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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: Mexico is moving on a path with ambitious and growing goals of clean energy generation. To meet them, it has begun restructuring its power sector to make it more competitive, efficient, and responsive to consumers. Each aspect of the country's National Electric System (Sistema Eléctrico Nacional or SEN in Spanish)-from generation to the customer's premises-will be touched by the grid modernization called Smart Grid, and each aspect can benefit from smart grid investment. Careful planning and selection of smart grid measures will prove to be a cost-effective strategy that will ensure Mexico's success in its energy transformation. And, international experience shows that a smarter electric grid will bring many benefits to Mexico and will aid the country in achieving its lofty goals on a reasonable timeframe and at a reasonable cost. Section 1 of the report sets the stage by reviewing the legislation that created the sectoral transformation now underway. Section 2 reviews the state of technology in Mexico's power sector and the efforts undertaken to date with grid modernization by the country's biggest power sector players: the state-owned electricity utility, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), and the independent system operator, Centro Nacional de Control de Energía (CENACE). In later sections, these efforts are put into the context of some of the best international practices. Section 3 reviews the state of policy in the power sector and describes the development of the Smart Grid Implementation Plan by the Ministry of Energy, Secretaría de Energía (SENER). As part of th...

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This report begins with an overview of the status of the power sector in Mexico's Yucatán peninsula, including key challenges, followed by policy and program solutions that pave the way for a cleaner, more sustainable power sector in the Yucatan. This work is intended to provide information to the states of the Yucatán peninsula for prioritization and future technical assistance from the 21 st Century Power Partnership (21CPP) program in Mexico. The collaboration could include data gathering, capacity building, modeling and analysis, and program and policy setting to help the states and the region overall best utilize their resources to meet electricity needs, all while implementing energy efficiency measures for a more sustainable, clean, affordable, and reliable system.