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SmartGridIreland (SGI)
Paddy Turnbull
Chairman of Smart Grid Ireland
Growth Strategy Leader
GE Energy - Digital Energy
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SmartGridIreland (SGI)
SmartGridIreland (SGI) - is a network of
organisations based in or operating out of
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
seeking to jointly exploit the benefits and new
opportunities in the smart grid sector regionally,
nationally and internationally.
Member organisations are drawn from industry,
research bodies, universities and government
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SGI Strategic Themes
Advocacy
New Business
Facilitation
Public / Private
Partnerships
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Cleaner, Smarter, More Efficient
Shaping a Low Carbon Future
- A set of Complex Challenges
Paddy Turnbull
GE Energy
GE leadership in Smart Grids
Continental Automated
Buildings Association
GE roles Board Member
Mission: To advance intelligent home
and intelligent building technologies.
Smart Grid
Canada
GE role: Founding Member
Mission: To drive innovation and
leadership to advance Canada’s Smart Grid
infrastructure by engaging stakeholders from
multiple industries.
Smart Grid GB
Smart Grid Ireland
GE role: Founding member
Mission: to provide an open forum to , share
GE role: Chair
Mission: To help develop and
ideas & information and develop thinking on how
smart grid can be achieved
leverage off the opportunities
emerging from the global Smart Grids
Smart Energy
Demand
GE role: BoardCoalition
Member
Demand Response and
Smart Grid Coalition
Mission: To promote the active
GE role: Board Member
Mission: To educate and provide
information to policymakers, utilities, the
media, the financial community and
stakeholders on how demand response and
smart grid technologies such as smart
meters can help modernize our electricity
system and provide customers with new
information and options for managing their
electricity use.
Utilities Telecom Council
GE role: Committee Member
Mission: To create a favorable
business, regulatory, and technological
environment for companies that own,
manage, or provide critical
telecommunications systems in support
of their core business.
Smart Meter Manuf
Assoc of America
GE role: Board Member
Mission: To educate legislators, regulators,
media and other stakeholders about the
benefits of smart meters and to advocate for
federal and state policies that support their
deployment within an overall utility smart grid
program.
Friends of the
Super Grid
GE role: Board Member
Mission: To promote and influence
Transatlantic
Business Dialogue the policy and regulatory framework
required to enable large-scale
GE role: Exec. Board Member
interconnection in Europe.
Mission: To serve as the official dialogue
between American and European business
leaders and U.S. cabinet secretaries and
EU commissioners.
GridWise
Alliance
GE role: Former
Board
participation by the demand side in European
electricity markets – ensure consumer
benefits, increase security of supply and
reduce carbon emissions.
Japan Smart
Community Alliance
GE role: Member
Mission: To strengthen collaboration
among a wide range of concerned
organizations; conduct activities of mutual
interest, such as dissemination of information
and preparation of roadmaps to achieve
global standardization.
Member; Committee Members
Mission: To transform the electric grid to
achieve a sustainable energy future.
Smart Grid
Consumer
Collaborative
GE role: Board
Member;
Committee Chair; Founding
Mission: To gather all stakeholders to
Member
listen, educate, and collaborate toward
modernized electric systems in the United
States.
Smart Grid Australia
GE role: Committee Member
Mission: To educate, inform and lead
the debate to ensure consumers,
government and policy makers understand
the solutions, benefits and possibilities of
smart grids.
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Market and Technology Drivers
Carbon reduction
Renewable generation growth (Wind,
Solar…)
Electrification of transport and
heating (EV, heat pumps…)
Energy security
Economic competitiveness and
affordability
Small Distributed Generation,
Demand Side Mgmt, Smart Meters
Customer empowering (Residential
feed-in, storage, time of use tariffs…)
Regulatory incentives and energy policy are impacting
distribution networks which require investment to meet the
challenges
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The Energy Challenge
Security of supply
Optimising Network
Utilisation
Decarbonisation
Distributed
Generation
Affordability
Sustainable Jobs &
Growth
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The Leadership Challenge
Strong domestic
marketplace
Technology &
Innovation
Scalable &
competitive
supply chain
Supportive energy
policy and certainty
Source: Pew Environment Group 2011
Creating and maintaining a sustainable market for investment is vital
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The Investment Challenge – Key
Issues Affecting Low Carbon Investors
Finance
Infrastructure
• Size of capital
expenditure
• Rate of return
• Local grid capacity
constraints
• Planning of
transmission
and distribution
investments
Regulation
• Cost recovery
regulations for low
carbon investments
• Clarity
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The Regulatory Challenges across the EU
• Current focus of regional regulation is cost efficiency.
