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Leveraging Utility FTTH for Smart Grid and Community Economic Development
February 28, 2018Jarrod Beeson – NineStar ConnectJeff Richardson – Tantalus Systems
About TantalusTantalus is a technology company that helps utilities make smart decisions.
AMR to AMI Migration
Multi-Application Platform
Edge Computing and Analytics
Flexible Network
The Tantalus Difference
Low Latency Interval Data
Unmatched Growth
Tantalus serves over 140 cooperative & municipal utilities representing millions of endpoints and consumers across North America and the Caribbean.
140+
85+ New customers since 2013
55+TUNet Multi-Application Users
About NineStar Connect
• 18,800 combined customers/members • 14,700 electric meters• 855 miles of line over 3 counties• 243 sq. mile electric service territory• 17.3 meters per mile• Merger between Central Indiana Power and Hancock Telecom
on Jan. 1, 2011
Brief History
• 1895 – Hancock Telecom founded as telephone company• 1936 – Central Indiana Power founded as an electric co-op• 1983 – Both co-ops created the local cable TV franchise that was
sold (regrettably) 10 years later to what eventually became Comcast• 2002 – Hancock began fiber deployment• 2009 – First discussions about merger • 2011 – Co-ops merge with 13,000 combined members• Today –100% of ILEC customers on FTTH
Fiber Creates Overlapping Goals
• Electric co-op -- Focus on deploying smart grid and AMI technology through fiber.
• Telephone co-op -- Focus on selling additional services to new customers.
Products and Services• Power• Voice• Broadband• IP video• Home security• Smart Connect• Water & sewer
Fiber Construction
Fiber construction
• Initial deployments were 100% FTTH• AMI deployment: build fiber to collectors only and homes passed• Fiber islands
AMI Deployment
Collector installation
Tantalus System Benefits
• Outage notification• Quicker response to outages• Power quality monitoring• Automated meter reading• Time of use• Load management• Water integration• Prepaid metering
Electric Territory Preservation
• Electric service territory lost to annexation• Indiana Senate Bill 309 introduced in 2014 to change territory law
Electric Territory Losses
• Over 5,800 acres of service territory since 1983• 4,200 meters• Gross revenue over $16 million annually
Electric Territory Preservation
• Support from Indiana Electric Cooperatives and five IOUs• SB309 passed in 2015
Why is NineStar offering water/sewer services?
• Instances of wells being contaminated• Growing population strains health of private wells
• Instances of no septic systems (connections directly into field tiles)• Instances of failing septic systems• 2/3rds of Hancock County doesn’t have a water/sewer provider
• Lost economic development opportunities• Need for local control and input on new development• Ability to gain density to keep existing electric and communications
services affordable
What service will be offered?
• It will depend on location and need• Some locations will just have water or sewer; some locations will
have both• Anywhere service is offered, fiber optics will be installed• NineStar intends to build ‘smart water & sewer systems’ that will be
efficient & provide members with usage data
How will NineStar offer these services?
• Rome wasn’t built in a day• Over 20 years to build out electric territory• Over 15 years to build out fiber optic network
• Areas most likely to be built first• Where new investments are coming into area• Where there is the greatest need and/or desire for service
All Services Combined
Riley Village84 homes
Tantalus Water AMI Integration
Tantalus Water AMI Integration
Economic Development
• County Materials construction• Sapphire Springs subdivision• Philadelphia subdivision
Economic DevelopmentMaxwell School
WWTPCounty Materials
Economic Development
New Subdivision
Sewer construction project
Planned Developments
Contact Information
Jarrod Beeson Jeff RichardsonDirector of Special Projects Solutions Marketing ManagerNineStar Connect Tantalus2243 E. Main Street 1130 Situs Court, Suite 230Greenfield, IN 46140 Raleigh, NC 27606317-326-3131 [email protected] [email protected]