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What does victory look like for electric utility fleet managers? Being
obsessed with safety, fuel options, environmental concerns and
mechanical issues are only a few of the challenges to winning.
By Rod Walton, Senior Editor
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By Mike Kaplan, Ecova
24 Recognizing a Tiger
Cats and tigers are different, no doubt, but you must understand and
Teamwork Matters process to compare and contrast. The same is true of machine learning.
By CJ Parisi and Siri Varada, ABB Enterprise Software
In a mission to provide better customer service
in the Fresno, California, service district, Pacific
Gas & Electric (PG&E), ACRT Inc. and Trees 26 Energy Storages Sweet Spot
Inc. created a plan that has helped enhance A MW-scale energy storage system (ESS) can be vital to address
unpredictability in renewable generation. The challenge, however, is
overall service to its customer base. sizing the ESS for maximum operational and financial benefit.
By Pat Paternostro, ARCT; Joe Stewart, By Michael Lippert, Saft
PG&E; Tony Carlos, Trees Inc.
30 Taking Charge: Start Now
From the Editor 4 Black start milestone in California shows potential of energy storage to
keep the grid humming without fail.
Notes 5 By Rod Walton, Senior Editor
Products 34
31 Microgrids
Calendar/Ad Index 35 Some consider them a threat to revenues, but are microgrids a mega-
opportunity for electric utilities?
Parting Thoughts 36 By Tom Rooney and Bill Moran, TRC Companies
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Takes Teamwork
Across the entire service network,
PG&Es goal is to maintain an average
customer service rating of excellent.
To achieve that goal, PG&E has acted on
teams, vendors and partners. Heres the story of customer feedback while evaluating how
the entire organization works together as
happen by making teamwork their No. 1 priority. a team to provide excellent service.
ENHANCING CUSTOMER
COMMUNICATION
M ost customers dont think about what
goes on behind the scenes when it
comes to electricity, or about what goes into
Due to PG&Es strong relationship with
local tree company Trees Inc., a pilot pro-
making it possible to turn on a lightbulb, gram was launched based on improving
watch TV or access any other modern neces- communication with every customer. The
sity. Those whose job is to make this possi- participants included crews from ACRT
ble, however, know that it takes hard work, Inc., which is PG&Es vegetation manage-
dedication and teamwork to pull it off. ment consulting partner, Trees Inc. and
In a mission to provide better customer PG&E employees.
service in the Fresno, California, service The pilot program included a series
district, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), of focus groups to create a platform for
ACRT Inc. and Trees Inc. created a plan ACRTs foresters and Trees Inc.s tree care
that has helped enhance overall service workers to get to know one another.
to its customer base. Its a multifaceted Although their work overlaps, the group
approach that has served the utility and its sessions allowed foresters and tree care
partners well over the past several years. workers to become acquainted on a per-
Following are some of the essential sonal level and to chat about shared busi-
tenets of their approach to providing ness as it relates to their important work.
better service. In addition, the focus groups offered
field personnel a firsthand look at deci-
EVALUATING CUSTOMER SERVICE sion making at the management level.
PG&Es service platform revolves around Participants viewed customer satisfaction
three critical metrics that are followed surveys, metric scorecards and patrol
across every service its provides: safety, standards, offering transparency into
quality of work and customer satisfaction. how field operations were connected to
Safety and quality of work are straight- the goals of the management teams.
forward measures. Safety can be mea- Most importantly, the focus groups
sured by how many accidents are report- brought clarity to sometimes difficult
ed each month, work quality by how customer scenarios that these teams
often crews must be sent into the field to often face. Teams were given talking
make corrections. points and training on how to deal with
Customer service can be a little more these scenarios appropriately, effective-
slippery. One of the ways that PG&E ly and consistently. Creating a uniform
measures customer service is through experience for customers when chal-
a regularly distributed survey among lenging situations ariseunwanted but
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#POWERGEN
SHEDDING
ON ALL FORMS OF
LIGHT
POWER GENERATION
Embracing the
Future of Connectedd
Energy Technologiess
A s utilities develop their demand side
management and customer solution
strategies, they face a host of challenges
de
on
ges
ranging from new business models to com- m-
petition for customer dollars. Emerging con-
nected devices and technologies can be part
of the solution, giving utilities a platform to
enhance customer engagement and improve
demand side management.
