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Location-Enabled Smart Grid Integration and Information Management StrategyBradley R. Williams, VP Product Strategy, Oracle Utilities

Oracle Spatial User Conference, Phoenix, AZApril 29, 2010

The Smart Grid Choice

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Agenda

• Quick review of Smart Grid defined • Smart Grid Challenges & Choices Survey:

North American Utility Executives' Vision for the New Decade

• Key issues related to Smart Grid • Smart Grid Operations Technology

Governance and Enterprise Information Management

• New Utility Configured Location-Enabled BI Tool

• Conclusions, Q&A


Smart Grid is…

• An electricity infrastructure that leverages:– Consumer & Utility Energy Technologies (ET)

• Solar, distributed generation, renewables, electricity storage, smart appliances, PHEVs

– Operational technologies (OT): Telecommunication, sensors, & controls• SCADA, wireless control networks, mesh networks, distribution automation

– Information technologies (IT)• Consumer energy management, home area networks/displays• Network management and analytics• Enterprise applications & Integration

• In order to…– Improve power distribution efficiency and reliability– Empower consumers to make smart energy choices– Address environmental concerns

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The Smart Grid:

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Generation Transmission Distribution Consumers

New Sensors / Distributed Computing onTransmission and Distribution Lines

alert operators, fix problems, integrate large-scale renewables generation

Smart Meters and Home Networks

help customers use energy wisely, mitigate peak

demand, integrate local renewables

A Utility Vision to Connect Customers to Electricity via an Information-Rich Network


Utility Smart Grid Technology Evolution

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Now10-years ago 10-years



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SummaryBills

DemandResponse

DistributionAutomation

AutomatedMeter Reading




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SummaryBills

DemandResponse




AdvancedMetering

Infrastructure

Time of UsePricing

Critical PeakPricing



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Planning & Pilots

SummaryBills

DemandResponse



Federal & State Policy


AdvancedMetering

Infrastructure

Time of UsePricing


AdvancedDistributionManagement

Systems

SmartMeters



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Planning & Pilots

SummaryBills

DemandResponse





AdvancedMetering

Infrastructure

Time of UsePricing



Systems

SmartMeters

Home AutomationNetworks

SmartAppliances

DistributedGeneration

ElectricityStorage

Regulatory Approvals



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Planning & Pilots

SummaryBills

DemandResponse





AdvancedMetering

Infrastructure

Time of UsePricing



Systems

SmartMeters

Home AutomationNetworks

SmartAppliances

DistributedGeneration

ElectricityStorage

MicroGridBalancing

Real-TimePricing

ElectricVehicles

Regulatory Approvals


“Reliability is the goal for us, but smart grid is an objective to reach that goal.”

Priorities for the Next Decade

• Utilities have customers in mind; say top priority is improving service reliability

Take Away: Reliability and Efficiency Trump All

Smart Grid Priorities for the Next 10 Years*

*Executives asked to select their top two priorities

U.S. utilities are more likely to focus on developing demand response and energy efficiency programs; Canadian utilities are more likely to focus on updating their physical infrastructure

#1 Improving service reliability and operational efficiency (45%)

#2 Implementing smart metering (41%)

#3 Developing demand response and energy efficiency programs (37%)

#4 Updating physical infrastructure (23%)

#5 Offering real time pricing options (17%)

#6 Increasing your renewable portfolio (15%)

#7 Optimizing existing business processes (14%)


Cost Concerns

Take Away: Greater Emphasis on Measuring and Communicating Benefits Required

• While smart grid is coming, executives grapple with transition costs

“[We need] clear and consistent work on the business case.”

21.00%

24.00%

30.00%

38.00%

43.00%Consumer reactions to rate increases

Cost to comply with environmental mandates

Rate recovery of the cost of improving grid infrastructure

Changing customer expectations/the need for better communication

Rate caps and regulatory disallowances

Universal Concerns: Utilities of all sizes and at all stages of smart grid adoption struggle with these issues

Top Concerns*:

*Executives asked to select the two most troublesome issues that keep them up at night


Survey Results: Getting There Together

Take Away: Share Lessons Learned; Build a Technology Foundation

• Utility executives say collaboration will drive smart grid success

Top Recommendations*:

#1: Sharing best practices with peers (80%)

#2: Developing an information architecture strategy (76%)

#3: Developing smart grid industry standards (71%)

#4: Publishing results of pilot projects and internal research (63%)

“Educate Consumers – It will be a learning process for everyone, including the utility companies and their employees.”

