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The Future of ElectricityDistribution
© Dan McGillivray, Ph.D.June 26, 2014
Emerging Trends in Sustainable Communities
Advances in Energy Technology &The Future of Electricity Distribution
1. Innovation Trends - R&D, new energy technologies andthe pace of development.
2. Centre for Urban Energy – research, innovation andeducation.
3. Impact on future sustainable housing and communities.
1. Our infrastructure is aging and needs to be replaced,refurbished and adapted to the demands of urban growth andextreme weather.
2. Our energy sector workforce is also aging …3. In the Province, we have rising supply and falling demand for
power… we have a surplus of power for the foreseeable future.4. In the City of Toronto, the demand for power is rising rapidly
and threatening to exceed demand.5. We have a consumer market challenged by rising electricity
prices and electricity market challenged by negative pricing.
10 Trends in Energy Innovation in Ontario
6. The Ontario consumer, who has been raised in a culture of plentyand expects cheap limitless reliable power without any generationor transmission in their own backyards (NIMBY; BANANA).
7. DG capacity enabled by the smart grid, continues to grow basedon renewable technologies (and CHP) … renewables are reachingparity with grid prices.
8. The pace of technology development is accelerating to the pointwhere homes and neighbourhoods will soon be able to go “off-grid”.
9. Large generation, transmission and distribution technologies (andbillions of dollars in assets may soon be “stranded”.
10. Electrical energy storage technologies are under development willbe disruptive for the sector, for our homes and for ourneighbourhoods.
10 Trends in Energy Innovation in Ontario
ENERGYEDUCATION
ENERGYEDUCATION
INNOVATIONi-CUE
INNOVATIONi-CUE
APPLIEDRESEARCHAPPLIED
RESEARCH
ENERGYEDUCATION
ENERGYEDUCATION
INNOVATIONi-CUE
INNOVATIONi-CUE
APPLIEDRESEARCHAPPLIED
RESEARCH
IP MANAGEMENTCOMMERCIALIZATION
ENGINEERINGSCIENCE
PUBLIC POLICYBUSINESS
JOURNALISM
i-2 FundRyerson Futures Inc.
Entrepreneur-in-ResidenceTALENT DEVELOPMENT& ENTREPRENEURSHIP
NETWORK
The Norman Esch Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards
Temporal Power Ltd.
• Energy Storage• Flywheel technology
• Energy capacity = 50 kWh• Power output = 500 kW per flywheel• Efficiency = 90 – 95%
Used Car Batteries for largescale energy storage (1.2 MWh)
Solar panels and transformers
Increasing the operational life ofdistribution transformers…
Building a State-of-the-ArtSmart Grid Laboratory
The Lab will house asmall distributionsystem and feature asubstation, switchboard,metering equipment,feeder automationequipment and real-time software providedby Schneider Electric.
Schneider ElectricSMART GRID LAB
• The multifunctional laboratory shallmimic, in a reduced scale, anautomated distribution system at3-phase 600 V.
• It will include a substation andfeeder automation system, real-time software, switchboards andmetering products.
• The lab will be OPEN & ACCESSIBLE
• The focus of the lab. will be research and development of innovative smart gridproducts, systems and software, training of students through hands-on experientiallearning and will entertain projects involving interoperability testing and verificationof smart grid technologies, micro-grid operation, outage management systems, meterdata management, distributed generation control.
WindgeneratoremulatorGrid
emulator
Storageemulator
Load(customer)emulator
Converter power structure
Converter with controller
Micro-grid Technologies
Fast-tracking electricvehicles
High efficiency, cost-effective andfaster chargers
Ontario municipalities nowempowered to offer PAPER,PACE programs to boost energy& water conservation…
Energy Savers is a student leadstart-up company which hasstream-lined the LIC processand is aiming to deliver “nocost state-of-the-art homeenergy retrofitting services”.
CEO: M. Ryan Manchee
Innovation Trends
Rocky Mountain Institute, February 2014
Distributed electricity generation,especially solar PV, is rapidly spreading andgetting cheaper.
Distributed electricity storage is doing thesame, thanks largely to the massproduction of batteries.
What happens when solar and batterytechnologies are integrated… and we rampup on conservation and demandmanagement technologies?
Rocky Mountain Institute, February 2014:
Utility Retail Price ProjectionsSolar-Plus Battery Costs
Rocky Mountain Institute, February 2014:
• Will the Electricity Grid Become Optional?
• Report identifies when and where solar-plus-battery systems could enableaffordable customer defection from utilities.
• Grid parity exists today in Hawaii forcommercial customers, and will rapidlyexpand to reach residential customers asearly as 2022.
Enabling Smart Networks & SmartCities…
Neetika Sathe, PowerStream Inc.April 10, 2014
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
SMARTGRID
The Pastlarge, remote
generationlarge, remote
generation
data collectorsdata collectors
customerscustomers
The Presentsmart suitemetering
smart suitemetering
renewablegenerationrenewablegeneration
smartappliances
smartappliances
smart griddeploymentsmart grid
deployment
data collectiondata collection
CDMCDM
The FutureElectricvehiclesElectricvehicles
Home areanetworks
Home areanetworks
EnergystorageEnergystorage
micro gridsmicro grids
Bi-directionalenergy flow
Bi-directionalenergy flow
automated datacollection
automated datacollection
Ontario Smart Home Roadmap
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