First Steps in the Smart Grid Framework: An Optimal and Feasible Pathway Toward Power System Reform in Mexico

Riccardo Bracho, Carl Linvill, Richard Sedano, Ron Binz, Donna Brutkoski, Riccardo Bracho (NREL Technical Monitor)

Research output: NRELSubcontract Report

Abstract

With the vision to transform the power sector, Mexico included in the new laws and regulations deployment of smart grid technologies and provided various attributes to the Ministry of Energy and the Energy Regulatory Commission to enact public policies and regulation. The use of smart grid technologies can have a significant impact on the integration of variable renewable energy resources while maintaining reliability and stability of the system, significantly reducing technical and non-technical electricity losses in the grid, improving cyber security, and allowing consumers to make distributed generation and demand response decisions. This report describes for Mexico's Ministry of Energy (SENER) an overall approach (Optimal Feasible Pathway) for moving forward with smart grid policy development in Mexico to enable increasing electric generation from renewable energy in a way that optimizes system stability and reliability in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages26
StatePublished - 2018

Bibliographical note

Work performed by Regulatory Assistance Project, Montpelier Vermont; Public Policy Consulting, Denver, Colorado

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/SR-6A50-68464

Keywords

  • Mexico
  • power system planning
  • power system reform
  • SENER
  • smart grid
  • smart grid pathway

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