The document discusses the crucial role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the management and optimization of smart grid infrastructure. It outlines challenges utilities face, such as aging equipment and data management, and demonstrates how GIS can facilitate operational awareness, workforce optimization, and data integration for better decision-making. The importance of accurate data and real-time analytics is emphasized as essential for effective smart grid operation.

2. Esri Empowers
the Smart Grid
Bill Meehan, P.E., Director
Utility Solutions
ESRI

3. Esri GIS
Understand all of your assets
Support key Smart Grid requirements
Collaborate across the organization

4. Challenges
Increasing
Age of
Customer
Equipment
Demands
Costs Regulatory Consumption
Demands and People

5. Challenges
Decreasing
Places to
Resources Install Skilled
Equipment Employees
Customer
Budgets
Patience

6. Issues
Disparate data Disconnection from
the field
Lack of analysis What’s going on
right now?

7. Are your issues
preventing you
from meeting
your challenges?

8. GIS Capabilities
Helping to resolve the issues
Data Management
Analysis
Site 1
Site 3 Mobile
Site 2 Awareness

9. A GIS is not just
about maps

10. It’s about solving
tough problems

11. Design Process Automation
Load Forecasting Land/Property/ROW
Management
Environmental Management
Work Order Management
Like
Area Isolation
Green Energy Development
Mobile Facility Inspections
Leak Survey & CP
these
Facility/Asset Management
DIMP
Routing & Dispatch
Mapping & Reporting ERP Integration
Marketing
Vegetation Management Visualization
Siting
Smart Grid

12. Location is the Common Denominator

13. M M M

14. Why is GIS so Important to Smart Grid?
Features of GIS together with Smart Grid
• Manages the grid data
- Wires/devices
- Telco
- Integrates the grid parts
- Server based
• Provides analysis capabilities
- RF planning (AMI)
- Transformer loading/reliability studies
- Risk analysis
- ArcGIS provides rich analytics

15. Why is GIS so Important to Smart Grid?
Features of GIS together with Smart Grid
• Workforce optimization
- Access to knowledge in the field
- Data capture
- Work management
- Server based mobile solution
- Deployed on popular platforms
- iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile
• Operational Awareness
- Visualize the grid data
- Must know the health of the system
- Real time view of the grid
- Simple to use web API’s

16. Enterprise GIS and Smart Grid
Foundational technology
• GIS will not
- Control and monitor
- Process sensor data
- Manage Smart Meter data
• Smart Grid will not
- Collect, process on-going network data transactions
- Provide visualization – particularly spatial
- Provide an integration framework for corporate data

17. Enterprise GIS and Smart Grid
Foundational technology
• GIS will
- Model the T&D system (like it does now)
- Provide network data to Smart Grid (like it does for
OMS)
- Receive real time data from Smart Grid
- Provide an information framework for corporate
decision making (of which Smart information is a part)
- Visualize all aspects of the Smart Meter deployment

18. What Else?
• Spatially enable smart meters and MDM
• Using GIS for AMI rollout
• Smart Grid Asset Management
• Use of a GIS Server and SOA for integration
• Management of renewable distributed resources

19. Utility Challenges – the Data

20. The Deadly Backlog
B

21. How Complete is the Data?
• Secondary network system
- Large, older cities
- Downtown networks
- Spot network systems
• Secondary electric
- Overhead
- Underground
- Services
• Structures

22. Landbase/Basemaps

23. The Customers

24. GIS Capabilities
Data Analysis Mobile Awareness
Management

25. Data From Everywhere
Authoritative
Predictive
Measured
Experiential
Community

26. GIS Capabilities
Data Analysis Mobile Awareness
Management

27. Demographic Profiling – Demand Forecasting

28. Measuring Performance
AAA Communications Inc.
Wireline – Selected Operating Statistics
2009 2010 2011
Unaudited 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q
Connections (000)
FTTH TV Subscribers 2,414 2,601 2,750 2,914 3,086 3,290 3,472 3,664
FTTH Internet Subscribers 2,942 3,136 3,286 3,466 3,659 3,885 4,082 4,289
FTTH Digital Voice residence connections 3 6 19 93 346 672 817 977
FTTH Digital connections 5,359 5,743 6,055 6,473 7,091 7,847 8,371 8,930
HSI and other 5,122 4,983 4,874 4,775 4,620 4,454 4,310 4,201
Total Broadband connections 8,063 8,119 8,160 8,241 8,279 8,340 8,392 8,490
Primary residence switched access connections 14,388 14,024 13,643 13,258 12,739 12,153 11,757 11,359
Primary residence connections 14,391 14,030 13,662 13,351 13,085 12,825 12,574 12,336
Total retail residence voice connections 15,828 15,394 14,965 14,587 14,252 13,919 13,616 13,327
Total voice connections 29,797 29,003 28,323 27,719 27,138 26,544 26,001 25,454
Net Add Detail (000)
FTTH TV Subscribers 284 187 149 164 172 204 182 192
FTTH Internet Subscribers 289 194 150 180 193 226 197 207
FTTH Digital Voice residence connections 1 3 13 74 253 326 145 160
FTTH Digital connections 574 384 312 418 618 756 524 559
HSI and other (121) (139) (109) (99) (155) (166) (144) (109)
Total Broadband connections 167 56 41 81 38 61 52 98
Primary residence switched access connections (357) (364) (381) (385) (519) (586) (396) (398)
Primary residence connections (356) (361) (368) (311) (266) (260) (251) (238)
Total retail residence voice connections (424) (434) (429) (378) (335) (333) (303) (289)
Total voice connections (748) (794) (680) (604) (581) (594) (543) (547)
Other Operating Statistics
Capital expenditures ($M) $ 2,338 $ 2,273 $ 2,278 $ 1,566 $1,781 $1,751 $2,171 $ 1,465
Wireline employees (K) 118.7 115.1 110.1 108.0 103.4 97.5 92.3 92.0
FTTH Internet Open for Sale (K) 10,414 10,928 11,630 11,968 12,258 12,525 12,786 12,962
FTTH Internet penetration 28% 29% 28% 29% 30% 31% 32% 33%
FTTH Video Open for Sale (K) 9,741 10,352 11,133 11,479 11,802 12,077 12,388 12,585
FTTH Video penetration 25% 25% 25% 25% 26% 27% 28% 29%

29. Measuring Performance

30. Siting Wind Energy

31. GIS Capabilities
Data Analysis Mobile Awareness
Management

32. Mobile
• Optimize
• Accurate
• Empowered
• Confidence

33. Mobile
“Our employees used to see pieces of the picture in their minds or on
a scrap of paper. Now they can all see the whole picture and
contribute to it.”
—Duane Holt, Intermountain REA

34. GIS Capabilities
Data Analysis Mobile Awareness
Management

35. Awareness
• Communication
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Stakeholder decisions

36. Awareness
"While our goal is to keep the
lights on and restore power
as quickly and safely as
possible if it does go out --
we recognize that accurate,
up-to-date information is
extremely important to our
customers in the event of a
service disruption"
— Rodney Blevins, vice
president, Electric
Distribution, Dominion
"Knowledge may not be as
good as 'power,' but it helps
customers better manage the
situation."

37. ArcGIS Enables a Better Management of Smart
Grid

38. You can’t have a Smart Grid without GIS
• GIS is an integral part of Smart Grid
• Must have completely accurate data
• Need fast process to feed analytics
• ArcGIS is the integration framework for Smart Grid