Life cycle cost applied to grid code compliance in load centers in Mexico

With the currently grid code applied to load centers in Mexico, an special attention is taking care on power quality solutions, mainly for power factor correction, reduction of total harmonic distortion of demand and current imbalance. It is desire that all the technical solutions for these power quality problems includes life cycle cost analysis in order to obtain the best economical solution. In this paper an analysis is presented, showing a technical solution for harmonic distortions, power factor and impacts in the reliability of equipment, complemented with the analysis of life cycle costs of an asset, thus obtaining criteria to select the better system that maximizes the profitability of a process in a plant under a cost-risk-benefit approach.