1. CityWorks: Electric Reliability & Advanced Meter Fort Collins
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CityWorks: Electric Reliability & Advanced Meter Fort Collins
Pablo Bauleo

2. Electric Grid Basics Customers Fort Collins Utilities Platte River
Power Authority
Customers
Distribution
Transmission
Generation
115 – 230 kV
13.2 kV

3. Outage Impact & Reliability Needs
1960s: Electric clock would be late
1970s: Electronic clock would blink “12:00”
s: Computers would reboot
Point out how accustom we are to have power and how much the economy depends on it
2000s: E-Commerce &
Stock Markets collapse
Northeast blackout of 2003  $6 billon loss

4. Fort Collins Reliability Statistics (1/1/2013 – 12/31/2013)
Number of outages: 91
ASAI: %
How reliable the system is
Average System Availability Index
SAIDI: Goal: or lower (US average: 240)
If all customers had been out of power they would have been in an outage for 9.5 minutes
System Average Interruption Duration Index
CAIDI: Goal: or lower (US average: 160)
Customers that experience a power outage were out an average of 32 minutes
Customer Average Interruption Duration Index

5. Advanced Meter Fort Collins
$36M total cost
Electric: $32M
$16M from Department of Energy grant
Water: $4M
11-year payback from operational savings (e.g., meter reading)
Meter installations started early through Q
Supports CO2 reduction goals

6. Communication Network

7. Early System-Level Results
This heat map shows an aggregation of low voltage alarms from a neighborhood in our Initial Deployment Area

8. From Reactive to Proactive
Zooming in closer revealed the meters that sent the low voltage alarm. Checking in our distribution maps showed a transformer that is likely getting close to its rated capacity. No Customers had to call in!

9. Online Web Portal
fcgov.com/utilities

10. Peak Partners Community-wide electric peak management program
Wi-Fi Thermostat
Cellular eWH controller
Energy Savings (~10%)
Cooling (electric)
Heating (gas)
CO2 reduction
Access “on the go”

11. The Users Grid Advanced Meter Fort Collins will bring residents
Wrap it up with Smart Grid is really about “The users Grid”, w/o users that embrace it, the real potential of Smart Grid will never be realized
Advanced Meter Fort Collins will bring residents
the opportunity to embrace 21st Century technologies.

12. Link to closing video(s)
Smarter Water Smarter Energy