Demand Response

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Demand Response Smart Grid

• Nathan Ota
• Consumer Solutions
• Trilliant Networks
• nathan.ota_at_trilliantinc.com
• July 14, 2009

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Introduction To Trilliant
Company Overview
Trilliants Smart Grid Offering

• Fully integrated Smart Grid networks for
  utilities
• 200 employees
• Headquarters in Redwood City, CA with offices in
  USA, Canada, and Europe
• 20 year history serving utilities in North
  America starting as Nertec in Quebec, Canada
• Acquired SkyPilot in May 2009

• Unified Networking secure multi-tier network
• Broadband Capacity for current and future
  applications
• Complete Coverage network tiers, geographies,
  and devices
• Open Standards standard hardware and IP
  networking

Customer Base

• 1 million endpoints installed
• 200 utility customers in the Americas and Europe

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Selected Deployments

• Largest NAN in North America today
• 900k endpoints installed
• 485k endpoints under network and communicating
• One of first integrated NAN / HAN projects in
  North America
• One of first NAN projects in Europe using RF mesh
• One of first fully functional Smart Grid networks
  in North America
• First integrated NAN / WAN multi-tier network
• One of first AMI projects delivering TOU billing
  to all customers
• 50k WAN units installed in 60 countries
• 48k Cellular CI meters installed across the
  Americas

Operating deployments across network tiers
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Regulatory Landscape in Ontario, Canada

• Smart meter installations in all homes, small
  businesses by 2010.
• TOU default anticipated 2010, TOU available since
  2005.
• PeakSaver DLC programs, CPP pilots.

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Hydro One Smart Grid Overview
Source Hydro One
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Hydro One Smart Grid Vision
Source Hydro One
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DSM over Smart Grid

• Demand Response DLC

• Demand Response EE

Source Hydro One
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Smart Grid DSM Rollout

• Separate anticipated RFP from AMI.
• Operation over installed Trilliant network.
• Two-phased deployment approach.
• Smart Zone
• Full provincial rollout, business case dependent
• SLA compatibility.
• Vendor enablement.

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Trilliants Multi-Tier Grid Network
UnityTM Head End Enterprise Software
Grid
Metering
DSM
Network Operations / Management
SecureMeshTM Wide-Area Network (WAN)
SecureMesh Neighborhood-Area Network (NAN)
Home-Area Network (HAN)
A multi-tier architecture for secure private
networking
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Trilliants migration path for HAN
Align Bridge Evolve
future HAN
?
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Take-away points

• DR EE DLC over Smart Grid.
• Phased rollout of Smart Grid DSM.
• Smart grid evolution.
• Multi-tier network
• Non-meter HAN gateway

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Thank You!Questions?

• Nathan Ota
• Consumer Solutions
• Trilliant Networks
• nathan.ota_at_trilliantinc.com
• July 14, 2009