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Smart communications for the Smart Grid

•Peter JohnsonJune 2010•Peter JohnsonJune 2010


Today utilities are facing a storm of issues…

Satisfy Customers

quality powerInnovat

e

renewable energy sources

Gain Market Share

New Technologies

Deploy secure networks

of distributed generation

Increase the Bottom Line

Automation…

Cope with Regulatory Rules

Retain Talent with aging workforce

in fast growing energy consumption and demand context

reduce carbon emissions

to manage uninterrupted, constant flow of

transition to

Execute faster than the others

Meet the challenge

Be GreenEfficiency

SecurityAsset Return


Diverse business goalsCommon drive that will transform utilities

High Power Quality with RES

…driven by different requirements of “the smart grid”

US

Japan

Australia

ChinaEurope

Secure electricity suppliesBoost energy conservation

Renewables integration

Operational EfficiencyAsset Optimization

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Inst

anta

neous

dem

and (kW

)

Time of day

Shave off seasonal peak

Reduce peak-hourPromote micro-generation

Secure electricity suppliesSecure electricity supplies

Distributed GenerationAsset Optimization

BrazilAfrica

Canada


Dividing up the smart grid into manageable pieces

Power Delivery Non-stop energy delivery, despite…

• Rising seasonal demand

• Advent of electric vehicles

• Aging infrastructure

Green Energy Pressure on CO2 footprint:

• Mass smaller scale renewables

• Management of energy losses

Power Quality A legal requirements, despite…

• Mass small scale renewables

• Increasingly “noisy” loads

Customer intimacy Creating value for customers

Operational efficiency Better cost control, requiring…

• Improved operational processes

• Better asset utilisation


Smart Grid is IT and communications intensive

Distributed generation, renewables

Smart metersDemand

response Home area network

Secure, highly reliable, scalable

PHEVs

Distribution managementProcurement and Market Ops

T&D operations Executive dashboards

Customer services

CRM/GenesysMDMSAMI Head-end

Business processes and data exchange

DWMSOMSGIS

T&D planning and engineering

Asset mgmtCMMSSystems planning

SCADA DSM

EMS DMS

Bidding and scheduling Trading and contracts

Planning & forecasting Settlements

Telecommunications infrastructure

Advanced metering

infrastructure

Distribution automation

Substation automationTransmissi

on operations

Plant operations

Energy infrastructure and customers


Communications is understood and evolving…

Single, unified systems for all operations

Supporting all operational services

Providing simple flexibility and management

OptimizationSimplification

The evolution to IP is not in question:The question is “when?” and “how?”


An example of IP / MPLS transformation

Modernizing the operational communications network, requiring:

• Seamless transition from legacy to a carrier-class MPLS network infrastructure

• Reliable, secure and integrated communications network supporting

−Mission-critical electric utility applications

−Continued smart grid growth plans

• One of first utilities in North America to plan an integrated IP/MPLS solution

Services supported:

• Teleprotection, SCADA, Operational voice

• NERC cyber security, security surveillance

• Metering, corporate communications, network management and provisioning

Outcome:

• Altalink now evangelising IP/MPLS in utilities www.utilitympls.comThe first utility to transport of mission-critical teleprotection traffic over IP/MPLS

First teleprotection circuits now live


Flexible data management will be as important as effective communications management

… but what about data?

Traditionally

• Data has been vertically integrated with its application

• Data volumes have been small

Smart grids will change this

• Tomorrow’s data paths risk becoming a tangle of logical connections

• The large volumes of real-time data from large volumes of sensors

Perform’Mgt

OutageMgt

EnergyMgt

NetworkMgt

Retailsystems

Remote controls SCADATelemetrySmart

Meters RES

DemandResponse

Conditionmonitors

Network facing devices

Operations facing systems


Smart Grid EnablementData mediation and intelligent security

Flexibility will only be achieved through intelligent data management

Network facing devices

Operations facing systems

Remote controls SCADATelemetrySmart

Meters RES Conditionmonitors

Perform’Mgt

OutageMgt

EnergyMgt

NetworkMgt

Retailsystems

DemandResponse

Data handling & security layer

Secu

rity

syste

ms

Data aggregation

Data correlation

Data mediation


Benefits of this approach

Flexibility

• Enables secure data sharing on an as-needed basis

• Enables future applications to use today’s data sources, without the necessity of second-guess the requirements

Security

• Ensures flexibility does not sacrifice security

• One security policy applied globally

Manageability

• Provides the tools to manage uncertainties

Operational efficiency

• Enables the optimum use of data

Turns a smart grid revolution into an intelligent evolution


An example project: the ultimate objective of the project

Solar Panels

Fuel Cells

GeothermalEnergy

Micro Wind

Thermostat

Water Heater

Pool Pump

Energy Orb

Smart Appliances

Smart Meterand 2-WayCommunication

CustomerInformationPortalIPTV - WWW

PersonalLoadMgmt.

MarketPrice

Signals

Electric Vehicles

Matching local generation to local demandFinancial benefit to consumer… and to operator

Utility’s service

Electric Vehicles

Domestic loadDomestic supply


Taking the first bite:executing phase 1 of the project

Delivering smart metering, demand side management, automated outage notification

DispatchSensors in

distribution network

Smart meters

Using the existing FTTH communications network

Energy Mgt Systems

Smart Meter Mgt System


What the future might look like

Automating the energy network to becomean information driven utility

Smart Meter Mgt System

Energy Mgt Systems

More sensors in distribution network

Smart meters

Data correlation

Outage Mgt Systems

Incident Mgt Systems

System mgt


Conclusions

Smart Grids is about assuring and improving

Power Delivery

Power Quality

Operational Efficiency

Green Energy

Customer intimacy

Data and communications are going to be key enablers

Becoming a data driven utility should be an ultimate goal

This makes it easy to divide up the elephant called smart grids


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