Smart Grid Demonstration Project

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1 Smart Grid Demonstration Project Barbara Tyran Director, Washington & State Relations ASERTTI Fall Conference October 2013

2 Electric Power Research Institute 350+ participants in more than 40 countries EPRI members generate more than 90% of the electricity in the United States International funding of more than 26% of EPRI s research, development and demonstrations Programs funded by more than 1,000 energy organizations 2

3 Transformation of the Power System A Highly Interconnected Power System that What Optimizes will be the Energy pace of Resources change? 3

4 Future Power System Transformation A Power System that is Highly Flexible, Resilient and Connected and Optimizes Energy Resources 4

5 EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Project Seven-year collaborative research effort to design, deploy, and evaluate how to: Integrate distributed energy resources into grid Summarize key accomplishments Share information and research results EPRI Approach Collaborative Demonstrations 5

6 EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Projects Integration of Distributed Energy Resources 23 Utilities, 15 Large Scale Demonstrations 6 Countries TEPCO Resident Researcher Hawaii Electric 6

7 Cost-Benefit Analysis Guiding Documents Methodological Approach (ID ) Jointly funded by DOE and EPRI Estimating Costs & Benefits of the Smart Grid: (ID ) 20 Year Estimate of Investment & Benefit of Smart grid CBA Guidebook Vol. 1, Measuring Impacts (ID ) & Rev 1 (ID ) Manual for practical application with step by step instruction Quantifying Impacts of Time-Base Rates, Enabling Technology & Other Treatments in Consumer Behavior Studies: (ID ) Jointly Produced with DOE & LBNL 7

8 EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration 4-Year Update EPRI Report Available for Download at 4-Year Update: 13 Case Studies American Electric Power Consolidated Edison Electricite de France ESB Networks Exelon (ComEd) FirstEnergy Kansas City Power & Light Public Service New Mexico Sacramento Municipal Utility District Southern Co References to All Deliverables 8

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10 EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration 5-Year Update Publication Date: August Year Update: 9 Case Studies Ameren American Electric Power FirstEnergy Hydro-Québec Public Service New Mexico Salt River Project Sacramento Municipal Utility District Southern Company References to all deliverables 10

11 A Case Study on Use of Storage for Simultaneous Voltage Smoothing and Peak Shifting 500kW PV and Advanced Carbon Battery 1 of 8 Containers Consisting of 160 Battery Cells Each Data Acquisition System Concept of Simultaneous Smoothing and Shifting Proven A 1-second data capture rate of PV output proved essential to use storage for smoothing functions. 11

12 A Case Study on Testing and Certification of Equipment for Volt/Var Control Automated Distribution Banks Medium Voltage Monitoring Stations There is a gap regarding automation of distribution capacitor banks where standard phone lines are used for communication. 12

13 A Case Study on Residential Summer Solutions Program ATC = automated thermostat control (direct load control by utility) A refrigerator magnet was provided for those who selected the TOU/CPP rate. Participants who opted for a TOU/CPP rate dropped 70% more load during peak events than did those on direct load control. 13

14 What are we Learning Perspective from the Demonstrations Successes Conservation Voltage Reduction / Volt-Var Optimization Confirmation of Consumer Responses to Variable Pricing & Events Innovation Use of Deployed Technology High amounts of DER can be accommodated on individual feeders Challenges Consumer Adoption of Technology & Product Availability Energy Storage Business Case Standards Adoption Slow, but Vendors are Paying Attention Virtual Power Plant Not managing significant resources (yet) Multiple types of resources not seamlessly coordinated/managed 14

15 Enabling Robust Markets with Standards Open ADR Applies to All Types of Resources 15

16 Emerging Challenges: How to turn Data into Opportunity & Value Availability of Data is Increasing How can we Leverage our Assets? Demonstrate & Assess Value Prioritize New Investments & Efforts Educate our Staff & Industry Support formation of Data Analytics Groups EPRI Approach Collaborative Demonstrations Transmission Demo & Distribution Demo on Big Data 16

17 Emerging Challenges: Why? Availability of Data is Increasing Example: From 1 Meter Read/mo to Hourly (720/mo) =71,900% increase Data Sources Not Fully Utilized Data from Disparate Sources Not Integrated Combining Data into Information & Beneficial Applications? What Information is Actionable? (vs. just interesting) Management of the Grid = Management of Data 17

18 The Next Industrial Revolution Data Centers Energy Use on Pace to Double Every 5 Years Flat Load Profile of Data Centers Data Center Server Room By 2030 Could Reach 20% of Total US Electricity Use 18

19 What will 2020 Data Center Energy Usage Look Like? is predicting: Cloud Computing will replace many of the older, smaller, less efficient Data Centers, but once done, they will grow at the same doubling every 5 year rate..if not faster! Competition between the BIG players in Data Centers (Amazon, Apple, ebay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc) will increase the size, number and power of their data centers Their own Data Center energy usage will double in less than 5 years 19

20 Who could have predicted twitter.more growth! #tweets 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet. 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent /day in Feb million. The average number of Tweets people sent/ day in Feb million Tweets during the 2013 Super Bowl. #accounts 572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, ,000. Average number of new accounts/ day/last month. 182%. Increase in number of mobile users/ past year What new future applications will increase data center loading?? 20

21 Understanding Electric Utility Customers Main Focus: Customer Behavior and Behavioral Programs Resolve uncertainty regarding behavioral programs impacts Consider internal implications for utility Wholesale-retail linkages Seek out new approaches for energy efficiency from customer behavior 21

22 Distribution & Transmission Demonstrations on Big Data Data Management & Analytics to Support Operations, Planning and Asset Management 22

23 Together Shaping the Future of Electricity 23