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Final IUWG symposium SGSC Customer Applications
1. Smart Grid, Smart City
Customer Applications and
Electric Vehicles
Terry Daly – Customer Applications
and Electric Vehicles Stream Lead
2. Can Smart Grids help solve the energy conundrum?
Challenge 1: Consumers reacting to price rises…
3. Long-term Growth Index of Rolling 12 Month Values
Challenge 2:The divergence between peak and energy growth is
expected to continue….
Switch to Gas &
Solar Hot Water
Price Increase
Solar PV
Programs
Home
Insulation
4. Customer Applications - Scope
20,000 Ausgrid
Customers
Up to 10,000 Retailer
Opt-In customers
5. Customer Applications – Key Objectives
Validate
Smart
Metering
Infrastructure
Business
Case
Consumer
Benefit
Able to better
manage costs
Retailer
Benefit
Wholesale cost
management
via demand
response
Society
Benefit
Reduced
environmental
impact
Distributor
benefit
Peak demand
management
via direct load
control
Smart Grid Security
Additional risks are not introduced that negate
the benefits
6. Engagement Methodology
Key requirements to develop continuous engagement
with the customer
Data
Provision
Education
Incentives
SGSC website
Energy portal
Information centre
Energy Audits
Workshops
Mail outs
7. Response measured over time
TIME
POSITIVEBEHAVIOUR
Typical response, behavior
drops off over time
Intervention with customer
creates short term stimulus
Desired effect, long term
change in behavior
9. Key Objectives
Feedback Technologies
• Test a suite of feedback technologies
• Compare the impact for different levels of functionality and
engagement
• Conventional methods have limited opportunities for customer
engagement
Utility solutions
• Load control options for air conditioning, hot water and pool filters
(DRED)
• Water Meter integration (1,500 homes)
• Gas meter integration (lab only)
10. Simple In Home Display
• Target for unit cost to
be below $50, resulting
in limited functionality
• One way integration
with meter
• Displays data in five
minute intervals
• “Always on”. Utility has
no visibility of level of
engagement
11. Advanced In Home Display
• Assumes customer
acquires device, not the
utility (due to cost)
• Gets data both locally
(meter) and from web
(utility)
• Reduces load on utility
communications network
• Displays data in five
minute intervals
• “Always on”. Utility has
some visibility of
engagement
15. Achievements to date - Newington
Newington Smart Village
• 700 homes with WiMAX smart meters
• Selection of those with full Home Area Network (HAN)
• HAN was via the customer boadband service rather than meter
Smart Home
• 2 kWh natural gas powered fuel cell
• 2 x solar totalling 2kWh
• 16 kWh battery
• Electric vehicle
• Innovative appliances
19. Smart Meter Functionality
• Remote read
• Load control via relay
• Remote connect / disconnect
• Power quality
• Supply capacity control
• Enables Home area network
Includes the following
NSSC Specifications
• Policy Based
• All open standards
• Meets North American Electric Reliability Council Critical Infrastructure
Protection (NERC-CIP) security benchmark
Additional to NSSC
Specifications
• Customer supply monitoring to detect degradation of neutral or earth etc.
But excludes the
following NSSC
Specifications
21. Why 4G Based Metering?
A single solution to meet all of Ausgrid’s last mile communication
requirements
Requirements Powerline
Mesh
Radio
4G 2G or 3G
DM&C
Field computing
Replacement load
control
Smart Metering
Good Fit
Partial Fit
Poor Fit
22. Positives and Negatives of 4G
A single solution to meet all of Ausgrid’s last mile communication
requirements
Positives Negatives
Open standards
Multiple vendors / carrier grade
Security
Licensed spectrum
Policy based
Bandwith
Coverage
Spectrum renewal
24. Smart Meter Functionality
• Deploy 50+ standard charge points and eight fast charge points
• Demonstrate demand management capability via remote controlling of
charging times
• Integrate the Network Control Centre systems between Ausgrid and
Better Place
Integrated model
• Develop and test the capability for an Electric Vehicle owner to be billed
for all recharging, regardless of the location of the recharge
• Demonstrate demand management capability via remote controlling of
charging times
Roaming model
• Examine customer charging behaviour and receptiveness to centrally
managed charging
• Examine the adoption of Electric Vehicles
• Investigate Electric Vehicle charging tariffs
• Evaluate possible approaches to billing and settlement
• Vehicle-to-Grid simulation using Distributed Storage Application
Research
