CCET as a Forum to Help Resolve Interoperability Issues

Grid-Interop Stakeholders Coordination PanelNov 11-13, 2008

Atlanta, GAMilton Holloway, Ph.D.Chief Operating Officer

Center for the

Commercialization

Of Electric Technologies

CCET Board Visits Wind Farm near Abilene

Who is CCET?

University

Researchers

Electric Utilities &

Competitive Retailers

High-Tech

Companies

The Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies brings together electric utilities, university researchers and high-tech companies to find technology solutions to challenges facing

the electric power industry

Technology Solutions

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CCET Members

University

Researchers

High-Tech

Companies

3

Electric Utilities &

Competitive Retailers

Electric Utilities

Competitive Retailers

What Are We Doing to Promote Smart Grid?

• Projects for Smart Substations and Transmission Management

• Projects for Smart Distribution

• Projects that Integrate DG

Synchronized Sampling and Phasor Development

Description

Working with DoE, EPRI, and ERCOT the CCET companies and university researchers are demonstrating these technologies at substations and within the ERCOT system to allow better operator control, blackout prevention and service restoration, maintain reliability standards, and integrate wind energy. The technology provides much improved operator situational awareness over existing SCADA systems.

CCET Participants

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Substations:- Circuit Breaker Monitor (CBM)- CBM analysis (CBMA)- DFR analysis (DFRA)- DPR analysis (DPRA)- Integrated substation analysis

Test Equipment:- Certification and calibration lab- Field test equipment for GPS-enabled IEDs

RTDMS Deployment and Phasor Roadmap Development

Demand Response Pilot

Description

CCET is leading a Demand Response program in Dallas and Houston during the summer and fall of 2008. The pilot takes advantage of early deployment of advanced metering/AMI systems in Houston & Dallas to test DR in restructured market and consumer acceptance of various control strategies (thermostats, water heaters and pool pumps) by Direct Energy, Reliant and TXU Energy.

CCET Participants

TDUs

REPs

Vendors

In cooperation with:

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Demand Response Pilot

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Customer Self-Service

Utili ty A

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Portal

WaterHeater

LV 120V

Meter Relay

BPLRepeater

BPLRepeater

ZigbeeZigbee

Compressor

PoolPump

RF(Radio

Frequency)

RF(Radio

Frequency)

SmartThermostat

BPL Network Architecture on CNP System

Source: CenterPoint Energy.

DG Project Coming Soon

• Involves new planned solar community

• Potentially involves most of our members

• Stay tuned

What Are We Doing About Interoperability?

• Not nearly enough, but we’re working on it

CIM Standards Task Force

Description

I. Developed an online data base of IEC/UCA Standards references and a collection of CIM models

2. Evaluated a proposed approach to begin CIM-like standards development for the application layer interface with the HAN

3. Promoting CIM for Distribution that supports CIM for Transmission adopted by ERCOT

4. Task Force to Participate in New Project Design

CCET Participants

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PUCT Tackling the Problem of Interoperability at the

Meter/HAN Interface Description

Texas PUC is working the process of defining the capacities required for enabling DR by TDSPs and solving the problem of capacity to support DR and assignment of responsibility among market participants and stakeholders

PROJECT NO. 31418

RULEMAKING RELATED TO ADVANCED METERING

Project 4. AMIT HAN Project: Task 125

1. List of Use Cases

A1 – Load Control Message

A2 – Price Signal Message

A3 – Numerical and Text Message

A4 – Ping the AMS Meter

A5 – HAN Device requests AMS Meter data

A6 –Messages sent from HAN Device

CCET Member Individual Participation at PUCT

Workshop

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What Are We Doing About Interoperability?

• We’re working on it because the policies of Advanced Meters/AMI and RPS requires a solution– The commitment to restructured market– Legislatively driven invitation to IOUs to invest in

advanced meters and AMI– Legislatively driven RPS is focusing attention on wind

integration– These large investments will drive attention to the

interoperability challenge

• THE END FOR NOW

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