Emissions from the Mexican power grid to inform decarbonization pathways - Livestream

The EARNEST Consortium, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is dedicated to identifying and advancing solutions for the future of the U.S. electricity system. As part of its public engagement efforts, EARNEST is hosting its first webinar series focused on “U.S. Grid Reliability and Resilience.” This upcoming session will discuss climate pollutant emissions from the Mexican power grid to enable analysis of future interconnection projects between Mexico and the United States, and their potential to foster decarbonization strategies.

The need to address decarbonization scenarios in power grids has motivated utilities to develop low-carbon pathways without compromising reliability and power delivery to end users. However, to mitigate carbon emissions in power grids, large amounts of renewable energy need to be integrated considering not only uncertainty in investment and political certainty but also transmission capacity to avoid energy curtailments of photovoltaic and wind power plants. This involves the development of prediction models to address low carbon emissions from power grids based on the dispatch as accounted in the electricity markets (i.e., a top-down approach). In this context, an analysis of the Mexican power grid is addressed based on monthly reports provided (hourly energy dispatched) by the National Center for Energy Control (known in Spanish as CENACE) to define the baseline emissions from the Mexican grid. This will enable an analysis of the future perspective in terms of new generation projects and the increasing demand for power in cross-border regions between Mexico and the US. In addition, reduced equivalent grid models are essential to represent the most essential zones of generation, power demand, and transmission lines of the Mexican power grid, which will help to explore new interconnection scenarios to improve reliability and resilience.

Speakers: Alberto Mendoza and Daniel Guillen, both from the Tecnologico de Monterrey

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