Utilities shouldnt, however, sit back
and wait for the next Nest thermostat to
come along. Transforming market adop- much more pro-
tion of connected devices has historically found than simply cre-re-
been easier said than done. Utilities ating new hardware designs,gns, photo courtesy Nest
should proactively use lessons learned algorithms and smartphone apps. pps.
from the success of Nest, and competi- They made the standard, fairly uninter- as more energy efficiency products
tive smart thermostats, and apply them esting thermostat something that cus- become smart, connected and valuable to
to the next wave of connected energy tomers actually covet. consumers and businesses. There are sev-
saving devices for utility residential and Smart thermostats engaged customers eral home and building technologies that
business customers alike. in a new way by moving the conversation have the potential to be Nestified. With
When Nest first launched in 2010, the beyond the basic capabilities of the ther- the right set of customer offerings, utilities
idea that a customermuch less droves mostat. The marketing and sales pitch can expand adoption of these solutions
of themwould pay $250 for a ther- was no longer just about new features and get customers to opt-in to demand
mostat was a foreign concept at best. As and functions for controlling customers side management at the same time:
with many innovative end-user technol- HVAC and saving energy. It was about Energy management systems for
ogies, the prognosticators were wrong. something bigger: simplifying customers small-to-medium-sized businesses:
Looking ahead, Smart Thermostats lives, providing customers with more Energy management systems (EMS)
Market Report 2015-21, released by control and comfort in their homes, and are not new in the commercial sec-
IOT Analytics in March 2016, predicts leading a savvier and more high-tech tor. Long considered a large com-
smart thermostat sales are expected to lifestyle. The message resonated with mercial offering, small-to-medium-
reach $4.7 billion by 2021, growing from utility customers, driving demand for sized businesses (SMBs) can now
$879 million in 2016. reasons beyond the original energy sav- take advantage of the EMS (or smart
Smart thermostat makers drove mass- ings intent. thermostat) capabilities to improve
market adoption by doing something Utilities can learn from this experience control of their buildings, attacking
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MEASURING AFFINITY
The advanced grid connectivity algo- Affinity between any Meter Pair
Meters on Separate Transformers Meters on Same Transformer
rithms exploit the fact that a voltage
change caused by switching a load at a to which affinity between FIGURE 2: Home vs. Away Affinity of 597 ServicePoints
premise is felt by most meters that are any two meters varies
connected to the same transformer. By helps in determining
correlating each meters voltage changes meter-to-transformer
to those of all other meters that are with- connectivity.
in a reasonable radius (approximately The orange curve in Home Affinity
1,000 feet), therefore, grid operators can Figure 1 shows the dis-
distinguish meters on the same trans- tribution of affinities CL)
95%
former that show the same, simultaneous between meters con- tin
(no
rea
voltage change, from meters on other nected to different trans- rey
A
G
transformers that do not show any simul- formers. The blue curve
taneous change. in this figure shows the
Away Affinity
Because interval data timing is impre- distribution of affinities
cise, identifying actual connectivity between meters on the same transformer. x-axis. Note the nearly complete sepa-
requires collecting and correlating a The number of combinations is shown ration of affinity ranges between same
sufficiently large number on the left or right vertical axis respec- transformer and different transform-
of voltage changes tively, and the affinity for each er meter pairs. For each individual
in order to use combination is shown on the meter, the analytic process calculates
statistics-based affinities with every other meter that
approaches to minimize utility records indicate is on the same
error. This method uses a transformer. The highest such affinity
quantitative measure, affini- is called home affinity. For the same
ty, which characterizes the meter, affinities are then calculated with
degree to which two meters every meter not on the same transformer,
experience the same local within a configurable distancesuch as
voltage changes. The degree 1,000 to 3,000 feet. The highest such
affinity is called away affinity.
If home affinity is higher than away
affinity, the utility-supplied connectivity
data for the subject meter is validated as
correct. If the away affinity is greater than
the home affinity, the utilitys connectiv-
ity data is likely wrong for this meter.
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of transformer capacity. This connection between an individual meter and a data without accurate and timely knowl-
distribution transformer is known as transformer connectivity. edge of meter-to-transformer or meter-
to-phase connectivity is like finding your
way with an out-of-date map. Advanced
Furthermore, the transformer to which the correct home for the subject meter. grid connectivity algorithms are like the
the meter with the highest affinity is con- GPS for smart grid analytics, allowing
nected indicates the most likely correct IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE utilities to accurately and timely track
transformer for the subject meter. CONNECTIVITY meter locations in relation to the trans-
Figure 2 shows a sample of 597 meters Accurate meter-to-transformer con- formers that serve them.
