GE Intelligent Platforms

The Smart Grid for Smaller Utilities: A Practical Strategy

Agenda
Overview of US electric utilities Understand which software capabilities provide critical smart grid functionality Learn how to leverage a forward-looking technology approach Practical smart grid roadmap for making smarter business decisions
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Insert Poll Question Here

Is your utility looking at Smart Grid technology holistically or do you look for point solutions to solve specific problems? - Holistically - Point solutions

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Overview of US electric utilities

Statistics utilities are facing today

92% of all customer outages result from problems on the power distribution system. U.S. electric utilities spend about $18 billion per year on discovering root causes of outages. The average age of a failed substation transformer is 18 years with most transformers reaching 40 years of life. U.S. loads will increase by 23% over the next 20 years. Less than 10% of U.S. co-ops and municipal utilities have launched holistic smart grid initiatives.

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Based on 3060 utilities in USA & Canada

Actual # of Utilities
2773 104 35 17 12 6 7 12 7 13 74

Number of Utilities

Number of meters (customers)

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Customers served and numbers of employees

10,000 customers Typical Number of Employees 33 20,000 customers 65 30,000 customers 100

Very few of these employees are dedicated to Information Technology

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Insert Poll Question here

Is your SCADA system built to interconnect with other Smart Grid software? - Do not have SCADA - Dont know - Yes - No

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Which software capabilities provide critical smart grid functionality?

Practical solutions for local utilities

A survey conducted last summer by GE Intelligent Platforms concluded that small electric utilities were looking for solutions to: Reduce system outages Enhance equipment lifecycles Better manage customer loads Digitize standard operating procedures

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Basic Software to reduce outages SCADA

Reducing System Outages

SCADA systems for real-time view of your substations enabling you to respond remotely to reduce travel time and outage times.

Examples
Monitor and respond to substation outages

Evaluate critical and non-critical equipment alarms

Research trends and determine root causes of outages

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Fault Restoration
Example of a permanent fault in the middle of the night
Power Restored to 50 Customers on Healthy Sections of Feeder
Time to Perform Manual Switching

Fault Occurs

Customer Reports Outage Travel Time

Field Crews On-Scene Fault Investigation & Patrol Time

Fault Located

Power Restored To remaining 50 customers

Repair Time

30 minutes

60 minutes

30 minutes

60 minutes

Areas where SCADA can reduce the time to restoration

Customer hour outage can improve by 40%

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Future software to consider and integrations

Outage Management System (OMS) OMS integrated with GIS Distribution Automation (DA) Integration of AMI data into OMS Volt/VAR control

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Equipment Monitoring

Lifecycle Management
Develop predictive replacement strategies for substation transformers or rotating equipment, enabling utilities to eliminate downtime caused by failures. By understanding current status, you can Improve the lifecycle of your existing assets by knowing they are healthy, adding years of additional use to your investments. Plan for replacing equipment with justification

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Alarm Management
Receive real-time equipment alarms without having to wait for substation or equipment inspections

Have automatic action taken if desired

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The Evolution of Alarm Management

Logging by clipboard Paper History

Logging to Printer Basic ASCII History

Real-Time displays Historical Logging Ability to add Comments Alarm Acknowledgement

Alarm Response Management Guided Response Prioritization of alarms Hierarchy of alarms Step-by-step actions to resolve Approval Routing Automatic Detailed Reports including manual data Analysis of how to improve

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Insert Poll Question here

What is your utilitys response to load management? - None - Control of customers equipment (such as residential water heaters) - TOU pricing to let customers decide - Other
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Load Management
Automating the decisions to use demand response systems

Load Management
Improved information enabling you to more effectively predict and balance customer loads within wholesale and customer constraints.

Benefits
Know when to use control of customer appliances/loads Forecasting of demand available for reduction Forecasting of rebound effect Create consistency in use of controls Manage all constraints related to wholesale and load management
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Load forecasting model analysis

Model Prediction. Blue = Model Red = Actual Values

Inputs to load forecasting model

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Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Make your newest operators as knowledgeable as your best operators by institutionalizing standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Benefits
Combating the brain drain that occurs when knowledgeable employees retire Improving your overall process reliability Documenting compliance with standard procedures and regulations

Examples of SOPs that can be automated

Switching procedures Equipment troubleshooting Outage troubleshooting
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Leverage a forwardlooking technology approach

Open & Layered software architecture look for When specifying software,
open architecture.

Know the platform of the solution (Windows vs Linux/Unix and the costs of supporting this in terms of $, training and people) Be wary of proprietary software/hardware
Determine if software can connect to basic systems, RTUs and relays Can additional solutions be added on easily? Can it support CIP requirements?

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Insert Poll Question here Do you evaluate software solution purchases through a total cost of ownership model including: initial cost, anticipated upgrade costs, and annual maintenance contract costs? - Yes - No
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Practical smart grid roadmap

Roadmap for the next 5-10 years

DEFINE smart grid goals, assess existing technologies

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IMPROVE operations management capabilities LEVERAGE data to make strategic decisions

INTEGRATE and standardize business processes

MANAGE a more intelligent, cost-effective grid

Develop your own roadmap of where you want to be

Think about flexibility, holistic, long-term and integrated approach Watch out for point solutions that solve the immediate need but cant grow Determine if the supplier will be there for you in 10 years Determine any issues with your purchasing policies based on integration requirements or add-ons from suppliers Use total cost of ownership as your comparison metric (ask for hourly prices and see how expensive adding a new sub will be) Be realistic about your staffs time and ability to install SCADA at a substation after the vendor does one substation and trains your staff
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Questions?

Contact Information
Bill Pezalla
Industry Manager Power & Energy GE Intelligent Platforms
M +1 434 906 9200 E William.J.Pezalla@ge.com