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Management of the Future Grid

Management of the Future Grid. Bevon Flansburg Cristen McLean Annie Brandjord Stephanie Hyde Megan Sparks. Managing Our Energy Future. Technologies Uses Scalability Future. What is the Smart Grid?. “…a web-enabled digitally controlled, intelligent delivery system” Grid decisions are…

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Management of the Future Grid

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  1. Management of the Future Grid Bevon Flansburg Cristen McLean Annie Brandjord Stephanie Hyde Megan Sparks

  2. Managing Our Energy Future • Technologies • Uses • Scalability • Future

  3. What is the Smart Grid? • “…a web-enabled digitally controlled, intelligent delivery system” • Grid decisions are… Too MANY Too QUICK …for human management

  4. The Internet is Our Friend • Ability to Go Green • Real time and bidirectional • Quick and efficient response to disturbances

  5. Being Green It’s not so hard after all! Smart Grid • Increases efficiency • Saving up to 46-117 billion dollars • Reduces electricity lost from 9% to 2% • Rewards individuals for conservation • Ability to integrate: • small scale generation • intermittent renewables

  6. Real Time Monitoring • Ability to assess power line volume • Information and power exchange between customer and supply • Reduced vulnerability to problems/threats • Data acquisition and transfer for self healing

  7. Self-Healing • Digital Engineering Design That Enables: • Isolation/restoration of problems • Virtually no human involvement • Continuous assessment of problems Predict, Detect, Respond, Resolve

  8. Regulation • Net metering • Smart metering • Price Signaling • Curtailment

  9. Net Metering • Receiving credit for surplus energy fed back into the grid. • Plugs in small scale energy generation into the grid. • Pre-cursor to the SmartGrid

  10. Smart Metering • Digital records of power usage. • Automated heating/cooling/lighting. • Demand response programs. • Annual power demand reduction by… • 52-106 billion kWh • saving $3-7 billion / yr. • Meter prices will drop 50% in the next 3 years.

  11. Electricity Usage Time Price Signaling Permits consumers to take overall grid demand (reflected in fluctuating prices) into consideration before and during energy usage.

  12. Curtailment The utility company will temporarily adjust your energy use to reduce demands on the grid.

  13. GoodWatts Energy Management System • Allows both the homeowner and the utility to send commands to the home. • Benefits: • Remote management • Homeowners manage their own energy consumption. • Continuous feedback to the homeowner.

  14. The Smart Grid and the West Coast • Bonneville Power Administration’s Wide Area Measurement System. • California’s Dynamic Power Pricing. • Ashland municipal utility’s Power Shift program.

  15. Personal Energy Monitors • Smart energy industry: • $15 billion annually • Pacific NW: $2 billion share • Smart energy: application of digital information technology to optimize power: • Generation • Delivery • End use • Rewards: • Energy conservation during peak demand • Purchasing “smart” technology appliances

  16. Microgrids • Separate from larger grid • Reduced line losses (smaller area) • AC v. DC power

  17. Wide Area Management Systems (WAMS) • Enabling Technology - advanced sensors • New tech. breakthroughs • 2001-present : Consortium for Electric Infrastructure to Support a Digital Society – “Self-Healing Grid”

  18. Challenges • BAU • No stable business climate • Performance-based ratemaking • Limited presence of smart technologies in public facilities

  19. Present 2010 2020 2030 The Future 2010 • Customer gateway for next generation smart meter – 2-way communication • Intelligent homes and appliances • Advanced conductors • Regional plans for modernization

  20. Present 2010 2020 2030 The Future 2020 • Improved energy management • Automatic corrections • High-Tech generators, transformers, cables • Long distance superconducting transmission cables

  21. Present 2010 2020 2030 The Future 2030 • Reliable, secure, digital-grade power for anyone • Affordable, pollution-free, low-carbon producing • Completion/continuation of superconducting framework

  22. How we are making the future possible!

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