Regional Smart Grid Test Bed Project

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Regional Smart Grid Test Bed Project

• NEET Work Group 6 Update
• April 21, 2009

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Purpose of the BPA Outreach

• Begin creating a Regional Smart Grid
  Demonstration Partnership
• Utilities who can offer physical assets and
  monetary contribution.
• Other utilities interested in helping design the
  test bed.
• Begin with partnering utilities to search for
  technology partners and vendors.

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Statutory BackgroundThe Two Types of Project
Funded by the ARRA

• The ARRA amended and appropriated funding, in
  part, for two key Smart Grid sections of the
  Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
  (EISA).
• EISA Title 13, Section 1304(b) Smart Grid
  Regional Demonstration Initiative.
• financial support of 400M
• For several regional demonstrations in urban,
  suburban, tribal and rural area.
• Up to 50 cost share will be provided by DOE.

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Statutory BackgroundThe Two Types of Project
Funded by the ARRAContinued

• EISA Section 1306 Federal Matching Fund for Smart
  Grid Investment Costs.
• Establishes a Smart Grid Investment Matching
  Grant Program to provide 50 of qualifying Smart
  Grid Investment (EISA was amended under ARRA to
  increase the grant from 20 - 50)
• ARRA appropriated 4.5 Billion to fund Sec. 1306.
  
• 1306(b) States what is a qualifying investment.
• 1306(c) What qualifying investments does not
  include.
• 1306(d) Defines smart grid functions

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Appropriated Dollars
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Timeline for RFP Process
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RFP ProcessProcedureWhat BPA is expecting

• BPA expects a NOI to be published on or near the
  17th of April.
• The NOI will have a 20 day question and answer
  period
• Subsequent Solicitation period will be at least
  30 days.
• BPA has submitted two general proposals to DOE
  and had conversations related to those proposals.
• DOE stated they liked BPAs proposal on
• Data management
• Transactive Control
• Full vertical slice of the system
• BPA is targeting and would like to propose a 100
  Million proposal for a PNW Regional Demonstration
  Program to DOE.

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BPAs Commitment

• BPA has currently committed 10 million to the
  project, not including in-kind contributions from
  others.
• BPA has partnered with PNNL for technical design,
  implementation, planning and support.
• BPA has been working on a Smart Grid Business
  Case to be conducted in several phases.
• Takes into account the utility perspective

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BPAs Proposal

• Create a regional smart grid test bed
• BPA and utility participants
• Utility partners bringing specific feeders and
  other assets
• Several vertical slices of the system from
  generation to the end-user.
• Model overlay of transmission system
• Follow GridWise Architecture Council
  Interoperability Framework
• The project will be
• adaptable
• allow the inclusion of new technology during and
  afterwards
• a persistent installation of smart grid
  infrastructure

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Essential and Other Elements

• Essential assets
• Agricultural pump control
• Backup generation
• Commercial HVAC
• Industrial process control
• Interval revenue metering
• Residential PV
• Residential smart appliance
• Residential thermostat
• Residential water heater
• Small wind generation
• Substation distribution automation / feeder
  reconfiguration
• Substation volt / VAr control

• Other invited assets
• Batteries, customer
• Battery, substation
• Capacitor bank Controls
• Customer behavioral
• Customer incentives
• Customer Transformers
• CVR systems
• Cyber security
• Diagnostics
• Electric vehicles, PHEVs
• Feeder automation software / control
• Feeder automation switches / sectionalizers
• Gateways
• Home energy management system
• Interoperability specification and testing
• Lighting switching / dimming controls
• Meters

• Other invited assets
• Network operations
• Oil temperature sensor / diagnostic system
• Phasor network
• PV systems
• Rate structure development
• Small commercial energy management system
• Solar dish / sterling
• Substation automation / SCADA
• User interface
• Voltage regulators
• Wide-area network
• Wind-large central
• Wind-small distributed
• Surprises

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Hierarchical Communication and Control Pathway

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BPAs ProposalKey Focus of the Project

• Automated demand response technologies
• Distributed generation
• Distribution automation / Automatic
  reconfiguration
• Interoperability
• Value for the utility, BPA and the region

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BPAs Role

• Help create a regional vision.
• Create a partnership interested in understanding
  the end-state of smart grid
• In partnership create
• the research and design plan with PNNL.
• a phased business case for smart grid.
• interface with technology vendors.
• Carry out an implementation of the test bed.
• Interface with DOE and Washington on funding
  opportunities.
• Understanding the effect of Smart Grid on BPA
  operations, utility operations and the region.

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Proposed Research Activities

• A responsive demand, supply, storage,
  transmission or distribution element.
• A means to monitor or otherwise account for or
  verify the behaviors or status of the responsive
  element and communicate the status or behavior
  upward into the hierarchical communication
  pathway.
• A means to receive at the responsive element
  simple communicated signals, the price-like
  signals that are to be communicated downward
  through the hierarchy to affect the behaviors of
  the responsive elements.

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Proposed Criteria for Partnership

• Share in 50 cost share requirement set by the
  ARRA and EISA and DOE.
• Offer one or several possible distribution
  feeders (sites) where the project can be
  implemented.
• Willingness to adopt the transactive control and
  hierarchical communication control pathway
  approach to smart grid infrastructure
  implementation.
• Willingness to abide by GridWise Architecture
  Council interoperability framework.
• Willingness to share all pertinent data generated
  as part of the project.
• Willingness to sign a MOU with BPA regarding
  partnership and implementation should the project
  be awarded a grant by DOE.
• Collaborate in the implementation and design
  details with BPA and PNNL.

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Next Steps

• BPA will release an RFI for utility interest in
  partnership.
• BPA will host a subsequent meeting at BPA to
  discuss with interested utilities possible
  partnerships and site selection and contingency
  site selection.

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Contacts

• For additional information contact
• Lee Hall 503-230-5189
• Jason R. Salmi Klotz 503-230-5327