At the 125th Anniversary of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, the Mexican Section of the IEEE organized the 22nd Power, Industrial Applications and Industrial Exhibition Summer Meeting - RVP-AI/2009 from 5 to 11 July 2009 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.

The program of the conference included technical sessions, tutorials, panel sessions, lectures and master lectures.

Mexican and international authors presented about 250 papers selected by the conference technical committee. A significant number of papers covered different protection, automation and control issues, including series-compensated line protection, differential protection, synchrophasor applications, protection coordination and fault location.

IEC 61850 and its application was discussed in several papers, as well as one of the conference tutorials

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