The Distributed Electricity Generation in Mexico and in Argentina: New Perspectives Associated with the Institutional Reforms in the Electricity Sector
Article from: OGEL 3 (2004), in Energy, Institutional Reforms and Development in Latin America
Abstract
Historically, the electricity systems were formed from the aggregation of small scale local networks to profit from an abundant electrical demand and economies of scale in production that allow the great interconnected systems. Currently this logic seems to show certain limits from a visible exhaustion of benefits related to the size of production units, increasing difficulties in developing new electricity transmission infrastructure and a fast progression in the performance of modular production technologies under the effects of the electricity sector liberalisation and the emission ...