ANALYTICS: BRINGING VALUE TO THE UTILITIES IN MITIGATING ENERGY LOSSES José-Manuel LOPEZ Istanbul, May 9, 2014
UTILITIES OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Leverage My AMI Investment Improve Power Reliability & Sustain Quality Renewables & Distributed Generation Growth Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
DATA INPUTS AND CLOSED LOOP ANALYTICS AMI & MDM SCADA Weather / Other 3 rd Party Sources GIS Billing & Work Management Reports Intelligence & Performance Dashboards Scenarios & Prediction Smart Grid Analytics Data Warehouse
ITRON ANALYTICS Smart Grid Analytics Revenue Protection Power Quality Transformer Load Mgmt DER Forecasting Load Research Energy Efficiency & DR Dynamic Profiling Financial Analytics AMI Operations Water & Gas Analytics District Metering Revenue Protection Event Analysis Conservation Customer Service Customer Portal Distribution System Monitoring Consulting & Analysis Advanced AMI Business Case Rate and Program Design Measurement and Evaluation Distributed Energy Resources
CURRENT PRODUCTS »Itron Analytics Power Quality Analytics Energy Diversion Detection Transformer Load Management
ANALYTIC BUILDING BLOCKS »Analytic Events combine meter exceptions, measurements, and/or other analytic events into useful objects Single “Meter Removal Event” Begin Saturday 11:40am, duration 1hr 32 minutes Power Down Power Up Removal Power Up Power Down11:40am 1:12pm Time Meter Removal
ANALYTIC BUILDING BLOCKS »Combine analytic events and readings for more insight kWh Voltage Reduced Usage Removal Bypass Installed Bypass Removed Time Meter Bypass Event
ENERGY DIVERSION DETECTION
IN THE U.S, ENERGY THEFT ACCOUNTS FOR $6 BILLION ANNUALLY
ENERGY DIVERSION DETECTION »Tamper reporting »Energy balance »Voltage/energy relationships »Work management/field investigation application interfaces Itron Analytics
TAMPER ANALYSIS »Energy Diversion Detection Priority Service Points Tamper Events Locations Device Alerts Date Range Measurements
TAMPER ANALYSIS »Energy Diversion Detection Monitor suspects or initiate field investigation
SERVICE POINT COMPARISON »Compare energy/voltage between any two service points, or same over time
ENERGY BALANCE »Secondary Energy Balancing Compare transformer measured energy to service points »Primary Energy Balancing Compare upstream energy to downstream service points »Report by magnitude or percent difference Energy Diversion Detection
VOLTAGE/ENERGY PATTERNS »Detect anomalies in voltage/energy relationships Energy Diversion Detection
APPLICATION BENEFITS »Reduce energy delivery costs Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) opportunities Energy theft »Increase power reliability and quality for utility customers Transformers at risk, proactively replace Outage scale, duration, and metrics Monitor low voltage conditions to take corrective action »Support growth in distributed resources Actively monitor voltage across your network, forecast energy »Expand and improve effectiveness of energy efficiency programs Identify inefficient users for targeted programs
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