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SMUD Interim Report
September 2013
An interim evaluation of the pilot design, implementation, and evaluation of the Sacramento Municipal Utility Districts Consumer Behavior Study
Duke Energy Business Services (Smart Grid Deployment)
September 2013
Duke Energy Business Services, LLCs (Duke) Smart Grid Program began in 2008 and includes the development and implementation of comprehensive end-to-end solutions that will transform its five-state electric system, and lead to products and services that increase the consumers role in reducing energy use and carbon emissions. Dukes Smart Grid Deployment projects include advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and distribution automation systems in five states. The projects involve large-scale deployments of AMI and distribution automation in Ohio and North Carolina, and smaller limited deployments of distribution automation in Indiana, Kentucky and South Carolina. The effort also includes pilot programs for electricity pricing including time-of-use rates, peak-time rebates, and critical-peak pricing. Customers in these pilot programs will test home area networks, Web portals, and direct load control devices to reduce their electricity consumption and peak demand. In December 2008, Duke received a state regulatory order to proceed with Smart Grid deployment in Ohio.
FirstEnergy (Smart Grid Modernization Initiative)
September 2013
FirstEnergy Services Corporations Smart Grid Modernization Initiative project includes deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), distribution automation assets, time-based rate programs, load control, and customer systems in New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. AMI for residential and commercial customers enables two-way communication and helps customers manage energy use and bills. Distribution automation includes capacitor and regulator controls and feeder switches. Direct load control devices are being deployed to reduce peak demand. The project also includes a statistically rigorous consumer behavior study to assess load impacts and customer acceptance of time-based rate programs.
Smart Grid Customer Engagement
September 2013
The success of the Smart Grid will depend in part on consumers taking a more proactive role in managing their energy use, and customer engagement within the electric power industry is an evolving, ongoing process. The report compiles practical advice on the successful approaches used by utilities to engage customers regarding smart grid technology deployments, and includes insights and examples about articulating the vision and guiding principles, developing a customer-centric engagement plan, developing a budget and preparing the business case.
ATK Launch Systems-Integrated, Automated DG Technologies Demonstration Phase I Extension
August 2013
ATK Launch Systems in Promontory, Utah comprises over 540 buildings on a sprawling 19,900-acre site accessible by 75 miles of roads. Their power system of three main substations and 60 miles of power lines deliver about 17 MW (on-peak) to the facilities, with an annual energy bill of over $15 million. The objective of this project is to "develop and demonstrate a diverse system of renewable distributed generation technologies that are integrated into an intelligent automation system with two-way communications to the utility and that will produce an on-demand reduction of 15% of substation load." The ATK Launch Systems Demonstration Project technology includes: Renewable Energy Sources, which are waste heat recovery system's 100 kW of generation, wind turbines (water pumping/compressed air storage) 100 kW total capacity, and 500 kW of total storage capacity. The wind and waste heat generators will provide energy to recharge the storage systems. The project includes load aggregation and monitoring, fault detection and diagnostics, remote monitoring and control, two-way customer-utility web interface, black start, historical trending and reports, as well as alarm and event notification.
Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (Advanced Data Acquisition and Management Program)
August 2013
Salt River Projects (SRP) Advanced Data Acquisition and Management Program project involves the installation of smart meters, supporting communication infrastructure, and the expansion of advanced electric service options for customers. Virtually all SRP customers are receiving new smart meters, which monitor electric consumption and power quality. A two-way communication system relays customer electricity data to the utility, where upgraded software platforms analyze and present the data. SRP expects the smart meters to reduce meter-reading costs and field service visits, lower vehicle emissions, and enable development of advanced electric services for customers. These services include a Web portal and expansion of existing time-of-use rates that empower the customer and enable a lower peak demand for SRP. Transformer metering is being monitored and evaluated and sub-metering is being used to assess of desert high temperatures on customer air conditioning units and energy consumption.
San Diego Gas & Electric (Borrego Springs Microgrid)
August 2013
San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) will conduct a pilot scale proof-of-concept test in San Diego, California of how advanced GridWiseTM information-based technologies and DER may increase asset utilization and reliability of the power grid in a nationally scalable approach. The application of appropriate technologies in an integrated fashion has the potential to allow more power to be delivered through existing infrastructure and reduce the need to build more in the future.
