1. Aggregating Small Loads to provide Ancillary Services
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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2. 21,000 MW of Residential Summer Peak Load
Residential Load is Almost Half of ERCOT Total Load at Peak.
21,000 MW of Residential Summer Peak Load
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Source: ERCOT 2010 State of the Market Report
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3. Average kW Use/HVAC Unit
Aggregating Residential Load Controls Significant Demand During Peak Periods.
Mean: 2.99 kW Std Dev: 1.99 kW
No. HVAC Hourly Reads
Average kW Use/HVAC Unit
Avg. kW
Time of Day (PM)
Based on HVAC units at 397 homes monitored across three TX utilities from 3PM to 7PM, June through September 2011.
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4. Next Generation DR Controls Over Half of the Load at the Home.
3.06 Mean kW/Gateway
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No. of Hourly Gateway Reads
Based on 397 Consert gateways located within three TX utilities from 3PM to 7PM, June through September Chart data is average hourly kW
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5. THE VIRTUAL PEAK PLANT™ PROCESS.1.
Load Management/Measurement Devices Are Installed
Communicating meter with Consert gateway
Load control device for water heater, EV, and other loads
Thermostat for HVAC control 4.
Data Center
Built on IBM software
platforms, including
DB2, WebSphere and
WebSphereMQ. Pass
data in HHF format. 3.
Public Wireless Network
3G & 4G wireless technology provides real-time communication between consumers and utilities. 5. 2.
Consert’s Virtual Peak Plant
Allows the utility to monitor, measure,
and control disaggregated loads over
a real-time, standards-based IP network.
Consumers create
energy use profiles
Program, monitor and adjust household usage through web portal.
SMART HOME
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6. CUSTOMER FOCUSED SOLUTION. Up to 20% Savings on energy efficiency
Work within boundaries defined by the customer
Opt out at any time
Free Home Energy Management System
Anytime, anywhere access
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7. MEASUREMENT & DEVICE CONTROL
INSTALL MEASUREMENT AND DEVICE CONTROL.
For Next Generation DR
POOL PUMP
With the Consert solution 40% to 60% of residential home energy consumption is under control and manageable.
SMART HOME
MEASUREMENT & DEVICE CONTROL
Consert gives utilities and consumers a simple and reliable way to reduce energy consumption – mostly by eliminating loads that would have been otherwise wasted through traditional means. By simply being able to manage their own personal usage, a typical residence equipped with Consert’s Home Area Network will lower its energy usage 15-20%, while an average business will save 8% or more. Multiplied by hundreds or thousands of consumers, the result is actionable load resources for the participating utility. Installed capital expenditure on a per kilowatt basis is very competitive with traditional supply-side options. Plus, Consert enables utilities to implement time-of-use or other alternative pricing programs, as well as track and monetize load reductions as renewable energy and carbon credits, producing potential future revenue streams. Among the ways Consert allows utilities to significantly reduce operating costs is by performing AMI/AMR functions more efficiently, handling outage and tamper detection, reducing line loss and managing advanced demand management events.
WATER HEATER
HVAC
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8. INSTALL A SMART METER WITH THE CONSERT GATEWAY
Smart Energy Gateway
Zigbee enabled for HAN communications
3G or 4G modem for cellular public network communications
Leverage legacy meter MV90 file for billing
Sends 15 minute use data to utility in near real time
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9. INSTALL A SMART ZIGBEE ENABLED THERMOSTAT.
Programmable thermostat controls the HVAC per home owner’s preferred profile and monitors HVAC energy usage in real time
The thermostat communicates with the Consert gateway over the standardized Zigbee home area network (HAN)
Home owners would set up their profiles and strategies
Home owners can opt out at any time
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10. CUSTOMERS and Next Generation DR with Consert.
“I like the way the whole program operates.”
Data Source:
High-Level Process Evaluation for DM Pilot Project
Post Summer Curtailment Participant Study Results
LCRA and Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative | October 2011
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11. CUSTOMERS and Next Generation DR with Consert.
“I feel like I want to proactively save money and save energy.”
Data Source:
High-Level Process Evaluation for DM Pilot Project
Post Summer Curtailment Participant Study Results
LCRA and Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative | October 2011
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12. CUSTOMERS and Next Generation DR with Consert.
“I’m able to better manage the temperature.”
