Recipient information | Input |
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Total number of customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 196,096 |
Total number of residential customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 171,913 |
Total number of commercial customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 20,335 |
Total number of industrial customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 2,964 |
Total number of AMI smart meters installed and operational prior to the SGIG/SGD program | 0 |
AMI smart meters installed and operational | Quantity* | Cost |
---|---|---|
Total | 0 | $1,255,387 |
Residential | 3,055 | |
Commercial | 681 | |
Industrial | 24 |
AMI smart meter features operational | Feature enabled | # of meters with feature |
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Interval reads | Yes | 3,760 |
Remote connection/disconnection | Yes | 3,760 |
Outage detection/reporting | Yes | 3,760 |
Tamper detection | Yes | 3,760 |
AMI communication networks and data systems | Description | Cost |
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Backhaul communications description | The AMI backhaul method is primarily cable and Sprint's 3G cellular network. | $3,433,652 |
Meter communications network | This is a licensed radio frequency network. This network consists of 17 fixed based communication towers that communicate with endpoints in a point-to-point architecture. An 18th unit has been deployed in a test environment. KUB has one remaining basestation/AMI collector to deploy. | |
Head end server | The Headend System has been installed. This system, referred to as the Remote Network Interface (RNI), supports all two- way commands capable of updating/managing all aspects of the AMI communications infrastructure. Primary components of this are metrology, remote connect/disconnect, meter load profile exports and demand reset. This system will allow programming both meter firmware as well as AMI firmware over the air. | $781,616 |
Meter data analysis system | ||
Other IT systems and applications | NA |
Web portal deployed and operational | Quantity* | Description |
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Customers with access to web portal | 0 | |
Customers enrolled in web portal | 0 | Sensus Metering Systems and partner Harris Utilities will provide the smart grid enhanced web portal. This web portal will be integrated into KUB's existing web application. This will provide customers access to usage of electric, water and gas consumption. In March 2014 KUB completed the implementation of the Harris Utilities ‘CustomerConnect’ customer portal. All testing for the Customer Portal was successfully completed in March. While KUB considers this application “go-live” ready from a technical perspective, there are two final steps remaining before this information will be made available to customers: first to finalize the customer communication plan, and second to complete the branding of the customer portal. |
Customer systems installed and operational | Quantity* | Description | Cost |
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Communication networks and home area networks | N/A | The project's Home Area Network (HAN) will replaced by an enhanced eportal delivering to customers near real-time information about their utility usage. | N/A |
In home displays | 0 | $0 | |
Energy management device | 0 | N/A | |
Direct load control devices | 0 | $0 | |
Programmable communicating thermostats | 0 | $0 | |
Smart appliances | 0 | $0 |
Customer system communication networks | Description |
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Network characteristics within customer premise | The project's Home Area Network (HAN) will replaced by an enhanced eportal delivering to customers near real-time information about their utility usage. |
Pricing program | Customers with access | Customers enrolled | Description |
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Net Metering | 4,200 | 3 | KUB offers net metering for customers participating in a program called "Generation Partners"; an explanation of the program is available on our web site at www.kub.org. TVA will purchase all of the green energy output. Payment is issued in the form of a credit on the participant’s monthly bill by KUB, which will meter both the power use of the home or business and the output of the generation system. |
Realtime Rate | 3 | 0 | KUB passed a rate in 2011 that fits the Real-time Pricing category. As of today, only three customers (all in manufacturing) have access to the rate, and none have signed up for the rate. |
Time of Use Rate | 60 | 10 | Per TVA, KUB's business customers have access to time-differentiated rates through two rate schedules: seasonal or time-of-use. In summary, seasonal rate schedules have a summer period, winter period and a transition period. The summer period is Jun-Sep. The winter period is Dec-Mar. The transition period is Oct-Nov & Apr-May. Time-of-use refers primarily to on-peak and off-peak. Except for Saturdays and Sundays and the weekdays that are observed as Federal holidays for New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day, onpeak hours for each day shall be 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. during the Summer Period and from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. during the Winter Period. For the Summer Period and the Winter Period, all other hours of each day that are not otherwise defined as on-peak hours and all hours of such excepted days shall be off-peak hours. |
Recipient information | Input |
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Total number of customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 196,096 |
Total number of residential customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 171,913 |
Total number of commercial customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 20,335 |
Total number of industrial customers served by utility / utilities supporting the project | 2,964 |
Total number of distribution circuits within utility service territory | 259 |
Total number of distribution substations | 62 |
Portion of distribution system with SCADA prior to SGIG/SGD program | 0 |
Portion of distribution system with distribution automation (DA) prior to SGIG/SGD program | 0 |
Electric distribution system | % | Description |
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Portion of distribution system with SCADA due to SGIG/SGD program | 6.80% | Currently, KUB's method of SCADA communication is supervisory cable (copper). KUB maintains connectivity with all 4 of the KUB substations in the project area (4 of 59 substations in the total system, 6.8%). SCADA communications for the substations will be migrated to fiber optic cable in the project area in the coming months. |
Portion of distribution system with DA due to SGIG/SGD program | 6.40% | 17 project area circuits of 266 total system circuits have DA (6.4% of the total system). KUB currently has 121 DA devices within the project area. 117 are communicating Faulted Circuit Indicators (FCIs), and four are Load Tap Changer Controllers (LTCs). |
DA devices installed and operational | Quantity* | Description | Cost |
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Automated feeder switches | 0 | KUB currently has 121 DA devices within the project area. 117 are communicating Faulted Circuit Indicators (FCIs), and four are Load Tap Changer Controllers (LTCs). | $0 |
Automated capacitors | 0 | $0 | |
Automated regulators | 0 | $0 | |
Feeder monitors | 0 | $0 | |
Remote fault indicators | 117 | $0 | |
Transformer monitors (line) | 0 | $0 | |
Smart relays | 0 | ||
Fault current limiter | 0 | $0 | |
Other devices | 4 | $11,415 |
SCADA and DA communications network | Cost |
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Communications equipment and SCADA | $256,413 |
Distribution management systems integration | Integrated | Description |
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AMI | No | |
Outage management system | Yes | The Outage Management System integration was moved to production in June 2013. This is a real-time integration via web services. This integration is limited to outage/restoration alerts from the AMI system. In addition to reducing the manpower required to answer outage calls from customers, this will help KUB detect nested outages that today go unnoticed until customers call in at a later time. |
Distributed energy resource interface | No | |
Other | No | NA |
Distribution automation features / functionality | Function enabled | Description |
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Fault location, isolation and service restoration (FLISR) | No | KUB currently has no FLISR devices within the project area. |
Voltage optimization | No | KUB has installed four new Load Tap Changer Controllers in the project area. |
Feeder peak load management | No | Tap Changers with the capability to reduce base voltage at 1%, 2%, and 2-1/2 % are installed in the project area. KUB continues to evaluate how much, if any, voltage can be reduced and still provide acceptable service voltage. |
Microgrids | No | |
Other functions | No |
* In some circumstances, costs are incurred before devices are installed resulting in a reported cost where the quantity is zero.
* All dollar figures are the total cost, which is the sum of the federal investment and cost share of the recipient (the recipient cost share must be at least 50% of the total overall project cost).
** In some cases the number of entities reporting is greater than the total number of projects funded by the Recovery Act because some projects have multiple sub-projects that report data. View list of sub-projects.