1. Challenges Faced by Electrical Utilities
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14
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Doug Sward
Challenges Faced by Electrical Utilities
Doug Sward
ISACC
Geneva, July 2009 1 1

2. Challenges Faced by Electrical Utilities
Smart meter deployment
Installation of smart meters
Not just passive meters
Monitoring of consumption / cost by homeowners
Pro-active management of consumption by grid management authority
Alternative methods of power generation
Numerous small generators
Biomass, Wind, Solar (including domestic solar panels)
Bidirectional electrical grid
Real time fault isolation - Greatly increased level of complexity
Grid Security
Geneva, July 2009

3. Management And Control Of The Electrical Grid
All these new requirements translate into the need for
end-to-end monitoring and control of the electrical grid all the way to the periphery of the distribution network
This can be achieved using an all-IP wide area telecommunication network
This network needs to have wide reach and sufficient capacity – including many remote areas where other telecom facilities are not available
Geneva, July 2009

4. First Come First Serve Licensing
The Canadian Solution
First Come First Serve Licensing
Relaxed required antenna directivity for the MHz block
This will allow deployment in star topology (ptmp)
Broadband access technology in TDD mode envisioned
The relaxed parameters apply only to systems for management of electricity
Other fixed ptp systems still able to use the band using existing parameters
New ptmp systems need to protect existing fixed systems
Geneva, July 2009

5. Next Steps/Actions
New technical standards including these relaxed technical parameters were published June 20, 2009
Trials are being set-up by electrical utilities to validate the integration of wireless telecommunication network with the grid management applications
Geneva, July 2009