Transmission management, pricing and expansion planning in Mexico: current status and perspectives

The Mexican electricity systems is partially open for competition, private agents have the right to access transmission networks for their use, the management and expansion planning of the transmission systems is done in a traditional centralized fashion. This work will describe the current procedures and methodologies used for open access transmission pricing, management and expansion planning. The paper also describes the perspectives for such aspects if a more open to competition environment is set in place in the Mexican electricity system; in this regard the paper will describe the perspectives that could be taken into consideration for transmission cross-border congestion management, pricing and long-term planning in a more competitive and interconnected environment.