Overview of SGIP Member Ameren Illinois' Smart Grid Test Bed

Accelerating Grid Modernization
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Overview and Status of SGIP Member
Ameren Illinois’ Smart Grid Test Bed
January 27, 2015

WELCOME
Stuart McCafferty
Vice President of Technical Operations
SGIP Project Management Office (PMO)
January 27, 2015 Overview of Ameren Illinois’ Smart Grid Test Bed

Advancing grid modernization through standards innovation, gap
filling, interface definitions, and the creation of test frameworks.
Multi-stakeholder community with tight coupling to Standards
Setting Organizations (SSOs).
Disciplined, time-tested processes.
Accelerating Smart Grid Interoperability
The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) is a consortium
that securely accelerates and advances Grid Modernization
through interoperability and the leadership talents of its
members. SGIP prioritizes topics and issues set by the utilities,
independent power producers and industry members to
solution and drives innovation of Grid Modernization.

Agenda
• Welcome – Stuart McCafferty, SGIP
• Main Presentation – Rodney Hilburn, Ameren
Illinois
• Questions & Answers
• Closing Reminders – Stuart McCafferty
This meeting, and all SGIP activities, are governed by SGIP By-laws and policies - Intellectual Property Rights Policy and Antitrust Policy.

TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS
CENTER
Rod Hilburn, Ameren Illinois
Manager – Technology Applications Center

Technology Applications Center -
Background
On October 26, 2011, the Energy Infrastructure & Modernization Action (EIMA) was
enacted which comprised a component requiring Ameren Illinois to construct or
designate a Smart Grid Testing Infrastructure.
Technology Applications Center Services
• Ameren Illinois will provide testing infrastructure resources and services from
which companies will be allowed to test programs, technologies, business models
and other Smart Grid-related activities while connected to the grid.
Requirements from SB 1652 for Technology Applications Center
• Provide companies with open unbiased opportunities for testing programs,
technologies, business models, and other Smart Grid-related activities while
connected to the grid.
• Provide companies with opportunities to test and showcase Smart Grid
technologies and services, especially those likely to support the economic
development goals of the State of Illinois.
• Facility will include a live MISO (Midwest Independent System Operator) signal to
provide testing capabilities of new utility scale applications associated with
distributed wind and solar resources.

Background
Technology Applications Center Development
• Design team review of legislative language as well as visits to Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), S&C Electric,
University of Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and American Electric Power (AEP)
determined that Ameren Illinois should construct or designate two locations
to satisfy the laws requirements.
Technology Applications Center Construction
• Constructed 69/12kV, 10.5 MVA substation.
• Constructed two distribution circuits
– One to serve the Technology Applications Center site
– One to serve live customers
• Constructed a substation control building to service the substation as well as
a Home Area Network kitchen to test end use consumer devices.
• Established a fiber optic communications link with UIUC smart grid test bed.

Capabilities
• Energize equipment/sensors at voltage levels up to and including 69,000 volts
• (Champaign) 12,000 volts (Decatur) to evaluate devices functional characteristics.
• Data capture of electrical characteristics utilizing SEL-351A (PMU) and analysis of
data via SynchoWave Visualization and Analysis software.
• Access to SCADA and Relay control functionality to enable evaluation, monitoring,
and controls of energized SG devices.
• Provide a testing platform to allow for Cyber-Security testing, DNP3, ModBus, and
• SCADA communications architectures commonly used by Utilities.
• Test and evaluate Home Area Network (HAN) technologies.
• Perform energized testing of AIU identified equipment for acceptability prior to
wide scale adoption.
• Communications infrastructure necessary to receive live MISO signals.
• Collaboration with UIUC on testing & validation procedures, as well as test plan
development

DOE Cyber Security Projects
Research grants have been co-awarded under the FOA opportunities by the DOE for
“Innovation for Increasing Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems” at the TAC.
• (SDN) – Software-Defined Networking
SDN allows a programmatic change control platform, which allows the entire network to be
managed as a single asset, simplifies the understanding of the network, and enables continuous
monitoring in more detail.
• (PBCONF) – Secure Policy-Based Configuration Framework
An extensible, policy-based configuration framework to support the secure configuration and
remote access of modern and legacy devices from a variety of vendors. The open-source
framework will combine a policy engine with a translation engine to address the interoperability
challenges of various remote access control methods and provide utilities with a single,
organization-wide view of the security configuration for their power delivery devices.
• (ARMORE) - Applied Resiliency for More Trustworthy Grid Operation
An open-source system that can perform inspection of network packets and alarm on
communication that does not comply with the specified ARMORE policy. ARMORE will be able to
be configured to take action to block network traffic based on deep inspection of common
substation communications protocols, such as DNP3.
• (CODEF) - Collaborative Defense of T&D Protection and Control Devices Against Cyber Attacks
This project will advance the state of the art for cyber defense methods for transmission and
distribution grid protection and control devices by developing and demonstrating a distributed
security domain layer that enables transmission and protection devices to collaboratively defend
against cyber-attacks in an IEC 61850 environment.

TAC information
https://www.ameren.com/illinois/map/tac

Technology Applications Center
Benefits
• Fulfill the Act’s intent to facilitate the development of
new Smart Grid technologies for promotion of new
smart grid related products.
• Provides Ameren Illinois with infrastructure and
resources to test, document and analyze new
distribution equipment and services prior to wide scale
adoption of these devices across Ameren Illinois
service territory.
• Establishes opportunity for Ameren Illinois & University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to jointly research Smart
Grid-related technologies through respective test beds.

QUESTIONS?
Rod Hilburn
Managing Supervisor – Technology Applications Center
rhilburn@ameren.com
January 27,
2015
Overview of Ameren Illinois’ Smart Grid Test Bed

SGIP Reminders
• TOMORROW:
“Ask the Experts” on
ITU-T
• NEXT WEEK at
DistribuTECH in San
Diego
• March 5: ENGAGE2015
in Phoenix. Cybersecurity and OpenFMB
• Webinars & Publications on SGIP.org under “Information
Knowledge Base”
• Stay in Touch
– Twitter: @SGIPNews
– Join our LinkedIn Group
– Sign up for SGIP Newsletter, The Conductor

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION
A FOLLOW-UP EMAIL WILL BE SENT WITH LINK TO
RECORDING AND SUPPORTING MATERIALS
January 27,
2015
Overview of Ameren Illinois’ Smart Grid Test Bed

Overview of SGIP Member Ameren Illinois' Smart Grid Test Bed

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