2. The Smart Grid and Revolutionary Change
• There is no “smart grid in-a-box”
• Changes the way utilities operate
their business
– Real time management of the
Distribution Network
– Real time management of Metering
and Measurement
– Real time management of Customers
• Utilities need to think about their
application portfolio in a different
way… operational applications
need to become enterprise
applications
3. Digital Information
• Est. 700% increase in
data
• What to keep, what to
discard
• Where is it required
across the organization
• Interoperability of
applications to avoid data
duplication
• Overarching authority for
key systems
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4. Standards
• Can we afford to wait
• Consider base principles
and move forward
– Open architecture
– Interoperability
• Understand the
enterprise value of data
• Drive a enterprise
architecture based on
CIM
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5. Innovations – Emerging applications
MICROGRID
• Monitor substation load
• Monitor DER assets
• Issue dispatch
commands
• Monitor and Track
Responses
• Store and Analyze data
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6. Innovations – Emerging applications
EV SUPERVISORY
SYSTEM
• Monitoring Vehicle and
Battery Information
• Control the Supply of
Electricity
• Control the Supply of
Electricity
• Real time pricing & Load
Information
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7. Innovations – Emerging applications
SPATIAL ANALYTICS
• Rich land base with Oracle
Spatial MapViewer
• Spatial mashup of utility
assets (Wires/Pipes:
Switches/Breakers/Valves:
Transformers/Pumps)
• Add Event Status and other
events (Outages, Calls,
weather, lightning, traffic,
asset performance and risk
management)
8. Rethinking today’s applications
MOBILE WORKFORCE
MANAGEMENT
Boundary-less scheduling to
allow for crew optimization
Dynamic real time
scheduling to get more done
with same resources
Adoption of feature rich and
lower cost technologies Leak.
Spa
rk
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9. Governance must be resolved…
• Smart Grid is bringing IT IT Operational Technology (OT)
and OT closer together CIO who owns this?
• Smart Grid establishes a Enterprise
Enterprise
Vertical Centralized Distributed
3rd silo within the utility - CT
resource Geographic Supervisory Programmable
info system control and Logic Controllers
planning
(GIS) data
• Smart Grid systems
(ERP)
Human Outage acquisition
(SCADA)
(PLC)
Advanced
increasingly use modern IT resources management
(OMS) Energy mgmt.
Protection
Relays
platforms, security, and Enterprise system
(EMS) Substation
asset Integration
protocols management
(EAM)
Automatic
generation Sensors: e.g.
PQ Monitors and
control
• The lack of a successful IT/ Customer
information (AGC)
Fault Indicators
Telecoms
OT governance impedes
(CIS) Distribution
Energy Asset Analysis Meters
(DAA)
performance trading & risk
management
Customer
Gateways
(ETRM)
• Impact on security and
compliance Corporate IT network Control network(s)
Source: Gartner
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