delivering. Monitoring is the first step toward optimising them, financing them and proving their returns.

Solar, batteries and a supply chain we control

Industrial customers rarely want just one thing. They want reliable power, lower bills and cleaner operations at the same time. Our solar and battery offerings let us answer all three with one relationship.

Behind that offering sits a supply chain we have built ourselves. We travelled to Xiamen and Shenzhen to meet charger and battery manufacturers directly. We import DC fast chargers from 80 to 480 kW, for both passenger cars and truck applications, from our manufacturing partner LEISN. We have worked through Mexico's NOM certification and customs process end to end, backed by a strong logistics relationship with DSV.

For a market entrant, certification, customs and local operations are the hard part. We have already done them.

Colombia: the model travels

Colombia is our second market, and we are entering it the way we built Mexico: site by site, with engineering done properly from day one. We are currently designing 480 kW charging hubs for Colombian sites, including a hotel project in Bogotá, engineered to the country's RETIE electrical standard with locally sourced components.

We are candid that Colombia is early. What matters is that the playbook is portable. A standard hub design, a standard software platform and a co-development structure that lets local landowners and partners participate can be replicated across Latin America with modest adaptation.

Why this conversation matters in Dubai

Few places understand energy as long-term infrastructure better than the Gulf. The UAE has shown how patient capital, clear vision and physical assets can reposition an economy around the next generation of energy. Mexico and Colombia are earlier on that same path, with fast-growing industrial demand and a grid that needs private investment to keep up.

Dubai's investment community is also looking further afield. Firms such as Kjøller, a privately held Dubai-based investment company that combines long-term capital with hands-on support to help ambitious startups and scaleups grow, reflect a growing Gulf appetite for backing ambitious companies beyond the region.

Kauil offers several ways to take part, depending on what fits a partner's strategy:

• Project-level participation in individual charging hubs, each with its own lease, model and cash flows.
• Platform growth, backing the software and operating company that connects every site and licenses to other operators.
• Co-development alongside manufacturers, where equipment partners, landowners and capital share in each new site.

What we bring is what capital usually cannot buy quickly: a team on the ground, certified supply chains, utility relationships and working software already running in the field.