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City of Naperville, IL (City of Naperville Smart Grid Initiative)
March 2012
The City of Naperville (Naperville) Smart Grid Initiative project involves a citywide deployment of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and an expansion of distribution automation capabilities, which includes circuit switches, remote fault indicators, and smart relays. Customers are allowed to purchase devices that assist in managing electricity use and costs, including in-home displays, programmable communicating thermostats, and direct load control devices for anticipation in load management programs. This project allows: (1) participants to view their energy use through in-home displays, a Web portal, or both; and (2) Naperville to manage, measure, and verify targeted demand reductions during peak periods. The new AMI and distribution automation technologies are intended to help improve service quality and reliability, by enabling outage management, distribution circuit monitoring, and automated circuit switching.
Town of Danvers, MA
March 2012
The Town of Danvers Smart Grid Implementation Program includes advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)and automated distribution equipment. Smart meters and AMI for Danvers residential, commercial, and industrial customers support time-based rate programs and a home energy network pilot. AMI is aimed at helping customers manage their energy usage, and Danvers hopes to reduce meter reading costs and air pollution by reducing truck rolls for meter reading. Benefits from distribution automation include better reliability and lower line losses.
Amber Kinetics Interim Report
March 2012
This report was prepared by Amber Kinetics, Inc. It is a technology performance interim report.
Indianapolis Power & Light Company (Smart Energy Project)
March 2012
Indianapolis Power & Light Company's (IPL) Smart Energy project is deploying distribution automation, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and customer systems assets to improve the operational efficiency of its distribution systems. Distribution automation assets include automated controls, relays, and reclosers, which are used to reduce operations and maintenance costs and restoration times. AMI assets include 10,400 smart meters, and customer systems include programmable communicating thermostats. Through pilot programs, IPL is determining best practices for peak demand management through pricing and the impacts of new technologies including electric vehicles and charging stations.
Talquin Electric Cooperative Case Study
March 2012
Located in northern Florida, and bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, Talquin Electric Cooperatives (TEC) service territory spans four counties and covers about 2,600 square miles. TECs SmartGrid Program has a total budget of $16.2 million (including $8.1 million of federal cost-sharing through the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program) and deploys advanced metering infrastructure to approximately 56,000 customers and upgrades 46 of 86 circuits with advanced capacitors and switches for voltage control and better outage management.
Smart Grid: A Race Worth Winning? A Report on the Economic Benefits of Smart Grid
March 2012
This report provides a detailed assessment of the potential benefits that might accrue to the British economy as a result of the development of smart grid.
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Impact Analysis Approach - Peak Demand Reduction and Consumption
February 2012
Build and impact metric data provided by the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) recipients convey the type and extent of technology deployment, as well as its effect on grid operations and system efficiency. This presentation reports on peak demand and electricity consumption among SGIG recipients.
CenterPoint Energy Case Study
February 2012
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CenterPoint), a transmission and distribution service provider (TDSP) in Texas, is deploying smart metering technology and distribution automation equipment to make its operations run more efficiently, lower costs and environmental emissions, and provide the opportunity for consumers to better manage both their electricity use as well as costs. Along with other TDSPs in Texas, CenterPoint is uploading 15-minute electricity consumption data to a statewide web portal, helping consumers better understand their consumption patterns and electricity cost drivers. Thanks to $200 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the Smart Grid Investment Grant program (SGIG), CenterPoint has been able to accelerate by two years the installation of smart meters for all of its 2.2 million residential and small commercial customers as well as enabling CenterPoint to deploy intelligent grid distribution automation technologies that will enhance system reliability for critical infrastructure facilities in its service territory.
Southwest Smart Grid Peer-to-Peer Workshop
February 2012
The Southwest Regional Smart Grid Peer-to-Peer Workshop took place March 21-22, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was hosted by NV Energy. More than 60 stakeholders attended, representing utilities from Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Participants included both DOE-funded and non-DOE-funded smart grid projects, representing large investor-owned utilities, rural cooperatives, and municipal electrical authorities.
