Smart communications for the
Smart Grid
•Peter Johnson
June 2010
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Today utilities are facing a storm of issues…
Satisfy Customers
in fast growing energy consumption and demand context
Deploy secure networks
quality power
Efficiency Innovate Be Green reduce carbon emissions
Cope with Regulatory Rules
Meet the challenge of distributed generation
transition to renewable energy sources
Retain Talent with aging workforce
Increase the Bottom Line Asset Return Security
New Technologies Gain Market Share
Execute faster than the others Automation…
to manage uninterrupted, constant flow of
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…driven by different requirements of “the smart grid”
Renewables integration
Canada
Operational Efficiency
Asset Optimization
US
Reduce peak-hour
Secure electricity supplies
Promote micro-generation Boost energy conservation
Europe
China
High Power Quality
with RES
Japan
Africa
Brazil
Secure electricity supplies
Distributed Generation
Asset Optimization
Secure electricity supplies
Shave off seasonal peak
Diverse business goals
Common drive that will transform utilities
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Australia
Dividing up the smart grid into manageable pieces
Power Delivery
Non-stop energy delivery, despite…
• Rising seasonal demand
• Advent of electric vehicles
• Aging infrastructure
Power Quality
A legal requirements, despite…
• Mass small scale renewables
• Increasingly “noisy” loads
Operational efficiency
Better cost control, requiring…
• Improved operational processes
• Better asset utilisation
Green Energy
Pressure on CO2 footprint:
• Mass smaller scale renewables
• Management of energy losses
Customer intimacy
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Creating value for customers
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Smart Grid is IT and communications intensive
Executive dashboards
T&D operations
EMS
DMS
SCADA
DSM
T&D planning and engineering
Systems planning
Bidding and scheduling
Trading and contracts
Planning & forecasting
Settlements
Asset mgmt
Distribution management
Business
processes and
data exchange
Procurement and Market Ops
CMMS
GIS
OMS
DWMS
Customer services
AMI Head-end
MDMS
CRM/Genesys
Telecommunications infrastructure
Secure, highly reliable, scalable
Plant
operations
Transmission
operations
Substation
automation
Distribution
automation
Advanced metering
infrastructure
Distributed
generation,
renewables
Energy infrastructure and customers
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PHEVs
Smart meters
Demand response
Home area network
Communications is understood and evolving…
Optimization
Simplification
Single, unified systems for all operations
Supporting all operational services
Providing simple flexibility and management
The evolution to IP is not in question:
The question is “when?” and “how?”
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An example of IP / MPLS transformation
Modernizing the operational communications network, requiring:
• Seamless transition from legacy to a carrier-class MPLS network infrastructure
• Reliable, secure and integrated communications network supporting
− Mission-critical electric utility applications
− Continued smart grid growth plans
• One of first utilities in North America to plan an integrated IP/MPLS solution
Services supported:
• Teleprotection, SCADA, Operational voice
• NERC cyber security, security surveillance
• Metering, corporate communications, network management and provisioning
Outcome:
• Altalink now evangelising IP/MPLS in utilities
www.utilitympls.com
The first utility to transport of mission-critical teleprotection traffic over IP/MPLS
First teleprotection circuits now live
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… but what about data?
Traditionally
• Data has been vertically integrated with its application
• Data volumes have been small
Smart grids will change this
• Tomorrow’s data paths risk becoming a tangle of logical connections
• The large volumes of real-time data from large volumes of sensors
Operations
facing systems
Retail
systems
Outage
Mgt
Energy
Mgt
Network facing
devices
Smart
Meters
Remote
controls
Telemetry
Network
Mgt
Perform’
Mgt
SCADA
Flexible data management will be as important as
effective communications management
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RES
Demand
Response
Condition
monitors
Smart Grid Enablement
Data mediation and intelligent security
Data handling &
security layer
Network facing
devices
Retail
systems
Outage
Mgt
Smart
Meters
Energy
Mgt
Network
Mgt
Perform’
Mgt
Demand
Response
Data mediation
Security
systems
Operations
facing systems
Data correlation
Data aggregation
Remote
controls
Telemetry
SCADA
RES
Flexibility will only be achieved through intelligent data management
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Condition
monitors
Benefits of this approach
Flexibility
• Enables secure data sharing on an as-needed basis
• Enables future applications to use today’s data sources,
without the necessity of second-guess the requirements
Security
• Ensures flexibility does not sacrifice security
• One security policy applied globally
Manageability
• Provides the tools to manage uncertainties
Operational efficiency
• Enables the optimum use of data
Turns a smart grid revolution into an intelligent evolution
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An example project: the ultimate objective of the project
Domestic supply
Domestic load
Customer
Information
Portal
IPTV - WWW
Solar Panels
Market
Price
Signals
Fuel Cells
Thermostat
Personal
Load
Mgmt.
Smart Meter
and 2-Way
Communication
Geothermal
Energy
Water Heater
Pool Pump
Utility’s service
Energy Orb
Micro Wind
Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Matching local generation to local demand
Financial benefit to consumer… and to operator
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Smart Appliances
Taking the first bite:
executing phase 1 of the project
Sensors in
distribution network
Dispatch
Smart Meter Mgt System
Using the existing FTTH communications network
Smart meters
Energy Mgt Systems
Delivering smart metering, demand side management, automated outage notification
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What the future might look like
System mgt
Data correlation
More sensors in
distribution network
Smart Meter Mgt System
Smart meters
Energy Mgt Systems
Outage Mgt Systems
Incident Mgt Systems
Automating the energy network to become
an information driven utility
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Conclusions
Smart Grids is about assuring and improving
 Power Delivery
 Power Quality
 Operational Efficiency
 Green Energy
 Customer intimacy
Data and communications are going to be key enablers
Becoming a data driven utility should be an ultimate goal
This makes it easy to divide up the elephant called smart grids
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