A Modern Standard for a Modern Grid
Mark Ossel
Boardmember
OSGP Alliance
VP Echelon EMEA APJ
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Global, non-profit industry/user association
◦ Membership open to any company or individual
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Membership represents entire smart grid value
chain
◦ Utilities, solution providers, enterprise software vendors,
device and meter manufacturers
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Working together to realize the next generation of
the smart grid by standardization
Accepted a.o. by the European Commission as
Stakeholder for smart grid, smart metering
CIAC
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Smart Grid
is More
Than Just
Smart
Meters
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Reliable supply is an economic and national security
concern
Concerns over C02
Move to renewable,
intermittent sources of supply
Distributed generation
Electrical Vehicles
Service quality, cash collection,
non-technical losses, Grid topology insight,
loadcontrol LV, asset management
► Meeting these demands requires a smarter grid & change in
behavior
Need to combine information, manage and control,
while minimizing datatraffic, communication & storage.
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NEW? Enel’s Project In Italy, 2001
World’s largest advanced metering deployment
Echelon Data Concentrator
IP
Management Center
Vision
- smart grid
- services
- communication
- architecture
Meter with Echelon technology
Echelon Power Line technology
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Over 27 million homes and buildings installed
with smart meters
Projected cost of €2.1 billion
Projected annual savings of €500 million and achieved
Norway
> 100 k smart meters
Sweden
Finland
> 1 Million smart meters
550 000 smart meters
350 000 smart meters
Poland
Russia
500 000 smart meters
Denmark
> 1 Million smart meters
Germany
55 000 smart meters
Netherlands
75 000 smart meters
Austria
> 300 000
smart meters
Italy
United States
2001 - 2006: 30 000 000 meters
Jan 2008: 100 000 meters
Sweden
2005 -2007: 600 000 meters
(300k+200k+100k)
Russia
ENERGOAUDITCONTROL (EAC)
Netherlands
Aug 2007: 90 000 meters
+ 275 000
Sweden
June 2006: 75 000 meters
Feb 2008: 38 000 meters
Sweden
Denmark
June 2006: 370 000 meters
April 2008: 170 000 meters
Austria
April 2007: 75 000 meters
+ 75 000 option
Denmark
Aug 2007: 50 000 meters
Germany
Sept 2008: 10 000 meters
SEAS
Denmark
July 2008: 390 000 meters
Denmark
July 2008: 200 000 meters
Finland
Sept 2009: 550 000 meters
(120 000 smart meters – in
Norway)
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Lower cost investment
Lower operating cost
◦ Communication cost (daily on-going communication)
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Reliability, performance
◦ Proven, up to 99.8% ->99.94%-100%
◦ Daily, including Load profiles
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Technical information
◦ Phase, Grid
◦ Outage detection
◦ Grid Topology
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1. Robust & reliable PLC
(EC, CRC, )
2. Efficient protocol OSGP
3. Not only meters
4. Repeating algorithms
LV Transformer centric approach
◦ Be able to run applications within a LV area
(the next generation DC: Edge Control Node)
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OSGP Field Proven Reliability
Customer
Reliability
Load Profile
Data
Readings
# of Meters
99 –100%
Extended PQ
Daily/Hourly
600,000
99.7 – 100%
Extended PQ
Daily/Hourly
400,000
99.94–
100%
Extended PQ
Daily/
15 min
200,000
99.7 – 100%
Extended
Daily/Hourly
170,000
Extended
Daily/15
Min
550.000
99.8%
and firmware
Three main categories of stress:
1. Distribution transformer failures
2. Outages & power quality issues impact service to
customers
3. Losses (technical and non-technical)
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Brings high-performance and reliability TODAY
◦ Best-in-class CENELEC A-band power line performance
◦ Highly efficient and scalable communications and control
protocol
◦ Adaptive and directed meshing
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Provides headroom to grow and support future
applications
Built-in, mandatory security and privacy for every
data exchange
Interoperability with other standards
◦ Enables technology evolution while preserving past
investments
Proven
Open Standards
Multi-Application
www.osgp.org