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This presentation was presented at the masterclass session during 11th Energy Storage World Forum in 2018, Berlin.
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2. Startups and large utilities now compete to provide C&I facilities with turnkey solutions
If you’d like to get a deep industry insights and learn in person from energy storage professionals, join our next masterclass at https://energystorageforum.com/register
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Direction of the Grid - SEMA Keynote Address 2017
1. Slide 110/02/2012 Slide 1
A Look Forward at the
Direction of the Grid
SEMA Keynote Address for the 92nd
Annual Short Course & Conference
Prepared by Tom Lawton,TESCO
The Eastern Specialty Company
For Southeastern Electricity Metering Association (SEMA)
Monday, November 6, 2017
1:00 p.m.
2. Slide 2
Our Perspective –
• What are our customers asking us for?
• What is the marketplace starting to look for?
• How can we apply new technologies?
Are we looking ahead?
Where are we heading and what does this mean for
Meter Services and related Electric Operations?
3. Slide 3
George Eastman, the founder, began a
successful Dry Plate company, The Eastman
Dry Plate Company in Rochester, NY in April
1880.
This company was embracing the relatively
new technology of the skyrocketing
photography industry.
He had a partner and a stable manufacturing
business allowing him to quit his day job at
the local bank and work at his own business
full time.
The Eastman Kodak Company
Why do we need to look ahead
and embrace the future?
4. Slide 4
Within a few years George Eastman saw that dry
plate technology was a thing of the past and film
was the way of the future.
By 1885 he had dissolved the partnership (not
everyone saw the same future) changed the
name of the company to the Eastman Dry Plate
and Film Company and purchased a patent for
roll film that he then developed much further.
The Eastman Kodak Company
First Tectonic technology shift
In 1888 he introduced the first model of Kodak camera, and
trademarked the name KODAK. Amateur photography was
born and the company took off.
5. Slide 5
A Kodak Moment........entered the common American
lexicon by the mid 20th century.
The company had navigated another fundamental shift
from black and white to color film.
By 1976 Kodak commanded 90% of the film market in the
US and 85% of camera sales and one of their research
scientists had discoved how to take digital pictures the
previous year.
Kodak pursued patents on digital pictures and was poised
to make yet another transition securing their success for
many years to come....
A KODAK Moment……
6. Slide 6
Upper management did not embrace digital technology
and decided to stay the course with their film technology.
Kodak realized their mistake by the 1990’s and tried to
reverse course by jumping in with both feet and
aggressively pursuing patent infringement law suits.
Their last patents on digital technology lapsed in 2007 and
by 2012 they declared bankruptcy eventually shedding
nearly all of their Intellectual Property and virtually every
business line. Kodak was finished.
A KODAK Missed Moment……
7. Slide 7
• Second Generation AMI
– New capabilities under glass
– Additional data and additional actionable work orders coming from Meter Services
– Private networks
• Street Lights
• Smart Poles
• Renewables
• Battery Storage
• Electric Vehicles
New Technologies and shifts in Meter
Services and Electric Operations
8. Slide 8
• We are approaching 50% deployed in North America and the North East is just starting
to go AMI. By 2022 we should be nearly 80% deployed and the early adopters who first
started deploying in 2007 will be starting on their second generation deployments.
• We are seeing more and more features incorporated inside the meter.
• Disconnect Devices are essentially standard
• Power Quality and circuit sensing devices are working inside the meter and sending
operational data back to the utility
Next Generation AMI
9. Slide 9
• Initial promises of advances in outage management have been realized and the
technology continues to improve and add more benefits. As Bill showed in the
previous presentation current benefits include, but are not limited to:
– Usage Data
– Fault Locating
– TX Loading
– Phase Balance
– Smart Pole
– Outage Detection/Loss of Neutral
– Tampering
– Street Light Control
• Electric Operations is starting to come to Metering for data and actionable operational information.
Next Generation AMI (con’t)
10.
11. Slide 11
• AMI Mesh Networks operate on an unused public bandwidth or a private bandwidth.
• Powerline carrier is losing popularity due to a perceived information bandwidth limitation.
• Cellular Deployments are frustrating as celluar technology changes far faster than utility
infrastructure
• As data costs continue to plummet the larger carriers are now starting to offer 20 year leases for
bandwidth that will allow utilities to launch private networks.
Frustration over technology obsolescence
Communication Networks
12. Slide 12
A Better Solution
• Light the street or parking area better
• Significantly less light pollution
• Significantly less energy usage
• Additional lighting features not possible before;
– Turning the lights up and down to better suit usage and need
– Directing emergency vehicles
– Alerting motorists to hazards
BUT……..
• Every light or bank of lights now needs a meter and not just
a “street light rate”
• A potentially significant investment in new infrastructure for
a utility to obtain far less revenue. Embracing the
future…..is this truly a good investment?
Street Lights…..
13. Slide 13
As the first new Street Light poles go in so does a
new revenue opportunity
• Cellular carriers want to put their transmission devices
in every new street light/smart pole installation in the
country as quickly as they are being deployed.
• Once again we need to meter this new application, and
the this time the revenue generated will be more than
the old street light usage.
….and Smart Poles
14. Slide 14
• As an industry we have moved away from coal (53% to
30.4% in 20 years) as the economics and social
concerns move us toward a signficant increase in
natural gas (14% to 33.8%) and renewables (9% to
14.9%)
• These renewables are often brought on line by
customers within a utilities service territory
• Many utilities are actively pursuing ways to partner with
their customers on renewables
Our Brave new world
Renewables and Distributed Generation
15. Slide 15
• The key to renewables is energy storage
• Hydro has pumped water for years in non-peak hours when energy is
extremely inexpensive or even free.
• Wind farms and solar are great when the wind is blowing and the sun
is shining
– If you do not have a back up for when the wind stops and sun
does not shine, there is not much practical benefit from
renewables
• Utility Grade Storage
– SDG&E 120MW of storage in one of two new energy storage
projects
• Residential Grade Storage
– Tesla is leading the charge with their Power Wall to go with their
proposed solar shingles
Utility Grade and Residential Storage
16. Slide 16
Energy Usage per capita has been essentially flat for
20 years
• Peak year per person was 2005
• Has fluctuated within a few percent since 1997
• There are new emerging markets
• Electric Vehicles – a technology of the future?
New Markets
Electric Vehicles
17. Slide 17
• Safer
• Autonomous drivers – faster and safer
• New market for electric use
– Avg Energy usage in US is 901 kWh according to the US
Energy Information Administration
– Average amount of energy to recharge an electric vehicle from
10% to 80% is @70kWh
• New potential for energy storage
Electric Vehicles Disruptive Technology
Managing the Risks
18. Slide 18
More data, faster. More analytics. A more robust and energy efficient Grid. And a greater need than ever before to understand Metering.
And if we continue to stay on top of our game we can create a Kodak moment for metering.......of the right kind
Our Advanced Metering Infrastructure
And at the Center of Everything……
19. Slide 19
Questions and Discussion
Tom Lawton
tom.lawton@tescometering.com
TESCO – The Eastern Specialty Company
Bristol, PA
215-785-2338
This presentation can also be found under Meter
Conferences and Schools on the TESCO web site:
www.tescometering.com