Smart Grids

February 23, 2018

AVANGRID Utility
of the Future

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AVANGRID Utility of the Future

Our Business Environment

Our Utility of the Future Vision

Our Technology Projects

Our Technology Platform

Our Guiding Principles

Our Next Steps

Electric Operations Impacts

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The Business Environment

50% Generation from  23% Decrease in  Increase Customer 

40 % GHG Reduction EV Adoption
Renewables Energy Consumption Choice

CT • DEEP, Demonstration Projects, Fuel Cells, 
Energy Storage, Microgrids, EV

NY • REV, DSIP, NWA, Demonstration Projects, 
Energy Storage, EV, Smart Community

ME • NTA, VO Project, Energy Future 
Committee, Microgrid Legislation, EV, AMI

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Our Utility of the Future Vision

The utility role is expanding to smart integrator,- owning

and operating a diverse and intelligent platform

Monitor & Control of 1000’s of Distributed

Grid  Energy Resources (DER)
Operations Real-Time Grid Optimization (voltage/var,
power flow, power quality)

Distributed  Integrated 
System  System 
Platform (DSP) Planning
Forecasting & planning to accommodate
DER
Leveraging DER as solution to network
problems

Granular time based consumption & pricing

Market 
Enablement New solutions for customers
Information for market providers

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Our Technology Projects

Technology Description
System‐wide implementation of AMI to provide customer usage by time interval and 
AMI, AMI‐OMS 
system data, and upgraded billing/back‐end systems, outage/restoration reporting, 
Integration, CIS Upgrade service voltage monitoring, behind‐the‐meter communications, etc.
Automate all substation feeder bays, line regulators, capacitors, sectionalizers, tie 
Grid Automation switches, sectionalizing switches, and single‐phase reclosers to enable control over 
network facilities. 
Enhance the Geographic Information System (GIS) grid model to provide DER and 
impedance data for planning (CYME) and operations (ADMS) to enable and enhance 
GIS Model Enhancement  interconnections analysis, hosting capacity analysis, circuit optimization, voltage/var 
control, and other functions.

Provide the capability to efficiently analyze and determine the DER hosting capacity, to 
accurately forecast load and DER generation, to incorporate distributed generation and 
Advanced Planning Tools energy storage into Integrated System Planning, and to communicate system data and 
accept interconnection requests.

Expand the energy control system to include distribution state estimator and power flow; 
Advanced Distribution  volt/var optimization (VVO); and Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR).  
Management System Subsequently, the DERMS will enable aggregated DER management and control, and the 
DER Market Management System will support DER transactions.

Enterprise Analytics  Develop a comprehensive Enterprise Analytics Platform to fully leverage the vast 
quantities of granular system and customer data that supports our vision for data 
Platform management, business intelligence, and advanced analytics. 

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Our Technology Platform Structure

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Our DSP Technology Roadmap

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Our Guiding Principles

Integrated  Leverage 
No islands of  No side 
corporate 
solution intelligence systems
systems

Include DER  Capital  Active 

VVO FLISR Planning  Network 
in solutions Alternatives Management

Common  from  into 

into Planning 
in GIS corporate  Operating 
Grid Model model
repositories model

Data is  Quality Governance Processes

Roles & 
Crucial Rules

System  Granularity
Market 
Aggregation
Flexibility Design

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Next Steps

Control  Distribution  Distribution  FO, FLISR, VVO,  Active Network  CMP Spectrum 

model power flow DERMS. MMS Management Project
System

AMI VVO Automation Behind the meter NY System Wide

Strategic line  Line regulators & 
Automation Substation Line reclosers
switches capacitors

GIS Quality Governance Processes Roles & Rules Survey

VO Pilot project  Closed‐Loop with 
VVO (EMT)
VVO
Smart Meters
VVO with DER

Outage 
Management 
2018 DSIP DERMS DER MMS
Technology 
Platform

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Outage Management Technology Platform
Integrate Islands of Outage Intelligence

Mobile 
Dispatch

Damage  Mobile GIS & 
Assessment Visualization

OMS
& Storm 
Automatic  Dashboard 
Vehicle  AMI
Location

Storm 
One ETR 
Management 
Process
Via GIS

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Appendices

For further reading and reference…

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Contents

Our Vision: The Ultimate Storm Management Toolkit

1. Mobile Functionality to support field outage and trouble crews as well
as field construction crews.
2. Integration of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to indicate
customers without power at the meter for trouble dispatch and outage
restoration.
3. Integration of Damage Assessment to provide electric trouble
incidents to Outage Management System (OMS) and Global SAP for
dispatching and crew repair.
4. Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) for internal and external crews to
support efficient dispatching.
5. Storm Management via the Geographic Information System (GIS)
and integrated with the OMS.
6. One Estimated Time of Restoration (ETR) process to be used across
all systems.
7. A single dashboard combining all storm information needed in an
emergency role.

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DER-Related Analytics Use Cases

•Disaggregation of net metering (behind‐the‐meter resources)
Load & DER Forecasting •Long‐term and short‐term

Hosting Capacity •Hosting Capacity Maps

•Modeling of installed and queued DER
Interconnection Analyses •Active Network Management*

NWA Analysis •Performance modeling & verification

•Outage Notifications*
Outage Management •Fault Isolation* and Restoration Switching with DER

•Data logging & reporting
Event Analysis •Verification of protection system operation

•CAIDI, SAIFI
Reliability Analysis •Causal analysis and remedial recommendations

•TLM*
Asset Management •Breaker duty tracking

•Planned (day‐ahead) & Unplanned (contingencies)
Grid Optimization •Voltage & var optimization*

•Verification against schedule or other dispatch directives
Metering &Verification •Interface with market management 

* Potential for peer-to-peer functionality

DERMs and Data Analytics to Support DER
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 Grid Optimization Use Case (DERMS)

Resource Optimization
• Optimization of  grid‐, supply‐, and demand‐side resources holistically
• Constraint management (day‐ahead, real‐time)*
• Recognition of each resources’ capabilities and limitations
• Tools to manage coming retail markets (energy, capacity, voltage/var, etc.)
• Tools to coordinate with NYISO (dual participation coordination, tie point aggregation)
• Management of planned and unplanned conditions
• Fast (low latency), flexible, granular (by stage of regulation and by zone of switching)
• Automatic dispatch directive generation
• Automatic dispatch directive execution
• Metering & performance verification
• Compensation/penalty management
• Voltage & var optimization*
• Robust logging
• Reporting by exception

DERMs and Data Analytics to Support DER

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Data Sources for DERMS & Analytics Platform Integration

• Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

• Grid Controllers (switches, reclosers, regulators, capacitors)
• Protection & Control Relays
• DER Inverters & Controllers
• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• Customer Information System (CIS)
• Outage Management System (OMS)
• Billing and Payment System (settlement)
• Asset Database
• Grid Model (including current or planned configuration)
• NYISO & Neighboring Control Centers (ICCP)
• Aggregators’ DERMS
• Active Network Management System (ANM)
• Metering & Verification (M&V)
DERMs and Data Analytics to Support DER
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