Mr Charles Popple Chairman, Smart Grid Australia101110).pdfMr Charles Popple Chairman, Smart Grid Australia Smart Grid Australia Inc Smart Grid Australia (SGA) is a non-profit, non-partisan

Overview of Smart Grid activities in Australia

Mr Charles Popple

Chairman, Smart Grid Australia

Smart Grid Australia Inc

Smart Grid Australia (SGA) is a non-profit, non-partisan alliance dedicated to an enhanced, modernised electric system.

This alliance holds meetings, organises committees, assists withgovernment initiatives, and issues communications to accelerate progress. It seeks to be an important source of ideas, inspiration, and influence for any organisation interested in this sector.

Modelled on the USA GridWise Alliance, SGA is a member of the international trade alliance Global Smart Grid Federation

Members:

• Electricity utilities

• Telecommunications companies

• Vendors

• Energy investors

• Federal, state, and municipal agencies

• Research organisations

• Non-profit energy organisations

Smart Grid

ecosystem

centric

Workgroups:

• Policy

� Smart Grid Smart City (SGSC) $100m grant

� Energy Efficiency Task Force submission and presentation

• R&D

� Smart Grid Roadmap – paper released

� Training study group

• Intelligent Networking

� National Broadband Network – paper released

� Security

• Standards – member of Smart Grid Australian Reference Group

• Consumer

Australian Energy Networks:

• National Energy Market (NEM)

� Includes Eastern and Southern States

� 260+ Registered Generators,

6 Transmission Networks,

13 Distribution Networks

� In geographical span, the

largest interconnected power

system in the world (>5000km)

• Voltage Levels

� Transmission (500kV/330kV/275kV/220kV)

� Distribution (33kV/22kV/11kV)

Source: ESAA website: www.esaa.com.au

What’s “unique” about Australian networks:

• Geographical coverage and customer density

� USA Population 307M, Australia 22M

� Could have >100km of distribution

network serving <50 customers

• Extreme weather conditions

� Cyclones and flooding in the North

� Intense heat in the interior

� Catastrophic bushfires in the South

• Fully contestable markets in Victoria

� Disaggregated, privatised energy supply industry

� Extremely active competitive retail market

National/State and Industry initiatives:

• Distribution network reliability incentive scheme

• Victorian Advanced Metering Infrastructure program

• Solar Cities

• National Broadband Network

• Smart Grid Smart City grant

• Victorian EV trials

Network Reliability Incentive regime:

The incentives of the scheme applied in Victoria (applied up to 2010) are in the

form of:

• A service term (S factor) in the price control formula,

giving it the form of (1+CPI)(1-X)S.

(If a distributor provides an average level of reliability better than the target levels,

then its distribution tariffs will rise in subsequent years. If the reliability level is

worse than the target levels, then the distribution tariffs will fall. A new Service

Target Performance Incentive Scheme applies in various jurisdictions from 2009)

• Guaranteed service level (GSL) payments to customers for low reliability.

(Customers entitled to receive a credit if they experience more than the specified number

of sustained or momentary interruptions1 in a calendar year, or if they experience a

cumulative supply interruption time longer than the specified number of hours)

Source: ESC and AEMO websites: www.esc.vic.gov.au and www.aer.gov.au

Victorian AMI initiative:

• 2006 Start

� Victorian Government developed Cost-Benefit Analysis

� Replacement of 3m meters

• To date

� 319k meters replaced (Sep10)

� Consumer communications lagging rollout

• Hence delayed TOU and signal functionality anticipated Jan12

• Technology aspects

� Meters and systems to meet functionality and service requirements such as:

• Remote de-energise / energise

• Remote interval data read (48hrs of 1/2hr data)

� Communication solutions:

• 700k meters WiMax (higher SG functionality opportunities)

• 2.3m meters mesh radio solutions

Source: www.new.dpi.vic.gov.au/smart-meters/program-background/victorian-ami-program

Solar Cities initiative:

Australia's Solar Cities are: Adelaide, Alice Springs, Blacktown, Central Victoria, Moreland,

Perth and Townsville.

Each Solar City integrates energy options for homes and businesses, including use of solar

technologies, cost reflective pricing trials that reward people who use energy wisely, and

community education about better energy usage in an increasingly energy-reliant world.

In particular, the program aims to:

• Demonstrate the environmental and economic effects of combining

cost reflective pricing with the widespread use of solar technology,

energy efficiency and smart meters,

• Find out what barriers exist regarding energy efficiency, electricity

demand management and the use of solar technology, among

businesses and householders in different parts of Australia,

and test ways to deal with these barriers.

Source: Solar Cities website: www.climatechange.gov.au/government/programs

National Broadband Network (NBN):

• NBN Co plans to deliver the best, most cost effective infrastructure

across Australia using a combination of fibre, wireless and satellite technologies.

• NBN Co will design, build and operate a wholesale-only, superfast broadband

network that will provide speeds of 100 Megabits per second to 93% of

Australian premises and 12 Megabits per second to 7%, subject to final design.

