Next Steps Dr. Mladen Kezunovic (TAMU) Dr. Dean Schneider (TCAT) Josh Gould (ARPA-E)

1. Next StepsDr. Mladen Kezunovic (TAMU) Dr. Dean Schneider (TCAT) Josh Gould (ARPA-E)

2. RATC – What’s Next? What you have seen today is the genesis of a new way of thinking about how to address grid contingencies So, what is the plan to get the solution into the hands of the users?

3. RATC – What’s Next? RATC User Forums are the first step in commercializing the technology: making it available to the utilities and system component vendors The RATC Team has developed a process for making the domain software components available on a open-source basis: the payoff in the ARPA-E investment

4. RATC – What’s Next? • The RATC Value Proposition • Improves deliverability of reserves, enabling cheaper re-dispatch solutions • Avoidance of expensive transmission bottlenecks • SAVINGS: >2% • Past work by Hedman and Oren has shown >3%

5. RATC – What’s Next? • The RATC Value Proposition • Load recovery: • Reconfiguration of grid topology in real time to recover loads dropped through fault or renewable intermittency • RATC can also prevent load shedding that would otherwise occur • BENEFIT: >5% load recovery

6. RATC – What’s Next? • The RATC Value Proposition • Deferral of investments: topology reconfiguration optimization may delay need for infrastructure investment • Deferral of additional transmission • Deferral of required local generation • SAVINGS: >2-5% • Related findings: ISONEsaves $50M/yr by considering economics plus reliability for transmission maintenance scheduling (ISONE Study, 2009)

7. RATC – What’s Next? • The RATC Product • Set of software modules • Software contains algorithms for providing optimization of grid topology • Predictive action for expected events • Corrective action for day and hour-ahead events • Corrective action for real-time response to contingency events and renewable intermittency • Open source code base for several modules

8. RATC – What’s Next? • The RATC Product • Algorithm Modules (The open source components): • Optimization algorithms • Substation algorithms • APIs for Data Concentrator • Decision Support/Control • Commercial Optimization Package • CPLEX • Commercial Power System Analysis Packages

9. RATC – What’s Next? • How does RATC fit in?

10. RATC – What’s Next? • The RATC Product • Validation of the Value Proposition • Test Scenarios • N-m Contingencies Event • Renewable Intermittencies (2 cases) • More “real-life” scenarios (TVA, others?)

11. Technology to Market • T2M planning and implementation led by Texas Center for Applied Technology • RATC Project Functions: • Technology to Market Planning (Open Source distribution) • Intellectual Property Planning • RATC User Forums

12. Technology to Market • The RATC Team has developed a T2M Plan • User forums to promote the RATC concept and capture prospective users’ feedback • Consortium arrangement to provide open source infrastructure and management support • Recruitment of developers supported by their companies to continue management and development of the open source toolset

13. Technology to Market • Validation of the Value Proposition claims • User inputs and validation cases • Development of OS ecosystem – what makes for successful OS deployment? • OS Workshop • Consortium development for OS support • Recruitment of OS developers to continue development beyond ARPA-E project termination

14. T2M Timeline

15. T2M Timeline

16. RATC – What’s Next? You Tell Us!