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) (The Perfect Power Prototype for the Illinois Institute of Technology)
August 2013
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in collaboration with Exelon, the Galvin Electricity Initiative (GEI), S&C Electric and other key partners (the team) propose to develop, demonstrate, promote, and commercialize a system and supporting technologies that will achieve "Perfect Power" at the main campus of IIT. This will be a self healing, learning and self-aware Smart Grid that identifies and isolates faults, reroutes power to accommodate load changes and generation, and dispatches generation and reduces demand based on price signals, weather forecasts, and loss of grid power.
Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative (Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative Smart Grid Project)
August 2013
The Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative Smart Grid project ('ConnSMART Program') involves the deployment of 35,000 advanced meters and interval usage web presentment to 24,000 customers of the four participating municipal utilities (Groton Utilities, Jewett City Department of Public Utilities, Norwich Public Utilities, and South Norwalk Electric and Water). The project will offer small pilot programs to introduce and test voluntary time-based rates and direct load control devices and will fully automate all substations located within Groton Utilities two service territories. The project will develop a new business intelligence platform utilized to improve understanding and control of wholesale power costs. The project aims to increase reliability, staff and asset productivity and customer service as well as enable customers to understand and take action to control their own energy use. Together, these benefits are aimed at controlling and potentially reducing customer power costs while improving customer usage understanding, service level and communications quality.
Consolidated Edison Company of NY (Interoperability of Demand Response Resources Demonstration in NY)
August 2013
Increasing Con Edison's ability to harness demand response resources is a key to limiting system peak demand in one of the largest and most complex electric power systems in the world. This project demonstrates methods to enhance the integration of demand response resources into the distribution network to enhance its reliability and efficiency. This project demonstrates the required software, protocols and communication infrastructure required to enable distributed resources to improve load control, increase system efficiency and reliability, and optimize these resources in the distribution network. Interoperability is being demonstrated by the ability to integrate the operation of a variety of conventional and renewable demand response resources into the existing distribution network. A goal of this project is to develop standards that will excite non-participating distributed resources to consider being engaged in this kind of program.
CCET Interim Report
August 2013
The Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) has prepared this Technology Performance Report (TPR) for its smart grid regional demonstration project in response to specified DOE reporting requirements. The format of this document follows DOEs TPR Guidelines dated June 17, 2011.
UNLV - Decreasing the Peak Demand in the Desert Southwest
August 2013
This project demonstrates dramatic peak demand reduction in residential new construction through distributed generation, distributed energy storage, energy efficiency, direct load control and price-responsive load control. In cooperation with a nationally recognized home builder, a green field development of 185 homes has been built in which each home was designed for optimal energy efficiency and electrically metered with the most advanced technology available. Efficiency improvement over conventionally designed homes has exceeded 45% and the goal of 65% efficiency is expected when storage batteries are adopted by home owners. The multi-faceted approach to effective and efficient electricity use includes solar photovoltaic systems, direct and price-responsive load control and peak load reduction strategies. Most importantly, UNLV is directing this development along with the local utility with cutting edge metering and communication technologies to assess the cooperative behavior of residences in the goal of electricity conservation. An Intelligent Agent software system has been developed to integrate Internet and communications with home owners that weaves customer preferences into the energy savings strategy in a way to that is intended to excite and engage residential customers in the demand management process.
Research Development and Demonstration of Peak Load Reduction on Distribution Feeders Using Distributed Energy Resources for the City of Fort Collins
August 2013
The primary aim of the project is to demonstrate the monitoring, aggregation, distribution system integration, dispatch, and verification of distributed generation, renewable energy, and demand response resources (collectively, Distributed Energy Resources or DER) for reducing peak loading on two feeders within Fort Collins Utilities electric distribution network by at least 15% (target goal is in the 20% to 30% range). Over 3.5 megawatts (MW) of DER from approximately 5 different participant locations were aggregated to demonstrate technical feasibility and the benefits of DER to asset owners and distribution network operations. Distributed generation sources (including renewable generation sources) that will be part of the demonstration include photovoltaic, micro-turbines, dual fuel CHP systems using process-generated methane, reciprocating engines, conventional backup generators, wind turbine simulator, plug-in hybrid electrics in a vehicle-to-grid configuration, and fuel cells. Demand response capabilities will be aggregated from a mix of heating and air conditioning loads, process loads, and thermal storage. Energy efficiency upgrades will also contribute toward long-term reduction of loads on the selected feeders.
Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (Managing Distribution System Resources for Improved Service Quality & Reliability, Transmission Congestion Relief & Grid Support Functions)
August 2013
The overarching project objective is to develop and demonstrate a distribution automation solution that aggregates distributed generation (DG), energy storage, and demand response technologies in a distribution system to achieve both distribution and transmission level benefits. Ideally, the application of these new technologies would increase system reliability and improve power quality along with reducing costs to both the utility and its customers. The project is broken up into two phases. In Phase One, energy management architecture will be developed and validated to meet all needs, focusing on energy management at the distribution level. In Phase Two, the capabilities will be demonstrated at a Maui Electric Company, Ltd. (MECO) substation at Wailea on Maui. A major goal of the program is to incorporate advanced technology into the Maui grid that will allow for a reduction of peak energy consumption of at least 15% of the automated feeder upon completion. The 200 MW island system will include roughly 72 MW of wind generation and over 15 MW of solar PV. As of June 5, 2013 12 MW of storage have been installed on the island.
Chevron Energy Solutions L.P. CERTS: Microgrid Demonstration with Large-Scale Energy Storage and Renewables at Santa Rita Jail
August 2013
The overarching objectives of the proposed demonstration are to significantly reduce peak load and measurably improve power reliability at Santa Rita Jail. This will be accomplished by implementing a CERTS (Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions) microgrid that incorporates one of the nations largest customer-sited NaS energy storage systems with multiple distributed energy resources. By effectively reducing peak load, the project will improve grid reliability, increase grid efficiency and security. By providing islanding capability, the project will meet critical customer reliability requirements.
City of Painesville, Ohio Vanadium Redox Battery Demonstration Program Project Description
August 2013
The City of Painesville, Ohio and its partners will demonstrate vanadium redox battery storage capacity at the 32 megawatt (MW), coal-fired Painesville Municipal Electric Plant (PMEP). Using stored power enables the facility to attain the same daily output requirement, more efficiently and with a lower carbon footprint. When the project is fully implemented, the plant will operate at a constant 26 MW, 80 percent of rated capacity. The long-term goal is to scale the battery system in stages, ultimately upgrading the facility to 10 MW of capacity with up to 80 MW hours of storage. In the first phase, 1 MW of power with 6 to 8 hours of storage will be installed. This capacity is sufficient for Painesville to evaluate the benefits of energy storage, assess its uses in optimizing power generation efficiency, and facilitate American Municipal Power with leveling the peak demands of the system. A bi-directional four quadrant inverter, with a rated capacity of 1.0MW and 1,440 amps at 480 VAC, will be used to provide AC/DC and voltage conversions. The battery will be constructed with two parallel electrolyte flow systems providing the total net electrical capacity of 1.0 MW. Each subsystem will be comprised of 64, 10kW stacks. The subsystems will be arranged in parallel to supply peak operating loads. Each stack subsystem will have their electrolyte flow into two 15,000 gallon polymer tanks, at rates ranging between 500 and 1500 gallons per minute. The battery components will be produced in the United States and the stacks will be assembled in Painesville before being installed at the PMEP Battery Building.
Primus Power Corporation Wind Firming EnergyFarm Project Description
August 2013
Primus Power is deploying a 25MW/75MWh EnergyFarmTM in the Modesto Irrigation District (MID) in California central valley that consists of an array of 250kW EnergyPods; plug-and-play zinc-flow battery modules and power electronics systems housed inside ISO shipping containers. The modular design and operation will be field tested at Pacific Gas & Electric with support from Sandia National Laboratories and the Electric Power Research Institute. The 25MW EnergyFarmTM will support MIDs efforts to balance increasing amounts of renewable generation and more efficiently manage its fleet of generating assets to meet peak loads. The system will likely be deployed incrementally in multiple substations and provide additional benefits such as local-area voltage stability and deferral of substation upgrades. EnergyFarmsTM are scalable and rapidly deployable, and can be scaled to greater than 100MW/300MWh in increments of 250kW/750kWh.
