The Electric Industry:Key Issues Shaping the Transformation

Wanda RederChief Strategy Officer, S&C Electric Company 

2017 IEEE President‐Elect Candidate

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies ConferenceSeptember 7, 2016

Minneapolis, MN 

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S&C Delivers Integration Solutions

Grid EdgeStorage

10’s of kWSubstation Batteries

10’s of MW

Distributed Intelligence and Control

Micro‐grids

Solar Integration

Dynamic VARs

Single Phase Cutout MountedRecloser

Issues Shaping the Clean Energy Transformation 

Technologies:• Energy storage• Power electronics • Distributed intelligence• Adaptive protection• Layered architecture• Self‐diagnostic, healing• Data, cyber, analytics

So what?  It Changes How We… 

Make Energy: • More distributed supply• Accommodate growth

Move Energy:• Flexible, intelligent, resilient• Increase visibility 

Use Energy: • Integrate end‐use activity• Empower customers

Source:  IEEE GridVision 2050

Rate of Solar installations per minute in the US is declining

2014: One installation every 2.5 minutes

Google Map Snapshot of IkeaFrisco, Texas

Changes how we “Make It”: Price, Behavior

Storage costs are following solarMore Electric Vehicles are Coming

Incremental capacity is coming from customers

“Move It” Old Grid

“Move It” Modern Grid

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Bi‐directional power flow is driving circuit design changes

EPB Chattanooga’s Smarter Smart Grid

EPB Chattanooga500,000 customer municipal

Smart GridStarted with fiber everywhere

Smart Switches1200 units on all 12kV

Interruptions Avoided: 2011 - 2014

5:31:09 PM

11,258 customers without power

5:31:37 PM

10,000 customers restored

5:31:52 PM

800 more customers restored

5:37:47 PM

All customers restored

Storm Jan, 2013

Source: David Wade, EPB Chattanooga, presented for DOE, Dec. 2014 “EPB’s Smarter Smart Grid”

New Investor Models and Markets

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7MW/3MWH Energy Storage4.2 MW PV Plant 

Half Moon Ventures owns‐operates solar and storage for the Minster, Ohio community 

“Using It” Changes by Enabling Customer Choice with Individualized Services

Source: The Edison Foundation Institute for Electric Innovation, Thought Leaders Speak Out: Key Trends Driving Change in the Electric Power Industry, December 2015

ONCOR Microgrid Example

• Founded on the Brattle report recommending 5000 MW of storage in ERCOT

• Utilizes distributed generation – two solar photovoltaic arrays– a microturbine– two energy storage units – four generators

• Energy storage is the backbone

A showcase to promote utilities to rate base energy storage batteries for distribution system support and wholesale market services

Many Opportunities Remain

• Regulatory, ownership, price issues

• Re‐defining the roles and processes: planning, design, operations  

• Standards for interoperability 

• Develop workforce competencies

• Capability for dynamic operations

• Utilize lots of data, varying time domains

• Overcome security obscurities

AnIntegrated

Grid

A Modern Grid is Integrated

Graphic Source: Mark McGranaghan, EPRI “International Game Changers” Denver CO July 2015

In Closing…

Wanda RederChief Strategy Officer - S&C Electric Company

Wanda.reder@sandc.com

• Transformation underway

• Rethinking how we:  

– Make it

– Move it

– Use it

• Integration, distributed intelligence, renewables, storage are key 

• More to do:  a resource www.smartgrid.ieee.org

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