IntelliGrid: Enabling The Power Delivery System of the Future

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IntelliGrid Enabling The Power Delivery System
of the Future

• Don Von Dollen
• EPRI IntelliGrid Program

9th International Symposium on Power-Line
Communications (ISPLC2005) Vancouver, BC April
6, 2005
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The Power Delivery System of the Future Must Have
Advanced Capabilities
To achieve benefits identified by stakeholders,
the intelligent grid must be

• Self-Healing and Adaptive to correct problems
  before they become emergencies
• Interactive with consumers and markets
• Optimized to make best use of resources and
  equipment
• Predictive rather than reactive, to prevent
  emergencies ahead rather than solve after
• Distributed assets and information across
  geographical and organizational boundaries
• Integrated to merge all critical information
• More Secure from threats from all hazards

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Merging Two Infrastructures
1.Power Infrastructure
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What is Impeding the Industry?

• Lack of interoperability
• Limited methods or tools for designing complex
  systems
• Incomplete, overlapping and conflicting standards
• Lack of a common vision
• Regulatory and financial uncertainty
• Perceived investment needed

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The IntelliGrid Architecture

• An open, standards-based architecture for
  integrating the data communications networks and
  intelligent equipment needed to support the Power
  Delivery System of the Future
• Provides utilities and others with the tools and
  processes for designing communications and
  automation systems
• Recommends technologies and standards to use

Available for Downloadand Public
Use www.epri-intelligrid.com
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Examples of Intelligrid Architecture
Recommendations
Develop and implement consistent systems
management and security policies
Apply IEC 61970 and 61968 for Enterprise Data
Sharing
RD Harmonize IEC 61850 and 61970 Standards
Apply ANSI C12 for Revenue Metering
Apply ASHRAE BACnet for Building Automation
Apply IEC 61850 for Real-Time Controls
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Intelligrid Architecture Business Drivers

• Capital Cost Savings
• Competitive Procurement of intelligent equipment
  through Standards and Open Systems
• Multi-vendor support and avoidance of single
  vendor lock-in
• Extensible and Scalable Industry-wide
• Life-Cycle Cost Savings
• More uniform Standards based systems
• Extensible for the Future
• More capable, easier to maintain
• Immune to single vendor limitations
• Security Policy Implementation

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Consumer Portal
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What are the Applications?
Current Applications (examples)
AMR (radio and low speed PLC)
Time of Use Rates
Special load control during peak periods
Direct Load Control (e.g. radio), controllable thermostats
Building energy management systems
DG (backup) Aggregation for Market Participation
Metering information and energy analysis via website
Outage detection and notification
Metering aggregation for multiple sites or facilities
Future Applications
Continuous metering information available to customer
RTP for customer market participation
Integration of customer-owned generation
Automatic load controls integrated with RTP
Remote power quality monitoring and services
Facility sub-metering and energy analysis
Remote equipment performance diagnostics
Theft control
Customer monitoring integration with FSM
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What Could a Portal Look Like? Some Options
Portal in a meter
Portal in a set-top box
Portal in a stand-alone device or PC
Portal in a local energy management system
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Lessons Learned from dozens of past attempts

• The technology exists.
• No breakthroughs are necessary
• Make it simple.
• Functions should not require customer
  intervention
• Standardize.
• Dont try to lock in customers to proprietary
  systems
• Achieve economies of scale and reduce costs
• Share the infrastructure.
• Use portal-like services from other industries
• Build an architecture.
• Integrate the portal with the whole energy system
• Dont create islands of automation
• Dont strand assets.
• Make it easy and inexpensive to upgrade
• The best applications may be yet to come
• Share the benefits.
• Distribute the societal benefits to everyone

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What Could a Portal Look Like?

• A consumer portal is an idea, not a particular
  device!
• IntelliGrid is developing a reference design
• A standard virtual appearance for a portal
• A clearly defined set of interfaces
• May be incorporated into a variety of devices
• May be distributed among several devices
• The physical device(s) may vary, but the virtual
  device must be standardized to ensure
• Interoperability between vendors
• Reduction in cost due to economies of scale
• Some vendors already provide portal-like devices,
  but they are generally not standard and not
  interoperable.

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IntelliGrid Consumer Portal Project

• Define requirements so that vendors can build
  components and systems that are interoperable
  (open systems).
• Information models, object models
• Define requirements so that systems will be
  expandable to meet needs of future service
  offerings.
• Engage stakeholders to create a consensus on
  these requirements definitions.
• Demonstrate the feasibility and performance of
  systems that meet these requirements.
• Move these requirements into the standards
  process to enhance the applications in the
  market.