*Executives asked to select all that apply

EXISTING GRID

SMART GRID DEFINED


Key SmartGrid Operational Challenges

• Safe and Reliable SmartGrid Operations dependence on Systems and Data

• Exponential Growth of SmartGrid Data• Consumer Interaction• Manage Smart Grid Devices

– Device Registry– Device Asset Management – Distributed Intelligence– Configuration Management – Operations Technology Governance

• Integration of beyond-the-meter Consumer Energy Technologies with Grid Operations

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Growth and Dependence on Data

Application StrategyTo collect, store, and interpret data generated by devices on the grid through – Distribution Management System leverages real-time field sensors & controls to

optimize grid operations for reliability, efficiency, capacity constraints, losses, voltage profile, etc.

– Meter Data Management collects, stores and interprets from smart meters and becomes the gateway between customers and grid operations

Supported by– Geospatial Mashups to view assets

where they’re located on the network– Database to capture increasing

emphasis on network operational data– Tools for security authentication

activity monitoring and event processing

– Enterprise Service Bus for integration to head end systems

Source: EPRI - IntelliGrid

Smart Grids Must Manage the Exponential Growth of Data


Customer InteractionActive consumer energy management will be delivered via web portals, coupled with other technologies such as in-home displays and smart thermostats. Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing provides for prices to devices and energy consumption with information management supported by Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management.Supported by:

Oracle Utilities Network Management for communication and mapping of outages to customers, combined with Oracle Business Intelligence tools to disseminate grid data onto interactive dashboards;available for enterprise reporting, ad hoc queries, analysis, and data mining, proactive notifications, predictive intelligence and real-time decisions and recommendations


Communications Systems

Communications Systems

Network sensors& controls

Oracle SmartGrid Applications

Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing

Oracle Utilities Load AnalysisOracle Utilities

Network Management Oracle Work & Asset

Management

Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management

Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management

Oracle AIA / Fusion Middleware / SOA

Oracle Primavera

Oracle Spatial &

MapViewerOracle

AutoVueOracle

Database

Oracle Governance, Compliance & Regulation

Oracle EBS, PSFT, JDE, Hyperion

Oracle Analytics

SmartMeters

Oracle Utilities Meter Event Management

Oracle RAC

Oracle UCM

Oracle Exadata Database Server

ConsumerEnergy

Technologies

Oracle Customer Self Service

Oracle CEP


Oracle Utilities Operational Components

Real-TimeScheduler

Time-SeriesData

Historian

Real-TimeNetworkModel

NMS (GIS source)

• OMS

• Advanced DMS “Overarching Authority”

• Advanced Asset Risk Analysis

• Load Analysis/ Planning

• Short Circuit ArcFlash

MWM• All Crew Management

• Resource Management

• Equipment Scheduling

• Mobile Device Test Set Information Mgt

MDM• Interval Meter Reads

• Load Analysis

• Forecasting

• T&D Equipment Monitoring

• Fault Data

AssetRegister

WAM• Asset Information

• Device Configuration Management/Settings

• Version Control

• Work Flow


Oracle Utilities Network Management System“Overarching Authority” for SmartGrid Operations

• Real-Time Network Model• SCADA Integration• Outage Management• Advanced Distribution

Management– Self-Healing - FLISR– Predictive Loading– Automated Switching Plans– Integrated volt/var– Model/Manage Distributed

SG Devices– Risk Assessment

• MicroGrid Control Interaction


Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Mgt

• Optimize and track crew work schedule and routing (increased wrench time)

• Transferring field information (inspection, maintenance, construction red lines) using mobile device is more efficient and less error-prone than clerks transcribing from paper

• Field Settings Management, Test Set, and Work Flow

• Enables real-time workforce, asset condition assessment (e.g., storms and major events), and inventory optimization

• Supports enterprise information management (data quality)


Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management


Communications SystemsOracle Utilities

Load Analysis

Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management

SmartMeters

Oracle Utilities Meter Event Management

ConsumerEnergy

Technologies

Meter Data Management & Load Analysis

Population of all Customers

Industrial

Commercial

DomesticPV Domestic

PHEV Domestic

Load on upstream assets


Micro Grids – bringing it all together…


MicroGrid Core Functionality• Safety and Reliability priority• Automated Field Devices • Model and Manage MicroGrid

resources– Economically, Reliably, and

Securely (including charge/discharge storage)

