Building the Smart Grid
Building the Smart Grid
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Agenda
Introduction
What We Do
Two Case Studies:
Pacific Gas & Electric
Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Possibilities ….
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Unprecedented Disruptive Forces and Opportunities
Historical
Reliability Operational
Efficiency
Non-technical
Losses
Security
Recent
Environmental
Regulation
Customer
Involvement
Emerging
Renewables New Sources of Demand
These forces will require utilities to change
Carbon
Monetization
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Company Overview
About Us
• 2002, Born to solve the utility challenges of connecting devices on the grid
• #1 share in networking technology
• ~8M+ homes/businesses networked to date; over 18M under contract
• Smart grid projects on 5 continents
Awards
Growing Deployments Worldwide
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Agenda
Introduction
What We Do
Two Case Studies:
Pacific Gas & Electric
Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Possibilities…
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Silver Spring’s Role
Silver Spring provides a Unified Smart Grid Platform that maximizes utility business value, now and in the future
Residential
Devices
Open, IPv6, secure
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Utility Operation
Smart Grid
Devices
Multiple apps and transports
Commercial &
Industrial Devices
Millions of endpoints deployed
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What We Do – Delivering the Smart Grid Platform
A Complete End-to-End Solution
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Smart Grid Helps Utilities Address These Challenges
Examples
Energy
Generation
Transmission
& Distribution
Consumer
Operational Efficiency
• Meter Reading (AMI)
Environmental targets
•
Distributed renewables
•
Electric vehicles
Smart Grid = Intelligence
Non-technical Loss
• Secure Metering +
Analytics
Reliability
• Automated Switching
(Distribution Automation)
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Outage Management
Customer Involvement
•
Energy awareness and control tools
•
Demand response programs
Information can be leveraged across multiple applications
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Smart Grid Platform Requirements
Strict and Complex
Cost Effective
Open Standards
High Performance
Reliable
Broad Coverage
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Secure
Extensible
Scalable
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Agenda
Introduction
What We Do
Two Case Studies:
Pacific Gas & Electric
Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Possibilities ….
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Example: Smart Metering
Pacific Gas & Electric
System live 90 days after contract signing
After 2 ½ years:
Over 4.2 million fully communicating smart meters on the network
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Installing 60,000 per week
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5.5 million meters by end of 2011
• Meters from Landis+Gyr and GE
• > 500 remote connect/disconnects/day
Now adding: Home Networking, Electric
Vehicles, Distribution Automation, Integration of Renewables…
Smart Meter Communications Can Create The Foundation For Smart Grid
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Devices
Meters
Connecting Homes and Businesses
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Network Infrastructure
Access Points Relays
It Starts with the Network – Very Low Capital and Operational Cost
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AMI Benefits
PG&E
Remote Service Operation
Description
• Silver Spring Networks enabled meters allow
PG&E to provide remote switching service without sending a truck
~$500M per year
Operational cost savings
&
Results: PG&E conducted ~215k remote operations during 2010
Improved customer service
Source: PG&E; Silver Spring estimates
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A New Perspective
“We thought we were undertaking an infrastructure project but it turned out to be a customer project.”
- Chris Johns, President, PG&E
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Champion the Consumer Benefits of Smart Grid
“Energy efficient products have given our business a 33% return on investment.”
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The people with the power in the energy industry of the 21
st
century are the demanding energy customers who will rule as never before.
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OGE Engaged Customers with an Open and Unified Platform
Show immediate value to consumers
Avoid customer backlash
Improve energy efficiency
Lower customer bills
Enhance your brand
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Multiple Touch Points with Your Customers
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Customer Information – Your Energy Use
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Customer Information – Compare to Your Neighborhood
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The Results
57%
Maximum Demand
Reduction during
Peak Period
11-33%
Average Energy
Reduction On the
Highest Price Days
96%
Customer
Satisfaction
Rating
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Building the Bridge with Information
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An Open and
Unified Smart Grid
Platform is
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“The Opportunity: A smart grid platform builds a bridge with your customers in our common challenges”
New York Regulators Announce “Rules of the Road”
Announcement on August 18 th , 2011
“ Provide Return on Investment to Consumers ” --- show me the money
“ Work with Proven Smart Grid Technologies ” --- this is not YouTube
“ Invest in Comprehensive Customer Education Plan ” --- customers not a meter
“ Protect Customer Privacy ” --- this is not Facebook
“ Increase Grid capabilities to add new technologies ” ---
“ Rate recovery via traditional methods ” ---
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Getting Started
From our experience
Define Your Long-
Term Vision
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Identify set of challenges
& opportunities to address over the next 10+ years
▪ Avoid “series of tests to discover a vision”
Choose the Right
Platform
▪
Select a proven communication platform that can support your vision
▪
Avoid choosing fragmented “parts”
Unified
Smart Grid
Platform
IPv6, end-to-end security
Deliver Maximum
Benefits Quickly
▪
Deploy 1-2 solutions to address urgent issues
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Implement at scale to realize benefits
Accelerate and de-risk the journey toward your future vision
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Utility Business Value from Silver Spring Platform
True smart grid platform – with successful customers
Innovation – market leading investments
Future-proofed – built on open standards
Leading cost-performance
Proven, lower risk, cost-effective
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Gracias
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