ELECTRICAL RESEARCH
INSTITUTE (IIE)
Renewable Energy
Calle Reforma 113, col. Palmira, 62490, Cuernavaca, Mor. MEXICO
Tel: +52 777 3623811
Contact: Jorge M. Huacuz
Email:
• Roles:
• Develop, organize and implement a minimum of one
workshop on national deployment and dissemination
strategies for wind and/or solar energy technology.
• Provide support services to Latin American and Caribbean
countries on the evaluation of renewable energy resource
potentials, strategies for the deployment and dissemination of
wind and solar energy technologies and efficiency
improvements of national and regional power systems
• Lead the content management of CoP PV Systems in the
Finanzas Carbono website.
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IIE
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Geothermal &
new sources of
energy
Technical
support to
IIE as Technical Support of
The Mexican Energy Sector
Who are we?
The IIE was created as a decentralized organization
of the Mexican Government in 1975
Mission:
To promote and support innovation trough value-adding applied
research and development to increase the competitiveness of
Mexico´s electric industry.
Provide support:
in electrical generation, transmission and distribution processes
and improvement oil processes.
Renewable Energy at the IIE
Prime Objective:
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To promote and support the implementation of sustainable
technologies for electricity generation through non conventional
energies
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Our department sees itself as main facilitator for the introduction of
Support for Central America and the
Caribbean in collaboration with UNEP
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Resource Assessment
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PV Systems
Resource Assessment
Develop timely and reliable information on renewable
energy resources to support regional energy planning
and implementation.
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Design, installation, operation and maintenance of networks for monitoring
wind, solar, biogas, rivers flow, waves, tides and ocean currents.
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Conditioning for remote monitoring stations using satellite technology,
telephone or radio
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Estimation of the potential of renewable energy resources, from
measurements or modeling
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Technical and economic analysis of site-specific projects.
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Development of mapping and renewable energy resources geoportals
publication.
Geographical Information System for Renewable Energy
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Official Solar and Wind Maps Resource Assessment presented
in CoP 16 (Cancún, México)
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Biomass, Minihydro.
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Rivers flow, Waves, Tides and Ocean Currents (in Progress)
Resource Assessment
National Laboratory for Assessment of Renewable Energy Resources
in Mexico (LERM)
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Identification of potential areas for the implementation of renewable energy
projects.
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Training.
PV Systems
Capabilities:
Grid Connected Applications
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Formulation and implementation of
self-supply projects for any specific
application.
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Basic and detailed engineering of
systems.
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Characterization of PV modules and
power conditioners.
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Study of technical and economic
feasibility.
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Analysis of electricity demand and
power quality for this type of facility.
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Instrumentation systems
characterization, evaluation and
monitoring.
Support for project evaluation.
Off Grid Projects
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Support in planning and monitoring
of rural electrification programs.
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Characterization and evaluation of
systems for rural electrification.
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Support in the process of handover
of projects and programs.
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Quality Assurance.
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Monitoring and evaluation of
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Mexican Center for Innovation in Solar Energy (In Progress)
PV Systems
Project PV Systems Grid Connected GEF – UNDP 2011
Objectives:
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Support activities for massive renewable energy Implementation
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Peaks load reduction with PV systems. Evaluate potential for grid-connected
PV systems to reduce seasonal (summer) peaks
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Regulations in PV rural electrification programs
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Regulations in PV grid connected
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Development of PV-Wind Hybrids
Prospecting and wind resource assessment.
Generation of preliminary indicators.
Project formulation.
Technical and economic feasibility studies.
Basic engineering and detailed design.
Advice regarding permitting process and project development executives.
Monitoring and evaluation of operational performance.
Advising on issues of power curve guarantee and investigation of the cause of recurring problems.
Training, management and project development of bilateral or multilateral cooperation.
IIE performs the activities required in the project development stage. In this
sense its capabilities are:
It was built with financial support from the GEF trough UNDP.
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Action Plan for Removing Barriers to the Implementation of Wind Power in
México
Regional Center for Wind Technology
CERTE
Projects in progress:
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Wind turbine development 1.2 MW
Calle Reforma 113, col. Palmira, 62490,
Cuernavaca, Mor. MEXICO
Tel: +52 777 3623811
Contact: Jorge M. Huacuz
