1. Management of the Future Grid Bevon Flansburg Cristen McLean Annie Brandjord Stephanie Hyde Megan Sparks

2. Managing Our Energy Future Technologies Uses Scalability Future

3. What is the Smart Grid? “…a web-enabled digitally controlled, intelligent delivery system” Grid decisions are… Too MANY Too QUICK …for human management

4. The Internet is Our Friend Ability to Go Green Real time and bidirectional Quick and efficient response to disturbances

5. Being Green Smart Grid – Increases efficiency Saving up to 46-117 billion dollars Reduces electricity lost from 9% to 2% – Rewards individuals for conservation – Ability to integrate: small scale generation intermittent renewables It’s not so hard after all!

6. Real Time Monitoring Ability to assess power line volume Information and power exchange between customer and supply Reduced vulnerability to problems/threats – Data acquisition and transfer for self healing

7. Self-Healing Digital Engineering Design That Enables: – Isolation/restoration of problems – Virtually no human involvement – Continuous assessment of problems Predict, Detect, Respond, Resolve

8. Regulation Net metering Smart metering Price Signaling Curtailment

9. Net Metering Receiving credit for surplus energy fed back into the grid. Plugs in small scale energy generation into the grid. Pre-cursor to the SmartGrid

10. Smart Metering Digital records of power usage. Automated heating/cooling/lighting. Demand response programs. Annual power demand reduction by… – 52-106 billion kWh – saving $3-7 billion / yr. Meter prices will drop 50% in the next 3 years.

11. Price Signaling Permits consumers to take overall grid demand (reflected in fluctuating prices) into consideration before and during energy usage. Electricity Usage Time

12. Curtailment The utility company will temporarily adjust your energy use to reduce demands on the grid.

13. GoodWatts Energy Management System Allows both the homeowner and the utility to send commands to the home. Benefits: – Remote management – Homeowners manage their own energy consumption. – Continuous feedback to the homeowner.

14. The Smart Grid and the West Coast Bonneville Power Administration’s Wide Area Measurement System. California’s Dynamic Power Pricing. Ashland municipal utility’s Power Shift program.

15. Personal Energy Monitors Smart energy industry: – $15 billion annually – Pacific NW: $2 billion share Smart energy: application of digital information technology to optimize power: – Generation – Delivery – End use Rewards: – Energy conservation during peak demand – Purchasing “smart” technology appliances

16. Microgrids Separate from larger grid Reduced line losses (smaller area) AC v. DC power

17. Wide Area Management Systems (WAMS) Enabling Technology - advanced sensors New tech. breakthroughs 2001-present : Consortium for Electric Infrastructure to Support a Digital Society – “Self-Healing Grid”

18. Challenges BAU No stable business climate Performance-based ratemaking Limited presence of smart technologies in public facilities

19. 2010 Customer gateway for next generation smart meter – 2-way communication Intelligent homes and appliances Advanced conductors Regional plans for modernization Present 2010 2020 2030 The Future

20. 2020 Improved energy management Automatic corrections High-Tech generators, transformers, cables Long distance superconducting transmission cables Present 2010 2020 2030 The Future

21. 2030 Reliable, secure, digital-grade power for anyone Affordable, pollution-free, low-carbon producing Completion/continuation of superconducting framework Present 2010 2020 2030 The Future

22. How we are making the future possible!