whose home affinity is shown on the nectivity as well as meter-to-phase is
Y-axis and the away affinity on the essential to enable a truly smart grid. It
X-Axis. All meters in the top left half of allows utilities to analyze each line seg- Robert Sonderegger is a
the figure have correct connectivity as ment from meter to feeder for revenue director and software engi-
neering advisor at Itron. He is
stated, while the 10 percent of meters in assurance and theft detection, and to
responsible for technical lead-
the bottom right half are clearly miscon- gain valuable insight into their distribu- ership, software innovation
nected. For any one meter in this group, tion systems. Utilities can detect power and advanced technology.
its away affinity on the x-axis points to theft and high-impedance connections
Recognizing a Tiger
Teaching Machines to Learn and Prevent Asset Failure
I magine youre walking through a jungle
populated with all kinds of wild animals
and have only heard of, but never seen, a
tiger. For your safety, you need to know how
to identify a tiger and take evasive action to
avoid becoming its next meal. If someone
told you a tiger has four legs, pointed ears, a
long tail and whiskers, theres a good chance
youd be frightened if a common cat crossed
your pathand while your attention was
on the cat, the tiger might sneak up on you.
There is much difference between a common
cat and a tiger, but not until youve seen and
compared both can you process the differ-
ences and learn to recognize one from the
other. Its a simplistic example, but it high-
lights the critical nuances of learning. The
same is true of machine learning: if you want
a computer to distinguish a tiger from a cat, actions. Just like the stroller in the jungle, create a system that could then produce
it must have the right parameters or features the solution must process normal data automated decisions. Even with a full
that uniquely define a cat and a tiger. operations to recognize the comparative team of experts, it took several months
That might sound a bit counterintui- view of data indicating potential risk. to develop a first principles-based model
tive; after all, the widely-accepted defi- ABBs 30 plus years of history creating to predict the probability of failure. In
nition of machine learning from pioneer industrial software provided data models todays dynamic and fast-paced business,
Arthur Samuel says that the computer for operationally sound assets, which companies rarely can dedicate that kind
can learn without being explicitly pro- the company used as a foundation for the of time to creating a single asset model.
grammed. The key lies in the word analytical software solution. This is where machine learning excels.
explicitly, because when it comes to
learning, neither machine nor human LEARNING EXTENDS INITIAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINE LEARNINGNOT NEW,
can start from nothing. ABB held a lot of transformer data BUT NEWLY EMPOWERED
from not only ABB transformers, but also Machine learning, along with other
EXPERT SYSTEMS START WITH EXPERTS from other vendors such as GE/Alstom, branches of artificial intelligence, is not
Lets consider how human knowledge Waukesha and others. When developing a new discipline. It started in the 1950s
leads to machine learning. An analytical its power transformer data models, there- with work from famous pioneers like
software solution that ABB has worked fore, it had a lot of useful information to Alan Turing and the previously-men-
on for several years, ABB Ability Asset build the foundation. The transformer tioned Arthur Samuel. Today, because
Health Center, uses data gathered from health model was carefully crafted by of advances in computing speed and
industrial assets to predict potential translating and codifying experience and the availability of accessible intelligence
risk of failure and determine remedial best practices from domain experts to platforms like Microsoft Cortana, this
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SMOOTHING
Smoothing aims to keep production within a
given forecast window. The ESS compensates for
power sags and, like ramp rate control, it will
experience many small to medium charge and
discharge cycles with a cumulated energy through-
put equivalent to several full charge and discharge
cycles (Figure 2).
FIGURE 5: Frequency regulation allows ESS to inject or absorb active power
POWER SHAPING to or from the grid
Power shaping uses an ESS to shape the power
output of a plant to deliver steady and predictable
power like baseline generation (Figure 3).
An ESS used for a typical PV farm in this mode
will deliver a large discharge in the morning, before
charging up during peak daylight hours in the mid-
dle of the day and discharging again later in the day.
A typical example for shaping of a 10 MW solar power
plant would be an ESS providing 5 MW power and 10
MWh energy. The average DOD would be 35 percent,
with a daily energy throughput of 7 MWh, or 0.7C.
PEAK SHAVING
Peak shaving is intended to reduce congestion on the
grid at peak times (Figure 4). It is mostly used to reduce FREQUENCY REGULATION
load in periods of high consumption. For example, Frequency regulation ensures grid stability by injecting or absorbing
the ESS discharges to supply consumption peaks, thus active power to keep the frequency inside its limits (Figure 5). In doing
relieving the grid from supplying peak power. so, the ESS helps the grid accommodate more renewable sources.
