TY - BOOK AU - Nigris, Michele De AU - Coviello, Manlio TI - Smart grids in Latin America and the Caribbean U1 - 333.793 PY - 2012/// CY - Santiago de Chile PB - CEPAL KW - Energía Eléctrica KW - Redes Eléctricas KW - América Latina N1 - 05524; The study aims to unveiling the potential of smart grids technology deployment in the Latin America and the Caribbean. Founding on a general discussion of the smart grids functionalities and on the description of the progressive evolution of an electricity system from the present state towards the dull deployment of smart grids concept, the study puts the concept into the LAC context through the preliminary analysis of the present situation in six representative countries ER -