donny helm director – technology strategy and architecture oncor electric delivery november 1,...
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Donny HelmDirector – Technology Strategy and ArchitectureOncor Electric Delivery
November 1, 2012
The Challenges of Establishing A Common AMS View In Texas
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Oncor’s Role in Texas
Generators Transmission & Distribution
RegulatedCompetitive
Retail Electric Providers (REP)
Competitive
Generators Transmission & Distribution
RegulatedCompetitive
Retail Electric Providers (REP)
Competitive
3,700 employees serving over 3.1 million homes & businesses
The largest regulated transmission & distribution utility in Texas – 6th largest in the U.S.
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Support energy conservation strategies
Provide environment for customers to make informed decisions
Improve reliability & efficiency of system
Create opportunities for customers, Retail Electric Providers & Third-Parties
TDSP Advanced Metering System (AMS) – Strategic Objective
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TDSP Advanced Metering System (AMS) - Requirements
Provide 15-minute VEE (e.g. Validate, Edit, Estimate) data to customers, REPs,
Third- Parties and ERCOT
Provide 2-way meter transactions (e.g. disconnects / re-connects, on-demand reads etc.)
Provide secured connections and services to Home-Area-Network (HAN) devices
via ZigBee SEP 1.0 (Up to 5 devices directly connected to the meter)
Provide a common Web Portal for REPs, customers, and customer authorized
3rd Parties (e.g. GUI and APIs)
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Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) Project #34610 – Implementation Project Related to Advanced Metering
The purpose of this project is to identify and implement changes needed in retail and wholesale markets as a result of advanced metering. Issues relating to settlement, the Smart Meter Texas web portal, security, the Home Area Network (HAN), demand response, and customer education, among others, will be studied in this project.
Working Groups
• AMIT Steering Committee• Projects Working Group• Operations Working Group• Cyber Security Working Group
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TDSP Advanced Metering System (AMS) – State of Texas Regulations
Public Utility Regulatory Act – 1999 – Texas Deregulation
Section 39.101
• Prior to Customer Choice in 2002, these key retail customer protections were established that Entitled a Customer:
• to Privacy of customer consumption and credit information
• to Accuracy of metering and billing
Public Utility Regulatory Act - 2005 – Texas Advanced Metering
Section 39.107
• All Meter Data, including all data generated, provided, or otherwise made available, by advanced meters and meter information networks, Shall Belong To A Customer, including data used to calculate charges for service, historical load data, and any other proprietary customer information.
• A Customer may Authorize Its Data to be provided to one or more retail electric providers under rules and charges established by the commission.
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Over 6.1 million advance meters deployed
Over 2 million automated market-driven reads & remote disconnects / reconnects
Over 8 million vehicle miles saved
Over 13,000 Home-Area-Network (HAN) devices deployed with SEP 1.0
Over 39,000 residential users registered with the Smart Meter Texas portal (approx. 250 per week being added)
Over 6.1 million meter reads processed daily versus monthly
Over 585.6 million 15-minute interval reads processed daily
Meter Read Success Rate (98-99.5%)
ERCOT 15-minute Settlement
Advanced Metering System (AMS) – Texas Deployment Results-to-Date
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Customer Enablement – Oncor Services
Oncor support for Electric Vehicles
Give-away as part of Biggest Energy Saver program
Oncor support for HAN devices
24 devices from 16 manufacturers have been validated with Zigbee Smart Energy Profile 1.0
Two HAN devices were used for a 500 account demonstration
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Customer Enablement – Smart Meter Texas portal
Understand energy usage
Better manage usage
Lower electric bills
Provision HAN devices
Export functionality for additional
analytics
The web portal launched March, 2010
provides customers tools to:
www.smartmetertexas.com
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Customer Enablement – Third-Party Services, Tools & Programs
Retail Electric Provider
Bill Analysis
Summary e-mail
Mobile applications
Third-Party
Bill and Consumption Analysis
Home Energy Management Solutions
Vehicles & Appliances
Distributed Generation
Home Energy Management Solutions
Vehicles & AppliancesDistributed Generation
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Demand Response (DR) Potential in ERCOT
Source: FERC 2009 National Assessment of DR, page 42
FERC estimates >18 GW of DR potential in Texas by 2019
Attributed to high peak demand
This would represent 20-25% of total ERCOT peak!