Data Source:
High-Level Process Evaluation for DM Pilot Project
Post Summer Curtailment Participant Study Results
LCRA and Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative | October 2011
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13. CUSTOMERS and Next Generation DR with Consert.
Data Source:
High-Level Process Evaluation for DM Pilot Project
Post Summer Curtailment Participant Study Results
LCRA and Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative | October 2011
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14. “ “ Utility Has Complete Control of the CLR unit.
Utilities have access to load management, and can see real-time power availability at any time.
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Utility Control Center
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15. Aggregated Residential DR is a Reliable Load Resource.
Pct. of Target Load
Facts
Event Participants
Outside Temp
Date
60% 75
102
8/3/11
80%
205
8/4/11
100% 64
100
6/14/11
Event Duration (in 5 min. increments)
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16. Most Customers Choose Not to Opt Out.
Event Details
Participants
205
Date
8/4/11
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18. Current Efforts in ERCOT
Scope of Pilots and POCs
LCRA
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative: peak at ~212 meters/participants; 569 kW peak Power Available
ICCP Telemetry
10 Second Device Data
Pedernales Electric Cooperative: ~100 meters/participants; 276kW peak Power Available
Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative: under way with 200 installs planned
CPS Energy
Pilot: 89 meters/participants; 164 kW peak Power Available 2010 – 2011
Early Commercial Deployment: 500 installations ~1 MW peak power
Full Deployment: 140,000 meters/participants; 250 MW peak Power Available
Implementing ICCP Telemetry
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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19. Current Efforts in ERCOT
Proposed Uses for Consert Technology with MPs
Reduced kWh consumption / energy efficiency of 10% - 20%
Reduced 4 CP and TCOS
Real Time MCP events for negative load/wholesale energy
Load Resources
Pre-POC/CLR: EILS
Post-POC/CLR: Non-Spin, Responsive Reserve, and eventually Regulation
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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20. Aggregated Load as a CLR
Premise
Consert believes it can provide value added Load Management Services into the ERCOT market by aggregating residential and small commercial load, and providing the load resource telemetry to ERCOT
Consert is looking to get approved under the CURRENT Nodal Controllable Load Resource (CLR) Protocol and Operating Guidelines
Consert plans to run a Proof of Concept (POC) with ERCOT emulating a CLR test plan
History
Consert has numerous pilots underway with ERCOT Munis/Coops for 6+ months
Consert has been working with ERCOT to determine a path forward and any showstopper issues in order to perform a CLR POC Test
Consert recognizes that potential future ERCOT protocol changes could optimize the tool’s use in the ERCOT market, but for now no ERCOT PRRs are planned
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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21. Aggregated Load as a CLR
In discussions with ERCOT staff, the following are baseline criteria for the Consert solution in the ERCOT Controllable Load Resource (CLR) market as defined by ERCOT protocols
No Under Frequency Relay (UFR) is required
Resource will have primary frequency response capability that automatically responds to frequency changes similar to a generator governor
Aggregation of Load must be at a transmission physical load point as defined in the ERCOT network model
Aggregated load must be modeled to 1, and only 1, transmission physical load point
No resource rollover would be possible for Consert solution at this time due to network model limitations
Aggregated load must be at least 100kW to offer into the ERCOT Ancillary Service CLR markets and qualify under the Nodal CLR test plan
Aggregated load must follow ICCP operating guidelines and performance criteria
Aggregated load must be base lined for M&V analysis and settlements
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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22. Topics to Address Registration (RARF) AS Markets under consideration
Day Ahead and Real Time (MMS, COPs, LFC, EMS)
Telemetry (ICCP)
Primary Frequency Response
Measurement and Verification
Other Considerations
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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23. Summary
Consert currently plans to conduct its Proof of Concept with ERCOT and MPs in late 2011 / early 2012
Data from POC will be provided to ERCOT for independent evaluation
ERCOT has committed in providing recommendations for improvements in the ERCOT markets
ERCOT has committed in updated processes and procedures for small load resources
Again, we are not planning to submit any changes to the ERCOT protocols or operating guides at this time
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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24. Discussion Challenges/Barriers Next Steps and Action Items
Our system is under dual control - the consumer is able to better control and understand his own use of electric power and, concurrently, may grant the serving utility as much control as he wishes (and change it as often as he wishes) to help the utility deal with peak generation or distribution events, outages, or an economic event in which the spot market price of power is much higher than the contracted  price at which the utility purchases power.
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