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Ram NarayanamurthyTechnical Executive

Electric Power Research Institute6-4-2019

Smart, Resilient and

Sustainable

CommunitiesEnhancing customer value and providing grid value

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The concept of the shared integrated grid (#sharedgrid)

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Customer, Grid and Societal values for Smart Communities

Decarbonization Energy ResilienceCustomer energy

Cost

Grid Resource integration

Scale emerging energy technologies

Customer comfort

These value

streams have

to be

integrated to

achieve full

benefits of

smart

communities

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The customer as a resource

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Community Energy Resilience for Natural Disasaters

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Integrating with the Advanced Energy Community

ESB Networks –

The Dingle Transition

Initiative

Exelon Com Ed –

Bronzeville Smart

Community

UK Power Networks

Flexibility Roadmap

Alabama Power

Smart

Neighborhood

(Birmingham)

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EPRI Research Initiative: Advanced Energy Communities

“Imagine the impact if there were thousands of these housing developments. Taken together with many

other changes in how energy is consumed will have a profound impact on the electric business”

- Ted Craver, CEO, Edison International, 2016

Advanced Energy Communities (AEC):

- Provide customer value through resilience, cost and comfort

- Demonstrate interaction of multiple customer resources with EE,

DR, PV, storage, electrification and EVs

- Achieve larger utility and societal goals such as decarbonization,

grid hardening and grid support

– Decarbonization & Electrification

– Customer Resiliency & Local Energy

– Community integration of energy technologies

– Customer data acquisition and analytics

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AECs epitomize accelerating “Grid Edge” evolution

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Gain Strategic Customer Insight through AEC

Demonstrations

Stakeholder Engagement

DemonstrationCustomer data at scale, grid

edge dataAnalytics Strategy

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Smart Neighborhood/Microgrid

ZNE new home

communities

IDSM low income

multifamily retrofit

ZNE Farms

ZNE Neighborhood

All Electric Zero Carbon

Community

ReNEWable Home

ZNE multifamily

distribution integration

Medical Campus Microgrid

Ongoing Smart Community Projects

ZNE Low Income

Multifamily

Communities

Near-Zero Low-Income

Multifamily Retrofit

Fontana ZNE

Community

Behind-the-meter Microgrid

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Smart Communities require multi-stakeholder DER coordination

Advanced Energy

Communities

Storage Providers

Solar Providers

City Permitting

Officials

HVAC and WH product

providers

Control systems

integration

Distribution Planning

Distribution Operations

Electrical Contractors

MEP Designers

Mechanical Contractors

New Construction

Practices

Builder

Energy Efficiency

DistrbutedGeneration

Demand Response

Energy Storage

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A focus on resilience

Resiliency as a driver is growing, and fast becoming critical:

– Large scale catastrophic events like Hurricane Sandy and wildfires

– Emergence of technologies such as solar PV and battery storage

– Trend towards decentralization of utility system

Resilience for large customers is not new

– But they are now aiming to meet resilience needs with solar and storage instead of just fossil fuel generation

A new trend is small customers such as homeowners also opting for resilience due to affordability of local storage

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Alabama Power Smart Neighborhood

62 home Smart Home Community

- With Smart appliances, HEMS, 2x6 walls

A full scale microgrid with 300 kW solar and storage (size TBD)

Dedicated distribution line to neighborhood

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Alabama Smart Neighborhood Microgrid

Advanced Buildings and Communities as Grid Resources

Operational Data vs. Energy Simulations Analysis of Emerging Building Technologies

Using Operational Data

Customer Connected Device Usage and Impact on Energy Consumption

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Military Microgrid – Resilience with renewables

Includes solar, storage and load control

Provides resilience for critical facilities

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Resilience as a Customer Choice – ZNE Neighborhood

Resilience with battery storage offered as a choice by solar provider (Tesla)

10% of homebuyers chose to spend additional expense to include batteries with their solar PV system

EPRI initiated project with PG&E for Zero Net Energy, low carbon smart community – Electrification of loads

– Community aggregation of storage, heating and water heating

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Affordable Smart Community: Willowbrook, CA

Solar + Storage + DC Loads – evaluation of resilience, energy cost and carbon reduction

Microgrid controller with value stacking

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California – Power Safety Power Shutoff

After recent wildfires, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has reduced threshold for deenergization– https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/deenergization/

Utilities developing plans and service offerings for customers during outages

Example projects – microgrids for fire stations and fuel stations– https://www.greentechmedia.com/article

s/read/solar-batteries-microgrids-california-grid-fire-shutdowns#gs.gdmxhk

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US Utility Customer-Sited Pilots & Programs by StateVermont:

• Green Mountain

Power to install 2,000

Powerwalls AND offer

new BYOD program

New Hampshire:

• Liberty Utilities to

install 200-500

Powerwalls

• Eversource proposes

$200/kW incentive for

BYOB program

Oregon:

• Portland General

Electric submitted

500 resi BESS pilot

to commission

Hawaii:

• HECO Purchasing

Grid Services via 3rd

party aggregators

Arizona:

• APS offers residential

customers $500 off

Sunverge One system

• SRP offers up to $1,800

rebate for 4,500

residential systems

Nevada:

• NV Energy creates

$5M incentive

program for residential

customers installing

storage with PV

New York:

• Con Edison seeks

customers with

outdoor space for

FTM projects for grid

benefit

• PSEG-Long Island

proposal would

provide customers

with $ for responding

during peak summer

demand periods via

BYOD program

Massachusetss:

• National Grid offers

BYOD program with

Sunrun

• Utility commission

approves $2B for

energy efficiency

(including storage)

California:

• SCE LCR/PRP

• SMUD residential

incentives

• SGIP

Washington:

• Puget Sound Smart

Grid demo selects

Sunverge for

aggregation with

controllable loads for

ADMS project

Colorado:

• Xcel Energy 500

residential BESS

proposal being

investigated

Alabama & Georgia:

• Southern Company

subsidiaries Alabama

Power and Georgia

Power create Smart

Neighborhood pilot

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Growth of C&I Sited Storage

In 2018:

• 1.7x more MWh’s deployed in 2018 than in 2017

• California accounts for vast majority of deployments

• Ontario Canada (not captured here)

• MA and NY expected to gain a significant share in the future

(Data Source: U.S. Energy Storage Monitor Q4 2018)

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Integrating customer resources for grid balancing

TREND: Open enabling platform for transactive management of cloud connected devices

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Residential Energy Services Platform - RES

Data is stored to a common standard across similar device or data topics

Agents manage the connection to vendors and devices using multiple protocols. An API Gateway allows access into RES

Cloud-Premise RES Bridge (gateway) manages the hybrid infrastructure and access to existing systems

Customer portal integrates to existing online customer systems for DER enrollment, marketing, and customer engagement

Data portal allows for self-service data provisioning for analytics

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Utility applications of AEC evaluations – The Why?

Grid Management Use Cases

Community scale distribution impacts

Demand management technologies for distribution

Microgrid technology and benefits

Load aggregation for TSO and DSO benefits

Recommendations for distribution planning practices

Utility Services Use Cases

Smart Home services and Advanced User Experience

Understanding customer preferences for DERs

Enabling utility IDSM programs through services and targeting

Customer Energy Use Cases

Value of Customer Resilience

Modeled vs. measured building energy use performance

Electrification of building energy systems and impact on energy use and emissions

Control systems for aggregation of customer owned resources

Utility Energy management service for energy cost and rate optimization

Usage patterns for electric vehicles and other customer systems

Measurement of building-as-a-resource for grid services

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