Smart Grid City Developing the Smart Grid of the Future

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Smart Grid City Developing the Smart Grid of
the Future

• Colorado Municipal League
• Annual Conference
• June 2009

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What led to Boulders Smart Grid City?

• A history of preserving our environment

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Open Space and Mountain Parks

• 1875-1916 Mountain backdrop purchased

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1959 the Blue Line
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1967
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A History of Firsts

• 1976 Curbside recycling

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Boulder

• Open Space
• Blue Line, height limits
• Managed growth / urban boundary
• CU, NCAR, NOAA, NIST, NREL
• Progressive / innovative

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What led to Boulders Smart Grid City?

• 2002 Kyoto Protocol Goal
• 2003 Municipalization
• 2005 Two phase investigation
• 2006 Climate Action Plan Tax

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Climate Action Plan

• Adopted in June, 2006
• Roadmap to the Kyoto Goal
• Outlines actions and estimated results from
  2007-2012
• Varied strategies for each of the three main
  sectors
• Commercial
• Residential
• Transportation

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Objectives identified by City Council

• Renewable energy
• Reliability
• Conservation energy efficiency
• Rate stabilization economic vitality
• 2007 Smart Grid proposal

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Greenhouse Gas Inventory
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Inventory by energy source
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Climate Action Plan

• Education, audits, weatherization, etc.
• Municipal PV, solar thermal
• Carbon tax
• Building codes
• Climate Smart loans
• RECO / CECO?
• Community solar?

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Smart Grid and Boulders Climate Action Plan
goals

• Peak demand reduction efficiencies
• 15,000 to 50,000 tons CO2
• 5 to 25 of CAP goal
• Renewable Energy

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The Xcel Energy Boulder Partnership

• Xcel Energy and its partners
• provide financial capital
• City
• provides social capital

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Smart Grid Benefits

• Increase reliability
• Increased choice for customers
• Decreased GHG emissions
• Decreased customer costs

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Smart Grid Concepts

• Efficiency/reliability fiber optics,
  transformers, distribution
• Behavior smart meters, appliance modules, web
  portal
• Automation programmable modules
• Demand response utility control
• Distributed generation and storage

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Issues Customers

• Entire city?
• Residential / business
• Smart meters (or equivalents)
• Appliance modules / thermostats
• Equity low-income, rentals
• Customer applications
• Behavioral changes / automation

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Issues Regulatory

• Rate structure
• Price signals time-of-day, peak demand
• Carbon signals green pricing / power tagging
• More green power / customer choice
• Peaks loads vs. overall demand
• Access to personal / aggregated data
• National carbon tax?

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Issues Renewables

• Distributed generation PV
• Large-scale renewables
• PHEV
• Distributed storage

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Issues Technology

• Future standards / protocols
• Scalable
• Open platform Security

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