Smart Grid Optimization Starts Here!
Echelon smart meters go one step further to provide power quality sensing capabilities that can better identify technical and non-technical line losses, detect theft and tampering at the meter, and provide localized outage information to help you better manage the distribution network allowing you to better protect your revenue, and maximize the life of your grid assets at the edge.
2. Key Take Aways
What does the optimized grid look like?
How far away from the future are we?
How can you get there?
Importance of standards in grid optimization
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3. Smart Energy Starts With Echelon
35M+ meters, 300,000 buildings, 500 cities
35M+ meters on 300,000 500
the Smart Grid Smart Buildings Smart Cities
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4. A Global Utility Customer Base
Over 35M Meters Deployed and Growing!
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5. What is Grid Optimization?
Smart Solar
Substation
Transformer
Smart Buildings
Grid optimization creates smart energy that reduces your expenses by:
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Improving lifetime of the assets Smart Metering
Balancing loads to get the most efficiency from assets
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Having more preventive maintenance to avoid outages
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Smart Street Lighting
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6. How Do you Get Smart Energy?
Smart Solar
Substation
Transformer
Smart Buildings
Visibility and knowledge at the edge:
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Transformer monitoring
Smart Metering
Phase balancing
Near real-time grid health data from smart meters
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Reliable PLC that can predict failures
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Smart Street Lighting
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7. Imagine a Grid that Detects Failures First
Fix the problem before the outage occurs
Reduce operating expenses in high labor markets
Your assets last longer
Leverage more renewables
Have happier customers
Improve safety
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9. How Far Away Are We?
Smart Grid Optimization Solution
Today Tomorrow Future
Smart Metering Smart Metering + Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
Smart Metering
Billing solutions
Basic PQ values being
collected
Basic rate structures
Little consumer participation
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10. How Far Away Are We?
Smart Grid Optimization Solution
Today Tomorrow Future
Smart Metering Smart Metering + Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
Smart Metering Transformer Monitoring
Billing solutions Automation of LV controls
(first monitoring)
Basic PQ values being
collected Usage of alarms in DMS
Basic rate structures GIS integration
Little consumer participation Basic Outage Management
integration (reconciliation)
Asset monitoring and
management
Reach to customers through
portals and IHD
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More flexible rates
11. How Far Away Are We?
Smart Grid Optimization Solution
Today Tomorrow Future
Smart Metering Smart Metering + Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
Smart Metering Transformer Monitoring Proactive grid management
Billing solutions Automation of LV controls Asset protection and fault
(first monitoring) identification before problem
Basic PQ values being occurs
collected Usage of alarms in DMS
GIS integration Integration of load analysis,
Basic rate structures DMS and distributed grid
Little consumer participation Basic Outage Management management
integration (reconciliation)
Participation of consumers in
Asset monitoring and electricity market buying and
management selling electricity generated
Reach to customers through and/or stored at their premise
portals and IHD
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More flexible rates
12. Getting There
Leveraging the Assets You Already Have Today
Smart Solar
At the Smart Meter:
Substation
Transformer
Upgradeable firmware Smart Buildings
Capture power quality information,
near real-time at the transformer
Rich set of energy and power quality Smart Meters Transformer
elements
Provide data collection for billing and
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power quality at separate intervals
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Smart Meters
Smart Street Lighting
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13. Getting There
Leveraging the Assets You Already Have Today
Smart Solar
Substation
Transformer
Smart Buildings
At the Transformer: Transformer
Control Nodes
Turn into smart transformers by Transformer
adding transformer monitoring
Collect temperature,Transformerand
load
peak load
Smart Street Lighting
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14. Grid Optimization is Possible Today
Leverage your smart metering infrastructure
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Smart Metering Smart Grid Optimization Proactive Grid
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Step 1: Smart Meters are just grid sensors at the edge
Step 2: With simple monitoring, gather vital health information at the
transformer, to see grid optimization benefits
Step 3: With meters or control nodes capable of digesting information,
get near real-time distributed intelligence for a proactive grid to predict
line failures before they occur.
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15. Standards
OSGP includes important grid optimization requirements
Smart meters as a grid sensor
Addresses not only billing, not power quality and all aspects of smart meters and other
grid sensing devices
Turning transformers in to “smart transformers”
Allow data to be requested (and/or digested) by a head-end or a data concentrator
based application
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16. OSGP Backed By Industry Leaders
Optimizing the Grid and Making it a Future Proof Investment
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17. In Conclusion
You can get to grid optimization today:
1. Smart meters can be used as grid sensors
2. Transformers become “smart” with simple monitoring
Standards are essential
OSGP includes key grid optimization requirements – today!
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