Leveraging Utility FTTH for Smart Grid and Community Economic Development

February 28, 2018Jarrod Beeson – NineStar ConnectJeff Richardson – Tantalus Systems

About TantalusTantalus is a technology company that helps utilities make smart decisions.

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Tantalus serves over 140 cooperative & municipal utilities representing millions of endpoints and consumers across North America and the Caribbean.

140+

85+ New customers since 2013

55+TUNet Multi-Application Users

About NineStar Connect

• 18,800 combined customers/members • 14,700 electric meters• 855 miles of line over 3 counties• 243 sq. mile electric service territory• 17.3 meters per mile• Merger between Central Indiana Power and Hancock Telecom

on Jan. 1, 2011

Brief History

• 1895 – Hancock Telecom founded as telephone company• 1936 – Central Indiana Power founded as an electric co-op• 1983 – Both co-ops created the local cable TV franchise that was

sold (regrettably) 10 years later to what eventually became Comcast• 2002 – Hancock began fiber deployment• 2009 – First discussions about merger • 2011 – Co-ops merge with 13,000 combined members• Today –100% of ILEC customers on FTTH

Fiber Creates Overlapping Goals

• Electric co-op -- Focus on deploying smart grid and AMI technology through fiber.

• Telephone co-op -- Focus on selling additional services to new customers.

Products and Services• Power• Voice• Broadband• IP video• Home security• Smart Connect• Water & sewer

Fiber Construction

Fiber construction

• Initial deployments were 100% FTTH• AMI deployment: build fiber to collectors only and homes passed• Fiber islands

AMI Deployment

Collector installation

Tantalus System Benefits

• Outage notification• Quicker response to outages• Power quality monitoring• Automated meter reading• Time of use• Load management• Water integration• Prepaid metering

Electric Territory Preservation

• Electric service territory lost to annexation• Indiana Senate Bill 309 introduced in 2014 to change territory law

Electric Territory Losses

• Over 5,800 acres of service territory since 1983• 4,200 meters• Gross revenue over $16 million annually

Electric Territory Preservation

• Support from Indiana Electric Cooperatives and five IOUs• SB309 passed in 2015

Why is NineStar offering water/sewer services?

• Instances of wells being contaminated• Growing population strains health of private wells

• Instances of no septic systems (connections directly into field tiles)• Instances of failing septic systems• 2/3rds of Hancock County doesn’t have a water/sewer provider

• Lost economic development opportunities• Need for local control and input on new development• Ability to gain density to keep existing electric and communications

services affordable

What service will be offered?

• It will depend on location and need• Some locations will just have water or sewer; some locations will

have both• Anywhere service is offered, fiber optics will be installed• NineStar intends to build ‘smart water & sewer systems’ that will be

efficient & provide members with usage data

How will NineStar offer these services?

• Rome wasn’t built in a day• Over 20 years to build out electric territory• Over 15 years to build out fiber optic network

• Areas most likely to be built first• Where new investments are coming into area• Where there is the greatest need and/or desire for service

All Services Combined

Riley Village84 homes

Tantalus Water AMI Integration

Tantalus Water AMI Integration

Economic Development

• County Materials construction• Sapphire Springs subdivision• Philadelphia subdivision

Economic DevelopmentMaxwell School

WWTPCounty Materials

Economic Development

New Subdivision

Sewer construction project

Planned Developments

Contact Information

Jarrod Beeson Jeff RichardsonDirector of Special Projects Solutions Marketing ManagerNineStar Connect Tantalus2243 E. Main Street 1130 Situs Court, Suite 230Greenfield, IN 46140 Raleigh, NC 27606317-326-3131 919-900-8970jbeeson@ninestarconnect.com jrichardson@tantalus.com