Smart Grid - Stimulus Info

1. Recovery Act
Opportunities for Smart
Grid
Andrew G. Campbell
Advisor to Commissioner Rachelle Chong
California Public Utilities Commission
Smart Grid Symposium
April 21, 2009
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2. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Title XIII – Smart Grid, SEC. 1301. Statement of
Policy on Modernization of Electricity Grid:
It is the policy of the United States to support the
modernization of the Nation's electricity
transmission and distribution system to maintain
a reliable and secure electricity infrastructure
that can meet future demand growth and to
achieve each of the following, which together
characterize a Smart Grid:…(see Appendix)
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3. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009
$4.5 Billion – Smart Grid Research, Development,
Demonstration, and Deployment
For expenses necessary for electricity delivery and energy
reliability activities to modernize the electric grid,
including: demand responsive equipment, enhance
security and reliability of the energy infrastructure,
energy storage research, development, demonstration
and deployment, and facilitate recovery from disruptions
to the energy supply, and for implementation of
programs authorized under title XIII of the Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C.
17381 et seq.)
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4. Smart Grid Funding Breakdown
Smart Grid
Investment
Grants
$3.375 Billion
Other Smart Grid
Initiatives Demonstrations
$615 Million
Smart Grid
($4.5 Billion)
Worker Training
Grid
($100 Million)
Interoperability
Green Jobs
($10 Million) Program
DOE
Transmission &
Demand Program
($80 Million)
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Source: EPRI

5. Smart Grid Investment Grant Program
Overview
Competitive, merit-based solicitation; more than 1,500 applications expected
Covers electric transmission, distribution, and customer-side applications
Deployment of Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) within the transmission system is
a specific program goal
Eligibility and Funding Anticipated Schedule
Activity Date
• $3.375 billion available
Notice of Intent April 16, 2009
• Funding provided for up to 50% of
qualified investments requested by (NOI)
grant applicants
Comments Due May 6, 2009
• Applications expected from eligible
entities such as electric utilities, load
Funding Opportunity [July 17], 2009
serving entities, appliance and
Announcement (FOA)
equipment manufacturers, and IT
vendors
Application Due Dates [July 29, 2009;
• Expected project awards range from
Dec. 2, 2009;
$500,000 to $20,000,000 ($100,000
Mar. 31, 2010]
to $5,000,000 for PMU projects)
All Funds Obligated September 2010
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Source: DOE

6. Smart Grid Demonstrations
Overview
Competitive, merit-based solicitation; several hundred proposals expected
Covers electric transmission, distribution, and customer-side projects at a scale that
can be replicated across the country
Scope includes (1) Regional smart grid demonstrations, (2) Utility-scale energy
storage demonstrations, (3) Grid monitoring demonstrations
Eligibility and Funding Anticipated Schedule
• $615 million available Activity Date
• Applicant’s cost share must be at
Draft Funding Opportunity April 16, 2009
least 50% of the total allowable costs
Notice (FOA)
• Expect applications from all types of
organizations including state and
Comments Due May 6, 2009
local agencies, universities, electric
utilities, equipment manufacturers, Funding Opportunity TBD
and project developers
Announcement (FOA)
• Expect to fund: 8-12 regional
demonstrations, 12-19 energy Application Due Dates TBD
storage projects, and 4-5 grid
monitoring projects; $5m to $60m
All Funds Obligated September 2010
per project 6
Source: DOE

7. Five Technologies to Look for in Smart Grid
Projects
• Integrated communications, connecting components to open
architecture for real-time information and control,
allowing every part of the grid to both ‘talk’
and ‘listen’
• Sensing and measurement technologies,
to support faster and more accurate response
such as remote monitoring, time-of-use pricing
and demand-side management
• Advanced components, to apply the latest research in
superconductivity, storage, power electronics and diagnostics
• Advanced control methods, to monitor essential components,
enabling rapid diagnosis and precise solutions appropriate to
any event
• Improved interfaces and decision support, to amplify human
decision-making, transforming grid operators and managers quite
literally into visionaries when it come to seeing into their systems
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Source: DOE

8. APPENDIX
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9. Statement of Policy on Modernization of
Electricity Grid
1. Increased use of digital information and controls
technology to improve reliability, security, and efficiency
of the electric grid.
2. Dynamic optimization of grid operations and resources,
with full cyber-security.
3. Deployment and integration of distributed resources and
generation, including renewable resources.
4. Development and incorporation of demand response,
demand-side resources, and energy-efficiency
resources.
5. Deployment of `smart' technologies (real-time,
automated, interactive technologies that optimize the
physical operation of appliances and consumer devices)
for metering, communications concerning grid
operations and status, and distribution automation. 9

10. Statement of Policy on Modernization of
Electricity Grid. (Cont.)
6. Integration of `smart' appliances and consumer devices.
7. Deployment and integration of advanced electricity
storage and peak-shaving technologies, including plug-
in electric and hybrid electric vehicles, and thermal-
storage air conditioning.
8. Provision to consumers of timely information and control
options.
9. Development of standards for communication and
interoperability of appliances and equipment connected
to the electric grid, including the infrastructure serving
the grid.
10.Identification and lowering of unreasonable or
unnecessary barriers to adoption of smart grid
technologies, practices, and services.
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