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Dr. VSK Murthy Balijepalli
Technical Champion, Green Button
India Smart Grid Task Force
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Big Picture+ Smart Grid Customer Domain
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Tariff mechanisms, new energy products,
energy options and programs to
encourage participation of customers
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Common-sense idea that electricity customers should be able to download and transmit their own energy usage information in a standard consumer- and computer-friendly format
Green Button is a standard that enables consumers to access and share their electricity consumption data in a consistent, digital and secure manner
Markets
• Covers residential, commercial and industrial consumers
Timeliness
• Instant access of consumption data of previous hour/day/ week/month/year…
Time interval
• includes any interval of data (monthly, daily, hourly, 15 minute)
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Two ways to implement Green Button
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This powerful model allows a consumer to authorize a third-party service provider to receive direct access to their Green Button Data - no need to repeatedly login to their
utility and download files. These authorizations are valid for an agreed upon time and can be revoked at anytime by the
consumer
A customer visits their utility web portal, they can simply login and
download their Green Button Data as an XML-formatted file
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Advantages of GREEN BUTTON(Empower Consumers and Spur Innovation)
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Insight• entrepreneur-created web portals analyse energy
usage and provide actionable tips
Education • community and student energy efficiency competitions
Retrofits• improved decision-support tools to facilitate energy
efficiency retrofits
Verification • measurement of energy efficiency investments
Real Estate• provide energy costs for tenants and/or new home
purchasers
Building Benchmarking
• transfer monthly data
Renewables• optimize the size and cost-effectiveness of rooftop
solar panels
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Green Button in USA and other countries
United States in 2011
•renewed call for investments in clean energy
•proposed new incentives to spur energy innovation and eliminate energy waste
•called on Congress to set a clean energy standard that creates a market for innovation
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DOE partnered with utilities and conceptualized GREEN BUTTON
•electricity customers able to securely download their own detailed Energy Usage Information (EUI) from their utility website
•voluntary adoption of an open industry smart grid standard (GREEN BUTTON FORMAT)
•standardized data format
52 utilities provided Green Button support
•enabled consumers to use their usage data to interact with a variety of third-party applications (apps)
•uses include verification of energy audits and retrofits, optimizing solar installations, home-automation controls designed to reduce consumption, etc.
Innovation
•spurred the private entrepreneurs and application developers, creating an industry of new products and services
•marked the beginning of a new era of consumer control over energy use, and local empowerment to cut waste and save money
GREEN BUTTON available to 100M (as of Dec. 2013) consumersRef: http://en.openei.org/wiki/Green_Button
Canada has adopted it in 2013Following countries are considering adoption:
•Australia•China•Japan•Korea•Indonesia
What is the use case to spur innovation in India?
GREEN BUTTON for India – report available at
http://indiasmartgrid.org/en/knowledge-
center/Reports/Green%20Button%20Standards%20
for%20India.pdf
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GREEN BUTTON in India
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Technical champion in Green Button
Engaged in continued research on extending basic
Green Button to consumer applications
Constituted Green Button Panel (with members from
Industry, Utilities, and Academia) to derive Green Button
for India
Submitted a concept note and recommendations to MoP
for Green Button implementation in DISCOMs
BIS LITD-10 (Under the Chairmanship of Sh. NS Sodha) is
pursuing Green Button and started drafting the National Standards
Green Button Standards for India will be finalized in few months
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Current Practices at DISCOMs
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NO EUI to consumers?
EUI- Energy Usage Information
solution
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Indian DISCOM with Green Button
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Consumer outreach, i.e. Engage and Empower
them by providing energy usage data, no regulatory obligations – Let’s share!!!
Efficient energy utility operations through
reduction in procurement costs, solar siting, etc
Supports cost effective deployment
Encouragement of innovative consumer
oriented servicesbenefiting both consumers
and utilities
Building for one DISCOM vs building for many DISCOMs
• Standard data formats
• More innovation on consumer data
• Common applications across all DISCOMs
• Easy accessibility of the data from DISCOMs
• Encouraging entrepreneurs to develop applications
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ISGF-MSEDCL-IITB GB Pilot Implementation
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Area of case study
Vashi town, MH, India
Consumers with AMI
1388 no.s
Scope Development of MIOS to GREEN BUTTON Convertor
Standardization of energy usage information
Consumer engagement through GREEN BUTTON
Implementation steps
Gather consumers information from Databases
Prepare a plan for collecting energy usage information
Check the format definitions
Develop converters to the Green Button
Develop Green Button Database
Develop consumer portal with Green Button download link
Innovate and implement a wide range of applications for consumer EnE*
Implementation time ranges from 2 to 6 months !!!(depends on DISCOM database management practices)
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*EnE- Engagement and Empowerment ; gives completeness to the grid modernization
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Conclusion
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Immediate step
• DISCOMs should understand and implement the basic Green Button format for standardizing the energy usage information
Future
• Utilities/DISCOMs should coordinate each other to standardize the consumer interfaces as per the BIS Standards
Queries? [email protected] / [email protected]
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