The technique is also possible on the supply The operational profile of the ESS will depend on the number and
side. For example, the ESS charges (absorbs energy) amplitude of grid frequency deviations. Typically, deviations are of short
when the PV or wind plants power exceeds a set duration and only infrequently at full amplitude. Operational character-
limit. It releases energy into the grid later in the day istics of the ESS can vary considerably depending on the specific appli-
once the peak has subsided. It thereby ensures that cation and location, especially the distribution of discharge cycles at each
the output of a plant never goes beyond an agreed power level.
limit and avoids revenue loss through curtailment. Frequently, operators request that the ESS associated with wind or
In both cases, peak shaving avoids or defers solar plants also provide frequency regulation services on top of its initial
investments in grid infrastructure that would other- smoothing or shaping function. Furthermore, fast reacting energy storage
wise be necessary to cope with peaks in consump- enables renewable plants to effectively contribute to frequency regulation
tion or generation. services.
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tomers objectives for the plants power Level of power fluctuation Optimization
Max power output
output. This is basically the mode of Droop of frequency regulation Power injected
Voltage control Operation profile Power lost
operation, which can include one or Inertia Power consumed
Power plant Efficiency
more of the roles previously explained Storage systems parameters Auxiliaries
Revenues
and their precise technical parameters Energy Penalties
Discharge power over SOC Life time
and limits, as well as economic variables. Charge power over SOC EMS Capex
Calendar ageing Operation profile Opex
Finally, the battery supplier must con- Cycle ageing
Efficiency Energy storage system
tribute a deep understanding of ener-
PV/Wind integration
gy storage technology, including energy,
High resolution data
charge and discharge power capacities Site dependent
Sizing = optimizing Sizing = optimizing Sizing = optimizing
and the effect of aging on the battery
electrochemistry.
Combined with modelling, these fac- the optimum balance between revenues By minimizing temperature variation, the
tors determine the cost profile, which and costs during the installations entire cells and modules experience a constant
is made up of operating revenues and life time. rate of aging. In turn, this allows for pre-
penalties to balance lifetime costs, asset cise prediction of battery performance
lifetime costs, operating expenses and UNDERSTANDING BATTERY over its lifetime.
capital expenditures. PERFORMANCE Other important aspects are to ensure
Modelling is an iterative process that In addition to sizing the ESS correctly, accurate measurement of state of charge
starts with a first estimate of battery it is equally important to understand the (SOC), good SOC management and
specification that is combined with the factors that lead to high performance and high energy efficiency of the battery
other inputs to the EMS to deliver a cost a long and predictable life. system itself, as well as the power con-
profile. By repeating the process with a Good thermal management is the most verter and auxiliary systems such as
range of sizes, its possible to identify a crucial factor and ensures the tempera- cooling plant.
sweet spot, where the operator will find ture is consistent across the entire ESS. Together these extend ESS lifetime,
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Taking Charge
California Event Shows Potential of Energy Storage
A recent project in California may be the
first of its kindat least in the U.S.
in which large-scale batteries actually fired
role before converting back to absorbing
power from the functioning grid.
The biggest question is whether this is a
Turbines need to rotate at certain
speeds to generate the right frequency,
Molinari pointed out. If you have more
up a generator to restore grid operations game changer, said Matt Roberts, vice pres- production than load, the frequency goes
without a power feed from the transmis- ident of the Washington, D.C.-based Energy up. If more load then production, fre-
sion network or backup source, the utility Storage Association. No, but its one of the quency does down.
announced earlier this summer. new value streams this system can deliver. You need to put the energy somewhere
In May, the Imperial Irrigation Districts Juggling all of those streams is exceeding- to stabilize the grid, otherwise the fre-
(IID) new energy storage system provided ly complex, GEs Molinari pointed out. quency goes up and down too much.
the electricity needed to get its 44-MW Software and control systems must wade This reconciliation is crucial, of course,
combined-cycle natural gas turbine through all the immediate and intermit- because customers expect reliability from
going at the El Centro station. This is a tent inputs of a grid system which is pro- their grid. The black start capability could
big deal in the expansion of energy stor- cessing flow from renewables as well as prove crucial because those same custom-
facing resiliency ers also want renewables and resiliency.
challenges once When you design the grid, you design
a gap develops in it to be reliable; when something goes
electron flow. wrong, you go to resiliency, Roberts
IIDs energy stor- noted. Storage plays a role on both sides
age system went of those equations.
