Transcript Slide 1

Energy Climate Workshop
November 3, 2008
Washington DC
October 17, 2008
Building a Smart Grid: A National Priority
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Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission
Our mission is to
make the Smart Grid a
reality by aligning the
interests of electric
utilities, consumers
and the environment.
Vision
Our vision is to
integrate every home
and every business
into the Smart Grid.
Values
GridPoint wants to turn
distributed resources
into the equivalent of
central-station
generation.
How Do We Do It?
GridPoint offers electric utilities a practical path to the Smart Grid by providing an
extensible technology platform and turnkey implementation
The GridWise Alliance
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Defining the Smart Grid
Building the Smart Grid
21st Century Smart Grid
Advanced
Demand
Management
Distribution
Automation
Self-Healing Grid
Grid-Interactive
Vehicles
Home & Building
Automation
Ancillary Services
Time Differentiated
Rates
Customer Portals
REC Markets
AMI
Demand Response
Today
Load Curtailment
CAPACITY
Outage
Management
Energy
Management
Systems
POWER QUALITY
& RELIABILITY
LOAD EFFICIENCY
AMR
OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY
FOUNDATION / INFRASTRUCTURE
Renewables
Integration
CLEAN
TECHNOLOGY
VISIBILITY
CONTROL
Supply & Demand
Self-Optimization
Capacity Challenges
SYSTEM CAPACITY
1,067,019 MW
15 %
RERSERVE
MARGIN
1,277,072
MW
AVERAGE
SYSTEM
CAPACITY
602,585 MW
Capacity Challenges
(cont’d)
HOURS
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AASmart
is when…
grid isGrid
smart
when…
… your teenage daughter, who snuck out last night
with the PHEV, plugged it in to recharge this morning
and pressed “override” on your “smart charger” –
paying $1.00 per kWh for daytime electricity.
…luckily, your rooftop PV is providing most of the
energy to recharge, and the extra battery in your
garage is working overtime to provide regulation
services to the utility at a premium rate…resulting in
an overall net zero cost to you.
...the grid provides value to the local utility
…the grid provides value to the consumer
…the grid provides value to the local economy
…the grid provides value to the environment
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The Grand Challenges…
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Transfer all traditional capacity reserve
requirements to the demand side
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Increase overall asset utilization by at least 10%
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Ensure that all critical loads are served 100% of the
time
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Integrate clean energy technologies to reduce CO2
intensity by at least 30%
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Proactively mine all utility and consumer efficiency
improvements
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Accommodate a penetration of more than 30%
PHEVs
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GridPoint SmartGrid Platform
TM
AMI
Customer Portal
Two-Way
Network
Billings &
CRM Systems
INTERNET
Operations &
Control
Center
Operations Center
Modular, Extensible, Upgradeable
Utility Portal
Load Measurement
& Control
Energy Storage
Integration
Renewables
Integration
PHEV
Integration
Other Distributed
Technologies
ELECTRIC
UTILTY
GridPoint Customer Portal
Web-based consumer
portal provides online
energy management
services
»
Provides detailed
consumption and
conservation data
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Personal energy profile
automatically optimizes
energy consumption
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Online services
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Energy savings data
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Detailed production and
consumption data
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Utility rate schedules
»
Environmental benefits
»
Password protected
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GridPoint Control Console
Provides utilities with direct
control over an intelligent
network of distributed energy
resources
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On-demand or scheduled
peak event management
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Predict available capacity of
stored energy, load control
and distributed generation
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Provides information before,
during and after a peak
management event
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Can be integrated with utility
operations environment
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Customizable to specific
utility needs
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Expanding the Platform
Utility Operator Control
Commercial & Industrial
Utility Power Assets
GridPoint Support Systems
Logistics & Configuration
Installation & Provisioning
Utility Systems
SmartGrid
Platform
Monitoring
& Support
Utility Ops
Center
Operations
& Control
Center
GridPoint
Operations Center
Residential Customers
Legacy Systems
Consumer Interfaces
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Billing
& CRM
Systems
GridPoint Platform Capabilities
Open Architecture
Deploy Flexibility
- Hosted or enterprise software
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Enterprise Software
- SOA, Web services, XML
- TCP/IP-based, 6Lopan,
ZigBee
- RF mesh, private networks,
4G
- Interoperability focus
- Segregation & protection of cust info
- Data & security standards
- NERC-CIP ready
- Industry leading data center security
- 128 bit encryption
- Executive dashboards & scorecards
- Trending & predictive analysis
- Increased visibility & control
Auto-Provisioning
3rd Party Integration
Server-Centric
Architecture
Extensibility
- Future-proof & upgradeable
- New requirements & devices
- Adaptable to market changes
- Remotely upgradeable software
-3rd party or GP device plug-andplay
- Horizontally & vertically
scalable
- Scales to millions of
endpoints
- TB’s of data
- 64 bit architecture
Security & Privacy
Business Intelligence
- Device Oriented Architecture
- Configuration & asset management
- Self-awareness
Scalability
- Platform, data, device integration
(e.g., tstats, HAN, MDM, CRM)
- Smart Grid Network Gateway
(SGNG)
- Data Transform Adapters
Customization
Modular Solutions
- Integrated server architecture
- Fully integrated, modular
solutions
- Enables Network Management
(e.g., home, C&I, vehicle
networks)
-Web interface white label
-Targeted content
-Custom data feeds & content
aggregation
-3rd party & legacy GUI interfaces
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2008 (1st half)
Data source: ERCOT
“…balancing-energy market prices in ERCOT's four market zones
have ranged from negative territory in the west, where windgenerated power is abundant, to the market cap of $2,250 per
MWh and even higher during times of transmission congestion.”
- Reuters, 5 June 2008
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Power Reliability
Boston Globe
dailymail.co.uk
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Power Quality
Visibility at the endpoint provides
distributed intelligence for monitoring
and correcting grid power quality.
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Energy Efficiency Services
… While on vacation you receive a message that your hot
water heater has been running full on since last night. Your
“smart energy manager” dispatches a field service
technician and discovers a broken water pipe. The utility
shuts off your water heater remotely and the technician on
site turns off the water, saving you several days of wasted
consumption and property damage.
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PHEV Smart Charging
GridPoint enables utilitymanaged smart charging of
PHEVs with measurement
and verification to reduce
stress on the grid during
peak periods and enable
differentiated pricing –
regardless of when the car is
plugged in
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Perspectives on the Smart Grid
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