Title: Smart Grid City: A blueprint for a connected, intelligent grid community
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2Smart Grid CityA blueprint for a connected,
intelligent grid community
- Dennis Stephens
- Director, Utility Innovations and Smart Grid
Investments - OSI Users Conference
- September, 23 2008
3Drivers for change
- Grid reliability
- Aging assets, heightened demands
- Environment
- Global climate change
- Legislative mandates for green power
- Energy Security
- Homeland security
- Dependence on foreign oil
- Customer Choices
- Growing needs and expectations
- Desire for greater flexibility and options
4The Market other efforts
- Smart meters
- Demand side management and distributed generation
- Superconducting cables
- Energy storage devices
- Intelligent home/Smart appliances
- Automatic power power restoration and correction
for voltage, frequency and power factor issues - Renewable energy sector growth
5Xcel Energy - Smart Grid vision approach
- First to present a comprehensive solution
- Broad portfolio of new technologies projects
- Encompassing the entire power pathway
- Fuel source to end-use consumer
- Collaborative model
- Shared risk, shared rewards
- Focus on environmental aspects
- Uniquely positions Xcel Energy
6- Accenture
- Current Group
- GridPoint
- OSI Soft
- Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
- Ventyx
- Xcel Energy
- imagine. inspire. innovate.
7SmartGridCity - Boulder, Colo.
- An international showcase of smart grid
possibilities a comprehensive demonstration of
an intelligent grid community
- Test technology
- Integrate smart grid portfolio of projects
- Prove benefits
8Boulders Key Strengths
- Ideal size (50,000 customers/meters)
- Ideal geographic location (easy access to needed
grid components) - Ideal Smart Grid consumers
- Web-savvy, early adopters
- Environmentally aware
- Collaborative opportunities with
- University of Colorado
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- City leaders
9SmartGridCity
- Involves the entire energy pathway from the power
source to the home and all points in between - Rich in IT
- High-speed, real-time, two-way communications
- Sensors enabling rapid diagnosis and corrections
- Dispatched distributed generation (PHEVs, wind,
solar) - Energy storage
- In-home energy controls
- Automated home energy use
10Added green power sources
High-speed, networked connections
Plug-in hybrid electric cars
Customer interaction with utility
Real-time and green pricing Signals
Smart thermostats, appliances and in-home control
devices
Smart House
11We will need to collect, store, analyze and act
on information
- How we might use PI
- Commercial Operation
- Virtual Power Plant
- Substation
- Condition Based Analysis
- Distribution
- System Status and Control
- Customer
- Demand Response/Distributed Generation
12Learn more