• For most premises, NBN Co will use either Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON)

or Ethernet Point to Point fibre and will link some premises by wireless or

satellite, depending on location and geography.

Source: NBN Co website: www.nbnco.com.au

Smart Grid Smart City Initiative:

Source: Smart Grid Smart City Forum, Homebush, 1 September 2010, Mr Graeme Marshall










Source: Smart Grid Smart City Forum, Homebush, 1 September 2010, Mr Adrian Clark

Victorian Electric Vehicle Trials:

Source: Victorian Electric Vehicle Trial Design Discussion Paper – Victorian Department of Transport

Highlighting an Australian utility

Smart Grid achievements:

Network diagram courtesy of EPRI

Analytics(Transforming data into actionable information)

Enterprise Data EnvironmentEnterprise Data Environment

Common Interfacing Layer

Presentation Layer

Business Processes

CommunicationsNetworks

� Substation Automation

� Increased Sectionalising

(with remote control)

� Distribution Feeder Automation

(> 12 Min USAIDI savings already)

� Engineering Data Gathering WAN

� Large Investments in

Fibre-Optic Bearers

� Point-to-Multipoint Radio Network

� WiMAX Network

� Distributed Intelligent

IP environment

� Enterprise Application

Integration (eAI)

� Condition Monitoring Apps

� Dynamic Plant Ratings

� Predictive Response

� Advanced Metering Infrastructure� SCADA Consolidation

� Network Management Automation

(GIS, DMS, OMS)� Asset Condition Monitoring Portal

� webFG SCADA

� Outage Information Centre

� Real-time automated reporting� Asset Management Systems

consolidation

� Mobility

(asset inspection)

� Electric Vehicles

� HAN research

� Fuel Cell Appl.

Source: SP AusNet

Highlighting an Australian utility Smart Grid

achievements: Feeder Automation

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Switch

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CB

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Switch

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System

Normal

During

Fault

Sequence

Automation

Controller

Automation

Controller

Automation

Controller

After

Automation

Action

� Developed In-House & Implemented

� >170 CAR Schemes in service

� >60 Transfer Schemes in Service

� >12 Minutes of USAIDI Savings to Date (<1 minute supply restoration)

5

10

15

USAIDI Saving

(minutes)

20

25

2008 2009 2010

Automated response

only

Automated response

+

accelerated

manual control

After Feeder Loop

Automation

Source: SP AusNet


achievements: Spatial Aerial Survey

Aircraft position

Networks to be inspected

Previous flight path

Other network assets

Steel network

Flight line

Photo position and number

Database table

Effective asset inspection

Highly efficient process

Incorporate in ongoing asset management activities

Source: SP AusNet


achievements: Image processing

� Collaborative work between SP AusNet,

MONASH University & Paton Air

� GPS/GIS/Laser Enabled Digital Image Capture

� Advanced Digital Image Processing Techniques

� Automatic Detection of Defects, Abnormalities

� Rapid Inspection of Specific Asset Categories

(spacers, dampers, joints etc.)

Source: SP AusNet

Smart Grid challenges and opportunities in

Australia:

Electric

Vehicles

Energy

Storage

Advanced

Metering

Infrastructure

Distributed

Generation

Intelligent

Grid

• Customer engagement

• Network security and reliability

• Climate change impact

• Effective integration of

Distributed Energy Resources

• Replacement of ageing network

assets

• Data/information management


Australia:

• High growth driven by governmental incentives

• Dominant sector is grid connected distributed installations

• Network service provider funding of feed-in tariffs and network support

• Power quality issues (overvoltage, power factor etc.)

• High growth driven by governmental incentives

• Dominant sector is grid connected distributed installations

• Network service provider funding of feed-in tariffs and network support

• Power quality issues (overvoltage, power factor etc.)

APVA Report

Australia

Cumulative

Installed

Capacity (MWp)

1992 2000 2009

180

100

0

Year

Solar PV


Australia: 4000

02009 2015

Year

Planned Wind Farm

Connections in Victoria

(MW)

• Forecast growth in wind generation (mainly large scale)

• Small scale growth in CHP, Hydro, Tidal, Geo-thermal, Biomass

• Financial viability achieved with incentives

• Opportunities for distributed gas/diesel generators coupled with energy

storage for network support

• Forecast growth in wind generation (mainly large scale)

• Small scale growth in CHP, Hydro, Tidal, Geo-thermal, Biomass

• Financial viability achieved with incentives

• Opportunities for distributed gas/diesel generators coupled with energy

storage for network support


Australia:

Source: OUR DEMAND: REDUCINGELECTRICITY USE IN VICTORIA THROUGH DEMAND MANAGEMENT: Akaash Sachdeva and Philip Wallis

Establishing

Smart Grid

ecosystem

momentum

and

alignment

Thank you for listening,

May you enjoy the Smart Grid Journey!

www.smartgridaustralia.com.au

Mr Charles Popple

[email protected]

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