• Normal & Islanded Operations• Real-Time integration with

– Oracle Utilities Network Management System OMS/DMS

– SCADA– Demand Response/Load

Mgt– Field Devices

NMSSCADA

MicrogridMaster

MicrogridMaster

MicrogridMaster

MicrogridMaster

FieldSCADADevicesDistributed

Energy CustomerDemand

Distributed Energy

Distributed Energy

Distributed Energy

FieldSCADADevices

FieldSCADADevices

FieldSCADADevices

Historian


Enterprise Information Management (EIM)…

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is an integrative discipline for structuring, describing and governing information assets, regardless of organizational and technological boundaries, to improve operational efficiency, promote transparency and enable business insight.

Source: Gartner

SG GatewayNMSWAM

MDMGIS / SpatialModel

MWM SCADA

CC&B

AIA SOA Suite = ESB + PIP (CIM)


Common Information Model (CIM)IEC 61968-1 Interface Reference Model (IRM) Provides The Framework For Identifying Information Exchange Requirements Among Utility Business Functions

Source: Xtensible Solutions


Information Management Business Process

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Example - Work Initiation


Enterprise Service Bus + Process Integration Pack (CIM)

GIS

X-Ref & Rules

BIOMS/DMSCIS Mobile

EAM SCADA EngineeringAnalysisMDM

Info Services

Asset Data Synchronization Example

Middleware

Fusion Middleware SOA Suite



GIS

X-Ref & Rules

BIOMS/DMSCIS Mobile


Info Services

GIS Operator Creates New Line Extension


Middleware




GIS

X-Ref & Rules

BIOMS/DMSCIS Mobile


Info Services

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Message



Middleware




GIS

X-Ref & Rules

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Info Services

CIM DataMapping

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Middleware




GIS

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BIOMS/DMSCIS Mobile


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applications updated with new facility information


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Utility need for Location-Enabled Tools

• Utilizes must manage a wide range of geospatially diverse…– Assets (including technologies)– Workforce– Customers

• New tools are needed to manage utility challenges– Major events: storms, earthquakes,

fire, floods, extreme temperatures – Higher customer expectations– Budgetary constraints– Aging assets– Aging workforce– Data quality– Operational dependency on

systems and data


Current Trends in Spatial Mashup Tools

• Are popular due to consumer and business applications– Google Earth– Microsoft Virtual Earth– Autodesk MapGuide– ESRI ArcGIS Explorer– Oracle Spatial MapViewer– others

• Improves utility asset and customer information – increases value of GIS without the need for additional GIS user

licenses. • Combined with Business Intelligence, provides richer

analysis and reporting capabilities. • Utilities and niche vendors have been configuring tools to

provide location-enabled operations, asset, and customer information.

• Provides a quick hit enabler to meet business performance objectives.


New Utility Location-Enabled BI Mashups•Network Management System (NMS)

–Leverage existing NMS extracts for OUBI–Extract NMS Network Model

•Business Intelligence – Leverage existing Outage History, Crew, Customer, and Network Asset Schemas

•Oracle eLocation Services•US Census Bureau – for ZIP code boundaries & demographics•NAVTEQ Sample Data – For City, county, state and country boundaries•Support other Weather, Traffic, and Lightning Data Feeds from 3rd party providers

•Support third party Enterprise Asset Management adapters


MapViewer-based User Interface

•Oracle Answers for charts, gauges and report elements•Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards•Oracle Business Intelligence integration with Oracle MapViewer•Overlay Weather data as available. Other data elements will be added as a future requirement

•Color code areas by criteria such as Outage Duration or Frequency, Customers Impacted

•Time-Based Views: Real-Time, Historical Playback, Forecasting•Future - Bring data from edge apps into OUBI Star Schemas, e.g. Asset condition (WAM) vs. Revenue (CC&B) or Equipment Caused Outage vs. Asset Maintenance by Region

•ETL tools for other third-party applications and services







Oracle – The Smart Grid Choice

• Data– World’s most scalable database– Tools to manage exponential data growth – Embedded spatial capability to visualize the Smart Grid

• Integration– Open standards– Pre-integrated for critical applications– Flexibility to respond to changing business requirements

• Operational Decision Support– World’s best Network Management System– World’s best Consumer Energy Management Solutions– World’s best Analytics


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