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Oncor AMS Environment – Integration Overview
Enterprise Service Bus
API API
APIAPI
Ecologic Analytics
MDMS
CISMAXIMO
MIS
ODS
API
Web Support
Tools
API
L+G Command
Center
Meter and HAN Transactions
Meter Data Replication
(ETL)
Common Meter Data
Smart Meter Texas Portal
Security
API
ERCOT
Meter And HAN Transactions
15 Minute Settlement
Data
ETL ETL
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Smart Meter Texas Portal – Overview(Approx. 170 Functional Requirements)
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The Texas AMS Landscape
Consumers (7.2 million &Potential 36 million HAN
Devices)
Retail Electric Providers (90+) Third-Parties (90+)
ERCOTTDSP IT System
(4)
SMART METER TEXAS
Host (IBM)
( Monthly Meter Readings and Daily 15 Minute VEE Data )
Daily 15 Minute Settlement
Transactions and Market Transactions
Meter / HAN Services
( Daily and 15 Minute Meter Data)
Optional Path for Retail
ElectricProvider
HAN Services
Historic Daily 15 Minute VEE Meter Data and limited Meter / HAN
Services
Meter / HAN Services (thru Oncor system) and Daily 15 Minute VEE Meter Data
Daily and 15 Minute Meter Data
Market Transactions
Perform HAN Transactions
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Texas AMS Environment – HAN Testing
MDMSMeter Head-End
Smart Meter Texas Portal
Third-Party
Consumer Electric UtilityOncorAEPCNP
TNMP
Utility ConsortiumOncorAEPCNP
TNMP
Third-PartyREP
Energy MgmtOther
ANSISEP 1.0
ANSI (C12.xx)SEP 1.0
ANSI (C12.xx)SEP 1.0
UBPSEP 1.0
SEP 1.0Utility B.F.
T.P.B.F.SMT B.F.
Cons. B.F.
SEP 1.0T.P.B.F.
SMT B.F.Cons. B.F.
SEP 1.0T.P.B.F.
SEP 1.0 SEP 1.0
SEP 1.0End-to-End Business Functions
SEP 1.0Utility B.F.
T.P.B.F.SMT B.F.
Cons. B.F.
SEP 1.0Utility B.F.
T.P.B.F.SMT B.F.
Cons. B.F.
Oncor – IBM Integration Team IBM Dev. TeamZigFest
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ZigBee Smart Energy Specification
The nature of the Standard Specification:
“All SE messages/directives (Demand Response events, price publishing, messaging) are assumed to be created by the same entity, e.g., utility or energy management entity, or set of coordinated entities.”
The nature of the Texas Market:
• There are no limits on the number of HAN Service Providers that could participate in sending HAN messages to customers’ HAN devices
• HAN Service Providers have options of communicating with customers’ HAN devices either through the SMT / TDSP systems or through the Internet – controls placed in one environment will not affect what is done from the other environment
Versus
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Texas Market HAN Operational Considerations
Load Control messages submitted by one Service Provider may be overridden by a second Service Provider
Load Control message might target an unintended device
Load Control messages submitted by one Service Provider may override a Pricing Message of a second Service Provider
Pricing Message submitted by one Service Provider may override a Pricing Message of a second Service Provider
Service Providers will not be able to target specific HAN devices with Pricing messages
Service Providers will not be able to target specific HAN devices with Text messages
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Challenges / Lessons Learned
Managing Meter Firmware
Managing data volumes / retention / transport
Managing solution scale (Network, Communications, Servers etc.)
Managing deployment schedules
Managing Customer experience and communications
Managing solution as a SCADA system
Managing convergence of IT and OT
Managing security and Customer privacy requirements
Managing employee skills
Understanding meter functionality
Understanding how to use the new data
Understanding how to use the new tools
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Challenges / Lessons Learned
Understanding evolving Industry Standards and associated gaps
Understanding Regulatory requirements and associated gaps
Understanding new Customer programs
Understanding new Vendor programs / products
Managing Change
Identifying skills for higher order functions
Identifying a common set of requirements for all parties
Collaboration
Establishing a common implementation philosophy
Using a common set of standards based on different technologies
Establishing a baseline platform capable of expansion
Lack of conformance product / end-to-end testing programs
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Item to Consider
It is no longer just about managing customers, meters or assets. It is about establishing new services and processes across business functions and markets.
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Questions ???