Overview of SGIP Member Ameren Illinois' Smart Grid Test Bed

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Overview and Status of SGIP Member Ameren Illinois’ Smart Grid Test Bed

January 27, 2015


WELCOME

Stuart McCaffertyVice President of Technical OperationsSGIP Project Management Office (PMO)

January 27, 2015 Overview of Ameren Illinois’ Smart Grid Test Bed


Advancing grid modernization through standards innovation, gap filling, interface definitions, and the creation of test frameworks.Multi-stakeholder community with tight coupling to Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs).Disciplined, time-tested processes.

Accelerating Smart Grid Interoperability

The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) is a consortium that securely accelerates and advances Grid Modernization

through interoperability and the leadership talents of its members. SGIP prioritizes topics and issues set by the utilities,

independent power producers and industry members to solution and drives innovation of Grid Modernization.



Agenda• Welcome – Stuart McCafferty, SGIP• Main Presentation – Rodney Hilburn, Ameren

Illinois• Questions & Answers• Closing Reminders – Stuart McCafferty

This meeting, and all SGIP activities, are governed by SGIP By-laws and policies - Intellectual Property Rights Policy and Antitrust Policy.


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TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS CENTER

Rod Hilburn, Ameren IllinoisManager – Technology Applications Center





Technology Applications Center -BackgroundOn October 26, 2011, the Energy Infrastructure & Modernization Action (EIMA) was enacted which comprised a component requiring Ameren Illinois to construct or designate a Smart Grid Testing Infrastructure.

Technology Applications Center Services• Ameren Illinois will provide testing infrastructure resources and services from

which companies will be allowed to test programs, technologies, business models and other Smart Grid-related activities while connected to the grid.

Requirements from SB 1652 for Technology Applications Center• Provide companies with open unbiased opportunities for testing programs,

technologies, business models, and other Smart Grid-related activities while connected to the grid.

• Provide companies with opportunities to test and showcase Smart Grid technologies and services, especially those likely to support the economic development goals of the State of Illinois.

• Facility will include a live MISO (Midwest Independent System Operator) signal to provide testing capabilities of new utility scale applications associated with distributed wind and solar resources.



Technology Applications Center -BackgroundTechnology Applications Center Development• Design team review of legislative language as well as visits to Electric Power

Research Institute (EPRI), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), S&C Electric, University of Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and American Electric Power (AEP) determined that Ameren Illinois should construct or designate two locations to satisfy the laws requirements.

Technology Applications Center Construction• Constructed 69/12kV, 10.5 MVA substation.• Constructed two distribution circuits

– One to serve the Technology Applications Center site– One to serve live customers

• Constructed a substation control building to service the substation as well as a Home Area Network kitchen to test end use consumer devices.

• Established a fiber optic communications link with UIUC smart grid test bed.



Technology Applications Center -Capabilities• Energize equipment/sensors at voltage levels up to and including 69,000 volts• (Champaign) 12,000 volts (Decatur) to evaluate devices functional characteristics.• Data capture of electrical characteristics utilizing SEL-351A (PMU) and analysis of

data via SynchoWave Visualization and Analysis software.• Access to SCADA and Relay control functionality to enable evaluation, monitoring,

and controls of energized SG devices.• Provide a testing platform to allow for Cyber-Security testing, DNP3, ModBus, and• SCADA communications architectures commonly used by Utilities.• Test and evaluate Home Area Network (HAN) technologies.• Perform energized testing of AIU identified equipment for acceptability prior to

wide scale adoption.• Communications infrastructure necessary to receive live MISO signals.• Collaboration with UIUC on testing & validation procedures, as well as test plan

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DOE Cyber Security ProjectsResearch grants have been co-awarded under the FOA opportunities by the DOE for “Innovation for Increasing Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems” at the TAC.• (SDN) – Software-Defined Networking

SDN allows a programmatic change control platform, which allows the entire network to be managed as a single asset, simplifies the understanding of the network, and enables continuous monitoring in more detail.

• (PBCONF) – Secure Policy-Based Configuration FrameworkAn extensible, policy-based configuration framework to support the secure configuration and remote access of modern and legacy devices from a variety of vendors. The open-source framework will combine a policy engine with a translation engine to address the interoperability challenges of various remote access control methods and provide utilities with a single, organization-wide view of the security configuration for their power delivery devices.

• (ARMORE) - Applied Resiliency for More Trustworthy Grid OperationAn open-source system that can perform inspection of network packets and alarm on communication that does not comply with the specified ARMORE policy. ARMORE will be able to be configured to take action to block network traffic based on deep inspection of common substation communications protocols, such as DNP3.

• (CODEF) - Collaborative Defense of T&D Protection and Control Devices Against Cyber AttacksThis project will advance the state of the art for cyber defense methods for transmission and distribution grid protection and control devices by developing and demonstrating a distributed security domain layer that enables transmission and protection devices to collaboratively defend against cyber-attacks in an IEC 61850 environment.





























TAC informationhttps://www.ameren.com/illinois/map/tac



Technology Applications Center Benefits• Fulfill the Act’s intent to facilitate the development of

new Smart Grid technologies for promotion of new smart grid related products.

• Provides Ameren Illinois with infrastructure and resources to test, document and analyze new distribution equipment and services prior to wide scale adoption of these devices across Ameren Illinois service territory.

• Establishes opportunity for Ameren Illinois & University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to jointly research Smart Grid-related technologies through respective test beds.



QUESTIONS?Rod HilburnManaging Supervisor – Technology Applications [email protected]



SGIP Reminders• TOMORROW:

“Ask the Experts” on ITU-T

• NEXT WEEK at DistribuTECH in San Diego

• March 5: ENGAGE2015 in Phoenix. Cybersecurity and OpenFMB

• Webinars & Publications on SGIP.org under “Information Knowledge Base”

• Stay in Touch– Twitter: @SGIPNews– Join our LinkedIn Group– Sign up for SGIP Newsletter, The Conductor



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