Renewable Energy In Mexico

This book explores the perplexing question of how to increase sustainable energy technology use in the developing world, and specifically focuses on two megacities within Latin America. Renewable Energy Uptake in Urban Latin America examines the market and uptake of two sustainable energy technologies (solar water heaters and biogas to produce electricity) in two locations, Mexico City, Mexico and São Paulo, Brazil in the 2000s. Drawing from three systems-based analytical frameworks – including one developed by the author for the purpose of this study – the book examines the varying factors affecting the implementation of renewable energy technologies (RETs) in urban Latin America. These frameworks emphasize the importance of examining socio-political dimensions; rather than conventional explanations that focus on technical and economic aspects only. By doing so, the research improves explanations about renewable energy technology (RET) adoption in the global South. These findings are useful for scholars, policy makers and practitioners working on RET adoption; resulting in a book which helps to inform wider debates regarding innovation, decarbonization, sustainability transitions and energy system change. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, energy policy, development studies and science and technology studies.

Without energy, there is no well-functioning economy, besides facing social risks. This book provides a systemic approach to energy in Mexico and its relations to the USA arising from the energy reform of the former. It covers the transition from fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy, relying heavily on renewable sources and mitigating climate change risks. Several human knowledge disciplines and topics are covered in the book, including public policy, economics, transboundary issues, electricity and thermal energy, residual biomass use, distributed energy systems and its management, and decision-making tools. An analysis is considered regarding energy issues interaction in the Mexican-USA border, which differ in both countries from pricing and policy, and the work and research that has been developed for transboundary energy trade.

John R. Moroney and Flory Dieck-Assad cogently assess Mexico's goals of sustainability and the major policy changes that will be required to achieve them.

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.

The transformation of the electricity sector is highly complex, including integration of large shares of renewables, storage, forecasting and modelling, biofuels, and electricity markets. This book provides clarity on the interlinked processes of the transformation towards 100 percent renewable power.