Transcript SAIDI: Goal: 30.00 or lower (US average: 240)

CityWorks: Electric Reliability & Advanced Meter Fort Collins
5-24-15
Pablo Bauleo
Electric Grid Basics
115 – 230 kV
13.2 kV
Customers
Generation
Transmission
Platte River
Power Authority
Distribution
Fort Collins
Utilities
Outage Impact &
Reliability Needs
1960s: Electric clock would
be late
1970s: Electronic clock would blink “12:00”
1980-90s: Computers
would reboot
2000s: E-Commerce &
Stock Markets collapse
Northeast blackout of 2003  $6 billon loss
Fort Collins Reliability Statistics
(1/1/2013 – 12/31/2013)
Number of outages: 91
ASAI: 99.9982%
• How reliable the system is
• Average System Availability Index
SAIDI: Goal: 30.00 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: 45.00 or lower (US average: 160)
• Customers that experience a power outage were out an average of
32 minutes
• Customer Average Interruption Duration Index
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
2012 through Q4 2013.
Supports CO2 reduction goals
Communication Network
Early System-Level Results
This heat map shows
an aggregation of low
voltage alarms from a
neighborhood in our
Initial Deployment
Area
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!
Online Web Portal
fcgov.com/utilities
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”
The Users Grid
Advanced Meter Fort Collins will bring residents
the opportunity to embrace 21st Century technologies.
Link to closing video(s)
Smarter Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cPW7WV6uRg
Smarter Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB26q2p38Xc