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Pioneering utilities have been testing and building various components of the Smart Grid for some time now. That's good news if you're just getting started. You can save time and money by taking advantage of the pioneers' "lessons learned" highlighted in this section.
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IEC’s vast fiber network covers a large part of the Israeli electric grid. IEC was looking to cover all remote locations, however this required a huge investment, long term deployment and
substantial resources. They required a solution that would enable connectivity to all remote sites including last mile connections from the fiber network end point and large area coverage. The solution? Deployment of a wireless access infrastructure ideal for remote connectivity using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX base stations and CPE’s. |
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The developments that the Naperville, Ill. Department of Public Utilities have made in their efforts to update their power grid epitomizes the city’s true spirit of innovation. When they set out on their mission to build a more reliable, cost competitive, and efficient grid nearly 20 years ago, they started down a path toward building a smart microgrid before the term even existed. This case study sponsored by the Galvin Electricity Initiative highlights that effort. |
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The security requirements of distribution automation are quite different than those at the transmission and generation levels of the power network. This paper examines some of the strategies and solutions a major utility considers to ensure the secure operation of its distribution automation system. |
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This report focuses on the nuclear power sector of the industry as it prepares for the forecasted surge in work. “Lessons learned” from other industry sectors can be used to develop a strategy around the value-added lessons in planning, resourcing, implementation and execution of future power/energy sector capital projects. |
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Entergy, a Fortune 500 company with 14,300 employees, produces and delivers electric power to 2.7 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The company has captured trillions of records from its supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system and its more than 320,000 SCADA objects. To better extract value from SCADA data, the utility deployed a real-time data storage application, called Pegasus RDS, which was created by Microsoft partner Nobadeer Software. |
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EPRESA, a Spanish power distribution company, needed a highly reliable backbone network that can be used for multiple applications including Smart Grid, smart metering, distribution automation, SCADA, video surveillance, customer Internet access and VoIP. This case study explains how the company worked with RuggedCom to achieve that. |
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This report presents a comprehensive framework for estimating the benefits and costs of Smart Grid projects and a step-by-step approach for making these estimates. The framework identifies the basic categories of benefits, the beneficiaries of these benefits, and the Smart Grid functionalities that lead to different benefits and proposes ways to estimate these benefits, including their monetization. The report covers cost effectiveness evaluation, uncertainty, and issues in estimating baseline conditions against which a project would be compared. The report also suggests metrics suitable for describing principal characteristics of a modern Smart Grid to which a project can contribute. |
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In 2003, Austin Energy undertook a wide project to revolutionise its enterprise ICT architecture and prepare the company for the construction of a modern energy system - customer-driven, integrated, interactive, optimised, distributed, secure and self-healing1. The project, completed in August 2009 is known as Austin Energy Smart Grid 1.0. It was focused on installing about 5,000 digital devices and related ICT solutions going from the central power plant through the transmission and distribution systems and all the way to the meter and back. Even before it wrapped up, Austin Texas had started preparing phase two by launching the “Pecan Street Project” to develop a citywide smart grid. |
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If you missed the High Performance in Data Management Webinar presented by Smart Grid News and Accenture, the complete video archive and slide decks are now posted. Click inside for access - and stay tuned for details on the next webinar in our Lessons from the Real World series. |
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As this overview discusses, primary drivers for selecting OSIsoft PI at CPS Energy were the ability to create custom displays easier, to retrieve data quickly and easily using common tools such as Excel, plus dissatisfaction with performance of existing historian and a desire to make use of the multiple interface capability (T&D EMS, Gas SCADA, Modbus, etc.) and to provide access to data for staff in corporate offices.
