Smart Grid City: A blueprint for a connected, intelligent grid community

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Smart Grid CityA blueprint for a connected,
intelligent grid community

• Dennis Stephens
• Director, Utility Innovations and Smart Grid
  Investments
• OSI Users Conference
• September, 23 2008

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Drivers 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

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The 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

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Xcel 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

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• Accenture
• Current Group
• GridPoint
• OSI Soft
• Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
• Ventyx
• Xcel Energy
• imagine. inspire. innovate.

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SmartGridCity - 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

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Boulders 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

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SmartGridCity

• 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

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Added 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
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We 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

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Learn more

• xcelenergy.com/smartgrid