A Report on the Implementation of Smart Grids in Mexico

For the past four years, Mexico has been implementing its constitutional energy reform and transforming its electric power industry. Changes in law, regulation, and market structure are bringing forth new market participants and producing new levels of clean power with new technologies and expanded customer choices.In making these power sector reforms, Mexico has understood and addressed the central importance of a modernized grid. The energy sector reform laws establish a Smart Grid Program, thus committing to making Mexico's power grid capable of meeting the country's lofty clean energy goals while improving efficiencies, maintaining system reliability, and increasing its security. This Report on the Implementation of Smart Grids in Mexico responds to and complies with the new law requirements, and it is written in service of the goal of Mexico having a Smart Grid - Redes Eléctricas Inteligentes - with all the benefits such an investment can bring. This report comprises eight main sections, and it represents a compilation of data and information from many sources that document Mexico's progress in implementing a Smart Grid. The content for each section was developed with the participation of knowledge experts in each topic area, who are acknowledged above. Readers may want to view the report as a reference guide on the eight main topic areas that are presented. Before discussing each section of the report below, we offer an overall assessment.