Pepco-Maryland Smart Grid Project - INTERIM REPORT
August 2013
The Pepco - Maryland Smart Grid project includes distribution automation, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and a demand response program that involves direct load control and time-based rate programs. The AMI installation is designed to provide customers and Pepco with detailed electricity usage information, which, when combined with demand response programs, can help customers reduce their electricity usage and manage their electricity costs. The distribution automation deployment includes substation smart devices, automated distribution circuit reclosers/switches, fault indicators, and transformer monitors that can improve the reliability of the distribution system while decreasing the cost of operations and maintenance.
Oncor Electric Delivery Company Dynamic Line Rating Project Description
August 2013
Oncor and its partners are conducting studies to remove constraints that prevent utilities from using Dynamic Line Rating (DLR) technology. Oncor will install and commission DLR technology at 26 locations distributed along eight transmission circuits located in Bell, Bosque, Falls, Hill, McLennan, and Williamson counties in central Texas. These circuits have been identified as significantly constrained by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. At each location sensors will be attached to transmission towers. Radio receivers will be installed inside ten substations. The remaining dynamic line rating components will be housed at a transmission management system control center in Dallas. DLR technology uses a tension sensing device installed directly in a transmission circuit that accurately rates the conductor allowing better line management that enables the reduction of grid congestion. The use of DLR will provide the true transfer capacity of the grid in real time accounting for actual weather conditions. Oncor will demonstrate how installation can be streamlined; optimize the number of monitors required to rate the transmission line; train installation crews in effective installation practices; evaluate current calibration techniques to improve productivity and accuracy; and develop a best practices manual for future installations. Oncor will also demonstrate a technology that monitors line sag/clearances without requiring mounting equipment on the structures or line, which provides the flexibility to move sensors as needed.
New York Power Authority Evaluation of Instrumentation and Dynamic Thermal Ratings for Overhead Lines Project Description
August 2013
New York Power Authority (NYPA) and its partners will implement and demonstrate the effects that Dynamic Thermal Circuit Ratings (DTCR) technology can have on areas of the New York State transmission system where there is the potential for wind generation. NYPA will use real-time thermal ratings measurements to correlate increased wind generation and increased transmission capacity, which could defer millions of dollars in capital expenditures on transmission projects. DTCR will be applied to three 230 kV transmission lines: Moses-Willis line spanning 710 feet surrounded by inactive agricultural land and low hayfields near to the town of Massena; Willis-Ryan line spanning 580 feet surrounded by cultivated cropland close to Chateaugay; and Moses-Adirondack line spanning 545 feet in Massena surrounded by permanent pasture and near natural forest and wetland.
SuperPower, Inc. Fault Current Limiting Superconducting Transformer Project Description
August 2013
SuperPower and its partners will design, develop, manufacture, install, and demonstrate a Smart Grid compatible Fault Current Limiting (FCL) Superconducting transformer on a live grid utility host site. The 28 MVA three-phase FCL Medium-Power Utility transformer (69 kV/12.47 kV class) will be placed within Southern California Edison's (SCE) MacArthur Substation in Irvine, California. The integrated fault current limiting capability will enable much improved fault current handling. The project will construct the first transformer to use significant amounts of the new second-generation yttrium barium copper oxide superconducting tape. This project is divided into several phases including: conceptual design and development; fabrication and testing of a single-phase device; fabrication and testing of a fully functional prototype three-phase device; and installing, integrating and commissioning the prototype unit with Smart Grid communication and control technology live on the SCE grid. The prototype is planned to operate on the SCE grid with various operational data being collected. Results from this project on cryogenic techniques, high voltage dielectric materials, bushings, and ac losses in high temperature superconductors (HTS) will also be useful to cable and other fault current limiter projects. SuperPower with SPX Transformer Solutions are committed to enable the commercial manufacturing and selling of FCL transformers to the global utility industry through the design and capabilities to be demonstrated by this project.