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A southern California grocery store chain has earned $250,000 annually for its participation in energy solutions provider EnerNOC's demand response program. We've got to wonder if DR companies are going to find themselves in some tough bargaining sessions once word gets out. |
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WPPI Energy represents a microcosm of the needs and issues of Smart Grid implementation for municipals across the U.S. Implementation of systems across 52 different organizations (51 members and the WPPI Energy organization itself) makes Smart Grid standards and interoperability not only desirable, but absolutely critical for success. This case study reviews some activities undertaken to develop WPPI's Smart Grid roadmap. |
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Buckeye Power, Inc. is the wholesale power supplier for the 25 electric distribution cooperatives operating in Ohio. The 25 cooperatives combined serve more than 380,000 homes and businesses in 77 of Ohio's 88 counties. To enhance system reliability, Buckeye Power wanted a system that could report outages from the more than 330 delivery points on their system. In addition, operations wanted power quality information from the delivery points as well. By combining outage data with power quality information, Buckeye could achieve better real-time monitoring of the delivery points on their system. |
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Why learn everything the hard way? Instead, we should study other industries with large information networks like the Smart Grid's and learn from them. That way we can leapfrog past the mistakes they made and go straight to best practices other industries learned over decades. An expert from the telecommunications industry stops by with two important concepts utilities should borrow for the Smart Grid. |
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Austin Energy partnered with IBM to create one of the United States’ first Intelligent Utility Networks (IUNs) with the ability to centrally manage, monitor and control the grid to an unprecedented degree. |
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Utilities need a high-performance, low-cost way to distribute real-time pricing data to customers so that they can make smarter consumption decisions. Invensys responded by creating a smart grid communications platform using The Service Bus and Access Control Service, both part of the Windows Azure™ platform. The resulting platform enables utilities to immediately embrace smart grid services at affordable prices. Such services will help utility customers save money by using energy more wisely. |
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This study applies individual utility customer end-use hourly electric loads to evaluate smart grid costs and benefits. Data for more than 800,000 residential and commercial utility customers in the 200 largest U.S. utilities were applied in the study. Jackson Associate's MAISY agent-based end-use model was applied to analyze peak hour electricity savings for a Duke Energy Indiana smart grid implementation. |
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This is the story of a major northeastern U.S. utility’s efficient and cost-effective path to automating its entire distribution and service restoration system. The project ultimately involved the addition of hundreds of breaker reclosers and other devices and integrating all that equipment into the distribution system. |
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This presentation by Canmet Energy discusses planned islanding guidelines, case study scenarios and experiences from a BC Hydro project. |
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This cases study highlights the opportunities and challenges involved in SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink project that includes a 120-mile electric transmission line from Imperial Valley to San Diego, carrying 1,000 megawatts of power – enough energy for 650,000 homes - and facilitating development of 1,000 MW of renewable energy potential in California's Imperial Valley region. |
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Owners of small to mid-sized restaurants were consistently choosing gas-powered cooking equipment despite the clear benefits of going electric. The utility company sought to convert those customers to electric appliances. The solution?
Spur the sales of electrical equipment by rewarding restaurant equipment distributors for influencing the restaurant owners to go electric. Distributors earned points for selling and installing electrical equipment in new and existing restaurants. |
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A leading North American electric company sought to integrate its CIS system with multiple AMI and MDM systems. Infosys’ solution helped the company define the integration architecture and business processes required, as this case study explains. |
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Southern Company’s rapid business growth had created server sprawl, threatening to outstrip the available data center space and driving up costs by consuming more energy each year. Virtualizing and consolidating on Dell PowerEdge R900 servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series enables the Southern Company IT team to save data center space, reduce costs, and increase energy efficiency. |
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Establishing Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Guidelines is an essential first step in building a successful infrastructure within the Province of British Columbia (BC). EV and PHEV have unique requirements that internal combustion vehicles do not. Although not intended to be an installation manual or as a replacement for approved codes and standards, these Guidelines provide the necessary information for understanding these requirements and the related governing authority references so that successful planning, design, permitting and construction will lead to successful adoption of EVs and PHEVs in British Columbia. |
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A large municipal utility that serves a metropolitan area of over a million people asked Optimal Technologies to demonstrate how AEMPFAST could significantly improve the load serving and import capability of its system. Their system was comprised of 13,928 buses, 12,536 line sections, 2,730 generators and 7,126 loads. The goal was to improve the load serving capability of a zone within this system while considering the interaction with the rest of the system. |
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