online in October Some of utility-scale energy storages
2016. The part- biggest projects have come online in the
ners in the project past year. GE and Southern California
include Coachella Edison (SCE) put a unique battery-gas tur-
Energy Storage bine hybrid systemcalled the LM6000
age capabilities, proponents say. Partners LLC, ZGlobal Inc. and GE Energy Hybrid Electric Gas Turbineinto opera-
From where I sit and what I know, Connections (now part of GE Power). tion into generation units at Norwalk and
Im not aware of anybody else able and Historically, an operative grid would Rancho Cucamonga in March.
willing to do so, said Mirko Molinari, be restarted by a backup diesel generator Black starting means not only that
manager of distributed energy resource or some other form of generation, giving energy storage gets deployed on the grid,
development for GE Power, one of the the main turbine time to get going again but that it can get the grid going again.
partners in the IID energy storage proj- and synchronize and keep frequency Industry insiders believe that is a huge
ect. It was not a simple task. steady on the system. deal going forward.
Energy storage systems play several roles The IID event proved that energy stor- Batteries degradate; the point is how
within the grid connection, from load age essentially could jump start the sys- much and how do you use it, GEs
following to load smoothing to frequency tem. The process sounds something like Molinari said. You need to be able to do
regulation. Now, at least in this case and what happens to a car with a dead battery it in the context of the system and not
likely others to follow, it can play a startup but not exactly. just batteries as a standalone.
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Microgrids
ds
Mega-opportunity for Electric Utilities
Across North America, every week to the power grid, microgrids are gener- especially big-volume
g-volume and big-profit
seems to bring new proposals for micro- ating interest and excitement throughout entities like corporate
rate and institutional
gridsself-contained, neighborhood or the energy world, but with one signifi- campuses and industrial ial operation
operations, the
campus-sized energy delivery systems cant exception. more utility executives might fear for
that typically combine generation, often Traditional electric utilities might see their bottom line and viability. Some
renewable sources like wind and solar, microgrids as a threat to their revenue states are restructuring the tariffs that
and energy storage. streams and, in big enough numbers, regulate public utilities to foster develop-
Whether its to lower costs, go green their business models. The more cus- ment of microgrids and use of distribut-
or bolster resiliency by creating a backup tomers that sign up to use microgrids, ed generation.
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Panelboard Barriers
Schneider Electric introduced Fingersafe Shortwave Infrared Camera
IP2X per IEC 60529 Barriers for NQ Lighting Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc. (PIRT) announces
and Appliance Panelboards. Designed what it calls the worlds first and only MegaPixel (MP)
with service professionals safety in mind, shortwave-infrared (SWIR) camera with no ITAR export
Fingersafe, which provides plastic barriers restrictions. The newest camera in Princeton Infrareds
that cover main lugs or main and branch breakers, prevents family of SWIR imaging products to fall under the no ITAR
workers from touching electrical parts, reducing the risk restrictions umbrella is the 1280SciCam, with a 1280 x 1024
of accidental contact with energized components. U.S. image sensor on a 12 m pitch,
Bureau of Labor Statistics cites electrocution as one of the featuring long exposure times,
top four causes of construction industry deaths. Exposure extremely low read noise, 14-bit
to electricity kills more than 150 U.S. workers annually. digital output, and full frame
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on energized equipment. The barriers increase electrical ible to the SWIR (0.4. to 1.7 microns). It is available with a
workers ability to comply with OSHA CFR 1910.333(a)(1) variety of lens formats. PIRTs 1280SciCam and LineCam12
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TALK TRENDS
We expect to meet nearly The Department of Energy should launch a
45 percent of our retail program to manufacture and deploy flexible and
customers energy needs
transportable three-phase recovery transformer sets
through noncarbon emitting
resources in the coming
that can be prepositioned around the country.
National Academies, Enhancing the Resiliency of the Nations Electricity System
years.
Terry Bassham, CEO of Great Plains Energy (parent of
KCP&L) during recent earnings call. Indeed, millennials are far more likely than non-millennials to
have been in contact with their electricity provider within the
The electric power industry is last six months. Millennials prefer digital communication (59
percent have used this channel in the last six months) but they
one of the great American success will also leverage telephone and in-person contact. They want
stories and provides high-quality their interaction to be easy, so they will decide in the moment
jobs that empower our nations which channel is most convenient.
Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative, Spotlight on Millennials report
economic growth. Behind every
wall outlet or light switch, there is Energy utilities possess a physical network with a
a dedicated workforce focused on ubiquitous footprint underpinned by a data control
network. Most smart city visions call for one or both of
powering the lives of millions of these network capabilities.
Americans who rely on electricity ScottMadden, The Smart City Opportunity for Utilities
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