At the 85th Anniversary of the Mexican Section of the IEEE it organized the 20th Power and Industrial Applications and Industrial Exhibition Summer Meeting - RVP-AI/2007 from 8 to 14 July 2007 in Acapulco, Mexico. The meeting was held at the Acapulco Convention Center and was attended by electric power system professionals from Mexico, North America and many other countries. The RVP-AI is considered the most important forum in the Mexican electricity sector for discussion of a wide variety of topics related to generation, transmission, distribution, protection, automation and control.

Acapulco de Juarez is a city and a major sea port on the Pacific coast of Mexico, about 300 km southwest from Mexico City. The first inhabitants of the area were the Nahuas, a tribe of people that preceded the Aztecs. In 1521 the Spaniard Francisco Chico arrived and named it Santa Lucía. The city became a key trading port between Asia and America. Acapulco became a popular tourist destination for Europeans after 1920 and a vacation destination for the rich and famous of Hollywood and across the world in the 1950s.

The venue of the conference and exhibition - the Acapulco Cultular and Convention Center - was built after 1972 as a complex of five buildings, designed with the goal to provide excellent conditions for different kinds of events.

The program of the conference included technical sessions, tutorials, panel sessions, lectures and master lectures. Mexican and international authors presented more than 250 papers selected by the conference technical committee. A significant number of papers covered different protection, automation and control issues, including generator and distribution protection, synchrophasor applications, breaker failure  and adaptive protection. IEC 61850 and its applications was subject of papers, as well as one of the conference tutorials.

The attendees of the conference also had the opportunity to discuss the latest technology presented by industry leading manufacturers both inside the exhibition hall, but also in an outside area.