• Prices are set partially according to projections of
infrastructure maintenance cost – not Smart Grid
implementation costs.
• Cost reduction can lead to better margins but does not
incentivize investment in infrastructure.
• New business cases will change the relationship between
DSO and suppliers
• “Regulators should stick to regulating the functions of the
smart grid, not the technological solutions to achieve the
function” (UKERC )
• Business cases will be enabled by a two-way, reconfigurable
grid, allowing a higher degree of multi-dimensional opportunity
for new sources of revenues.
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Low carbon end game – the Journey
Smart Grid Journey
Build
Foundations
Busines
s
objective
Main
functionalit
y
GE Value
Proposition
s
Understand
current network
status
Network model
Switching plan
*
Improve
Performanc
e
Improve
customer
service (SAIDI)
Outage
* management
Full
Network
Visibility
Outage
avoidance
Proactively
avoid network
outages
Understand
network power
flows / voltages
GIS, M&D, SS
Au Smart
Distributed
Meters
power flow
DMS (SAIDI/SAIFI/OPEX reduction)
Control
Power
Flows
Control local
power flows
(EVs, PV…)
DG control
Integrated
DSM
Optimise
Network
Achieve max
return on
network assets
Active Network
/ Asset Mgmt
ANM
DSM
T&C VPP
DMS (SAIDI/SAIFI/OPEX
*
Constraint Management
reduction)
Low Carbon Economy
Improve Customer Service
Empowering Prosumers
Power Quality
Increase Energy Efficiency
Asset Management
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Cleaner, Smarter, More Efficient
How Complex Can We Be in an
Uncertain Investment Marketplace?
Energy Complex Solutions Matrix
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Complex problems, deliverable
solutions
• Two imminent challenges for energy
sector participants include:
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• Despatch of large scales distributed
generation as Virtual Power Plants
• Voltage control and quality on low
voltage network
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Virtual Power Plant – foundation
functions
Ancillary Services
Market
• Distributed energy
systems despatch
• Visibility of
technical and
commercial
parameters
• Despatch
cognisant of
system constraints
Energy Resources
Management
• Active despatch of
distributed energy
resources
• Economic energy
balancing
• Storage as
alternative to asset
replacement
Energy Aggregation
• Local and Network
level aggregation
• Independent of
energy type or
operator
• Allows smaller
players to enter
ancillary service
market
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VPP Solution Architecture - aggregation
EMS/DMS
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GE Energy Overview
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Regional Aggregator
T1
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Local Aggregator RTU 1
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Distributed Energy
T2
Local Aggregator RTU 2
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VPP Solution Architecture - despatch
EMS/DMS
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Regional Aggregator
T1
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Local Aggregator RTU 1
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Distributed Energy
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Local Aggregator RTU 2
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LV Voltage Control
Objective: Managing the Voltage Level on the Distribution Network
to enable integration of distribution generation while remaining within
the statutory voltage limits.
Advanced
LV Monitoring
Despatch
Algorithms
• Non intrusive
while collecting
network dynamic
measurements
• Maintains
continuity of
supply
• Wireless
communications
• Centralised or
devolved for
optimum asset
exploitation
• Active or passive
control
• Supports adoption
of low carbon
technologies
• Tap changing
distribution
transformer
• Primary tap
changing
• Embedded
generation
• Energy storage
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Cleaner, Smarter, More Efficient
Case Study – Enabling a Low
Carbon Economy
Enabling Low Carbon Economy
Problem Statement
Limitations in network visibility and control constrain the uptake of low carbon
technologies
Customer Objective
To demonstrate and identify future business processes that Distribution Network
Operators (DNO) will need to adopt to facilitate the new low carbon economy.
GE Solution
Shadow control environment providing a foundation to develop a Model, Monitor and Manage
approach comprising PowerOn Fusion™, SmallWorld ™and SMOS metering management
application with an interface to the current operational control environment .
Benefits
DNOs could collectively expect to see a net financial benefit of ~£5bn over 32 year period
through avoidance of conventional reinforcement (~£500m in a single Distribution Network)
DNOs could also expect to facilitate~34 Mt CO₂ emissions reduction nationally (UK) over the
same period
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Enabling Low Carbon Economy – Solution Architecture
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