Sioux Valley EmPOWER Critical Peak Pricing Pilot Assessment
February 2012
Sioux Valley Energy (SVE) is an electric distribution cooperative serving approximately 21,000 electric customers in Minnesota and South Dakota. In 2009, SVE won a Smart Grid Investment Grant which enabled it to complete the installation of a system-wide AMI system, including necessary backhaul equipment, communication systems, and approximately 29,000 smart meters.
Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Savings from Distribution Automation
February 2012
Build and impact metric data provided by Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) recipients convey the type and extent of technology deployment, as well as its effect on grid operation and system efficiency. This presentation reports on savings from distribution automation deployed by SGIG recipients.
Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Savings from Advanced Metering
February 2012
Build and impact metric data provided by the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) recipients convey the type and extent of technology deployment, as well as its effect on grid operation and system efficiency. This presentation reports on savings from advanced metering deployed by SGIG recipients.
Impact Analysis Approach - Energy Efficiency In Distribution Systems
February 2012
Build and impact metric data provided by the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) recipients convey the type and extent of technology deployment, as well as its effect on grid operations and system efficiency. This presentation reports on energy efficiency in distribution systems among SGIG recipients.
City of Glendale Case Study
February 2012
City-owned Glendale Water and Power (GWP) has completed its smart meter installation and is implementing a suite of new offerings to improve operational efficiencies and help customers save energy and manage their electric bills. With $20 million in Smart Grid Investment Program (SGIG) funds, the municipal utility has been able to replace all 85,000 electric meters in Glendale well ahead of schedule. Without the DOE funding, completion of our smart meter deployment would have been a few more years out and would have not included some of the technologies and capabilities that we now have available, said Glenn Steiger, GWPs General Manager.
2010 Smart Grid System Report
January 2012
The 2010 Smart Grid System Report (SGSR) to Congress explores the current status of smart grid development, its future prospects, and the technical and financial obstacles to progress. It also outlines the scope of a smart grid, assesses the stakeholder landscape and provides several recommendations for future reports. The report concludes that near-term progress in smart grid deployments has been significant due primarily to the investments made under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Distributed Generation
January 2012
One of a series of five reports about estimating the benefits of smart grid technologies similar to what is being deployed in the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program. This report focuses on the impacts of distribution automation technologies deployed in the SGIG projects.
Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Demand Response
January 2012
One of a series of five reports about estimating the benefits of smart grid technologies similar to what is being deployed in the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program. This report focuses on the demand response technologies.
Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Distribution Automation
January 2012
One of a series of five reports about estimating the benefits of smart grid technologies similar to what is being deployed in the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program. This report focuses on distribution automation technologies.
NIST Special Publication 1108R2: NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0
January 2012
This document, Release 2.0 of the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, details progress made in Phases II and III of NIST's three-phase plan since the establishment of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) in November 2009.
Realizing the Value of an Optimized Electric Grid
January 2012
This report contains case study examples and in these examples , both quantitative and qualitative values have been captured.
Impact Analysis Approach - Distribution System Reliability
January 2012
Build and impact metric data provided by the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) recipients convey the type and extent of technology deployment, as well as its effect on grid operations and system efficiency. This presentation describes how the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to analyze and report reliability impact information.
OG&E Smart Study TOGETHER Impact Final Results
January 2012
The primary goal of OG&Es Smart Study TOGETHER is to assess the impact of multiple levels of enabling technology combined with different dynamic pricing rates on a customers energy consumption. A randomized study design was implemented with participant and control groups to estimate the load reduction associated with rate-technology combinations. This report provides summary information about the results of the study, with load reductions in tabular and graphical form, accompanied by comments.
Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Thermal Energy Storage
January 2012
One of a series of five reports about estimating the benefits of smart grid technologies similar to what is being deployed in the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program. This report focuses on the thermal energy storage area of technologies.
Ofgem Consumer First Panel: Year 4 Findings from first workshops (held in October and November 2011)
December 2011
This report contains information about the round of workshops with Ofgem Consumer First Panelists which was intended to help Ofgem understand the key pieces of information energy consumers need to help them review their energy options, and how consumers would prefer this information to be presented.
