Ward Jewell Mladen Kezunovic Communication Requirements and Integration Options for Smart Grid Deployment Ward Jewell Mladen Kezunovic Wichita State Texas A&M PSerc Research Workshop August 4-7, 2008

DOE’s seven smart grid characteristics: Enabling active participation by consumers Accommodating all generation and storage options Enabling new products, services, and markets Providing the power quality for the range of needs in a digital economy Optimizing asset utilization and operating efficiently Anticipating and responding to system disturbances in a self-healing manner Operating resiliently against physical and cyber attack and natural disasters Represents an order of magnitude increase in communications needs; scada and others are already challenged by today’s data sources.

Communications Infrastructure Conventional telephone, radio, power line carrier Existing wired and wireless internet fiber optic satellite Emerging and future

Research Inventory smart grid applications Assessment of communication needs Existing and emerging communications infrastructure available to the smart grid. End-customer T&D Market communications (demand side management, IPP, wholesale generators, distributed generation) Integration and cyber security Recommendations for staged deployment/integration path