August 2013 Status Report: Electric Vehicle Charging Demonstration Program for Burbank Water and Power
August 2013
In 2011 BWP received a grant to install publicly accessible Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations to serve as a demonstration of the technology. The grant offered by Charge Point America / Coulomb Technologies provided 11 Level 2 AC charging stations at no cost. Installation was funded by BWP and the US Department of Energy Smart Grid Investment Grant. The 11 stations were installed at six locations: Three privately owned parking lots and three City owned lots. Nine stations are in the downtown area and two in the southwest corner of the City at Lakeside Center. This report provides an overview and status report of the EV charging station program which has completed 20 months of service. The objectives of the program are to promote the use of electric transportation and evaluate the use of charging stations installed in the City and operated by BWP. Several aspects of this process are being evaluated, including charger load characteristics, charger pricing options, customer response to pricing, and charger demand response capabilities. Impact on utility operations and reliability are also assessed.
Entergy New Orleans SmartView Pilot: Final Evaluation Report
August 2013
In October 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected Entergy New Orleans, Inc. (ENO) to receive a $5 million stimulus grant for a pilot project aimed at helping low-income customers better manage their electric bills and to provide the company with valuable information regarding the acceptance of customers in this demographic of several specific Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)-enabled demand-response programs. The stimulus grant was part of an $800 billion economic stimulus bill passed by Congress, with some projects targeted to improve utility infrastructure. DOE received approximately 400 applications for its Smart Grid Investment Grant stimulus funding, with only 100 projects selected to receive funding. The New Orleans City Council approved the pilot project on May 20, 2010. Customer research began in September 2010, stakeholder training and education began in November 2010, and customer solicitation and enrollment began in December 2010. ENO developed and implemented the Smart Grid pilot program, known as "SmartView," to customers, beginning in June of 2011 to evaluate customer behavior and the impacts of peak time rebates, air conditioning load controls, and other enabling technologies with the potential to reduce customer electricity usage and peak demands. The pilot targeted ENO's low-income customers and included smart meters, in-home displays (IHD), programmable communicating thermostats (PCT), and Web portals. ENO's SmartView pilot was the only DOE-funded Smart Grid technology pilot program exclusively focused on low-income customer segments. ENO's intent is for the SmartView pilot to serve as a customer behavior study to be used in potentially developing future programs that will assist and empower the low-income demographic segment in managing its energy consumption. Efforts like the SmartView pilot have the potential to be particularly impactful for low-income populations, as the cost of electricity in the low-income segments is a high percentage of customers' overall income. Additionally, the findings of the SmartView pilot could be highly useful for other utilities in developing Smart Grid programs for low-income customers.
SustainX, Inc. Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage Project Description
August 2013
SustainX is developing and demonstrating a modular, market-ready energy storage system that uses compressed air as the storage medium. SustainX uses a crankshaft-based drivetrain to convert electrical energy into potential energy stored as compressed air. SustainXs ICAES system captures the heat from compression in water and stores the captured heat until it is needed again for expansion. Storing the captured heat eliminates the need for a gas combustion turbine and improves efficiency. SustainX achieves isothermal cycling by combining patented innovations with a design based on mature industrial components and principles. The system is designed for a 20- year lifetime. It achieves full power output from start-up in less than one minute, and it does not use toxic chemicals.
Synchrophasor Technologies and their Deployment in the Recovery Act Smart Grid Programs
July 2013
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), is implementing the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) and Smart Grid Demonstration programs (SGDP) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). These programs are deploying smart grid technologies, tools, and techniques for electric transmission, distribution, advanced metering, and customer systems. Twelve of the SGIG and SGDP projects are deploying synchrophasor technologies and systems to strengthen the reliability and efficiency of transmission system operations. This report, based on an analysis by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, focuses on the initial data provided by the Recovery Act-funded synchrophasor projects and provides information on the technologies and systems, applications, and costs and benefits.
