The Electric Research Institute was created by Presidential Decree on behalf of the Mexican Government on the first of December, 1975, as a decentralized organization with its own legal identity and patrimony, whose assignment was scientific and technical in nature.

IIE is Mexico’s research center dedicated to the electric and oil industries. Its main objectives are to carry out innovation, technological research and development; to provide engineering and technical services, training, and the commercialization of the results of research and technological development in electrical generation, transmission and distribution processes and improvement oil processes.

The Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas is backed up by an organizational structure that enables it to perform and accomplish its purpose, which is to contribute to technological innovation, scientific research and development of the energy sector. The IIE strives to strengthen technological institutions and channel their efforts in the fields of processes, equipment and systems in order to increase competitiveness in the electric power and energy sectors, not just in Mexico but abroad as well.