smart grid optimization - april 2012
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Smart Grid Optimization Starts Here! Echelon smart meters go one step further to provide power quality sensing capabilities that can better identify technical and non-technical line losses, detect theft and tampering at the meter, and provide localized outage information to help you better manage the distribution network allowing you to better protect your revenue, and maximize the life of your grid assets at the edge.TRANSCRIPT
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THE OPTIMIZED GRID
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Key Take Aways
What does the optimized grid look like?
How far away from the future are we?
How can you get there?
Importance of standards in grid optimization
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Smart Energy Starts With Echelon 35M+ meters, 300,000 buildings, 500 cities
500
Smart Cities
300,000
Smart Buildings
35M+ meters on
the Smart Grid
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A Global Utility Customer Base Over 35M Meters Deployed and Growing!
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What is Grid Optimization?
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Substation
Smart Solar
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Smart Buildings
Smart Metering
Smart Street Lighting
Grid optimization creates smart energy that reduces your expenses by: Improving lifetime of the assets Balancing loads to get the most efficiency from assets Having more preventive maintenance to avoid outages
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How Do you Get Smart Energy?
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Substation
Smart Solar
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Smart Buildings
Smart Metering
Smart Street Lighting
Visibility and knowledge at the edge: Transformer monitoring Phase balancing Near real-time grid health data from smart meters Reliable PLC that can predict failures
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Imagine a Grid that Detects Failures First
Fix the problem before the outage occurs
Reduce operating expenses in high labor markets
Your assets last longer
Leverage more renewables
Have happier customers
Improve safety
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HOW FAR AWAY FROM “THE FUTURE” ARE WE?
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How Far Away Are We? Smart Grid Optimization Solution
Smart Metering
Billing solutions
Basic PQ values being
collected
Basic rate structures
Little consumer participation
Today Future Tomorrow
Smart Metering Smart Metering + Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
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How Far Away Are We? Smart Grid Optimization Solution
Transformer Monitoring
Automation of LV controls
(first monitoring)
Usage of alarms in DMS
GIS integration
Basic Outage Management
integration (reconciliation)
Asset monitoring and
management
Reach to customers through
portals and IHD
More flexible rates
Smart Metering
Billing solutions
Basic PQ values being
collected
Basic rate structures
Little consumer participation
Today Future Tomorrow
Smart Metering Smart Metering + Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
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How Far Away Are We? Smart Grid Optimization Solution
Transformer Monitoring
Automation of LV controls
(first monitoring)
Usage of alarms in DMS
GIS integration
Basic Outage Management
integration (reconciliation)
Asset monitoring and
management
Reach to customers through
portals and IHD
More flexible rates
Smart Metering
Billing solutions
Basic PQ values being
collected
Basic rate structures
Little consumer participation
Proactive grid management
Asset protection and fault
identification before problem
occurs
Integration of load analysis,
DMS and distributed grid
management
Participation of consumers in
electricity market buying and
selling electricity generated
and/or stored at their premise
Today Future Tomorrow
Smart Metering Smart Metering + Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
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Getting There Leveraging the Assets You Already Have Today
Transformer
Transformer
Substation
Smart Solar
Transformer
Transformer
Smart Buildings
Smart Street Lighting
Smart Meters
Smart Meters
At the Smart Meter: Upgradeable firmware Capture power quality information,
near real-time at the transformer Rich set of energy and power quality
elements Provide data collection for billing and
power quality at separate intervals
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Getting There Leveraging the Assets You Already Have Today
Transformer
Transformer
Substation
Smart Solar
Transformer
Transformer
Smart Buildings
Smart Street Lighting
At the Transformer: Turn into smart transformers by
adding transformer monitoring Collect temperature, load and
peak load
Control Nodes
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Grid Optimization is Possible Today Leverage your smart metering infrastructure
Step 1: Smart Meters are just grid sensors at the edge
Step 2: With simple monitoring, gather vital health information at the
transformer, to see grid optimization benefits
Step 3: With meters or control nodes capable of digesting information,
get near real-time distributed intelligence for a proactive grid to predict
line failures before they occur.
Step 1 Step 3 Step 2
Smart Metering Smart Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
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Standards OSGP includes important grid optimization requirements
Smart meters as a grid sensor
Addresses not only billing, not power quality and all aspects of smart meters and other
grid sensing devices
Turning transformers in to “smart transformers”
Allow data to be requested (and/or digested) by a head-end or a data concentrator
based application
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OSGP Backed By Industry Leaders Optimizing the Grid and Making it a Future Proof Investment
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In Conclusion
You can get to grid optimization today:
1. Smart meters can be used as grid sensors
2. Transformers become “smart” with simple monitoring
Standards are essential
OSGP includes key grid optimization requirements – today!
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