A Report on the Implementation of Smart Grids in Mexico

Technical Report · Wed Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1491446· OSTI ID:1491446

Binz, Ron ^[1]; Bracho, Riccardo ^[2]; Anderson, Art ^[2]; Coddington, Michael H. ^[2]; Hale, Elaine T. ^[2]; Ingram, Michael ^[2]; Martin, Maurice ^[2]; Mendoza Carrillo, Ismael ^[2]; Normark, Bo ^[3]; Olofsson, Magnus ^[4]; O'Neill, Barbara L ^[5]; Statwick, Patricia ^[5]; Speer, Bethany K ^[5]

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1. Public Policy Consulting, Denver, CO (United States)
2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
3. Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm (Sweden)
4. Energy Inst. of Sweden (Sweden)
5. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

As part of Mexico's implementation of its constitutional energy reform and the transformation of its electric power industry, Mexico is addressing the central importance of a modernized grid. The energy sector reform laws establish a Smart Grid Program to make Mexico's power grid capable of meeting the country's lofty clean energy goals while improving efficiencies, maintaining system reliability, and increasing its security. Implementing Smart Grids in Mexico required a compilation of data and information from many sources that document Mexico's progress in implementing a Smart Grid. In this report, various knowledge experts contribute with an assessment on the topics of the legislation that created the sectoral transformation now underway; the state of smart grid technology in Mexico's power sector and the efforts undertaken to date; a review of policy in the power sector describing the development of the Smart Grid Implementation Plan by the Ministry of Energy; a review of Mexico's priorities for smart grid deployment; the mapping of several smart grid measures to the specific smart grid drivers; substantial detail from smart grid experts from NREL and from Swedish smart grid research centers describing smart grid measures to assist Mexico's move to a cleaner, more-efficient grid; institutional policies that are recommended for smart grid growth; discussion of some of the barriers to smart grid deployment, including cybersecurity concerns and consumer receptivity.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1491446
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-7A40-72699
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
Mexico
smart grids
clean energy