Energy Management Systems

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Smart Grids
Energy Management Systems
Cliff Walton Cliff_at_Cre8energy.co.uk
Planning energy for a sustainable world
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Sustainability and Climate Change The tipping
point
EMS Is now its time?

• Suddenly everyone is talking about climate
  change, green house gases, carbon emissions and
  sustainability governments, politicians,
  businesses, international agencies and the person
  in the street
• Every day brings a new proposal and headline
• The whole issue has moved from being one pushed
  by lobbyists who were either regarded as
  extremists or cranks to a mainstream political
  and business issue
• And this has happened very quickly

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The SmartGrids world
Primary Supply availability
Liberalisation
Innovation and Competitiveness
Reliability and quality
Markets
Security of Supply
Low Prices and efficiency
Capacity
Environment
Nature and Wildlife preservation
Climate Change
Pollution
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Is Smart metering itself enough?

• If there is a smart meter then utilities and
  customers can do a number of things more
  efficiently
• But only .
• if smart meter data can be used intelligently
• there is a 2-way real time flow of information
  between the utilities and the home
• and home appliances are integrated as well
• Then things can get really exciting and active
  Energy Management becomes a real opportunity
• The key to successful Energy Management is being
  able to capture the right data and then use it
  knowledgably

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What do we mean by Energy Management?

• Enabling energy consumers to
• Intelligently manage their energy consumption to
  optimise their cost and carbon impact
• Enabling energy suppliers, generators and
  distributors to
• Efficient and environmentally-friendly use of
  energy resources
• Reduce carbon emissions
• Manage their business efficiently and offer
  higher levels of customer service
• Develop and deliver innovative energy solutions
  to their customers
• Increase the efficiency of distribution networks
• Encourage and use distributed generation
  capabilities

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Energy Management across the Value Chain
Trading
Customer
Supply
Distribution
Transmission
Generation (Production)
Plant/Production Optimisation Emissions
Control/Trading Construction Planning
Time of day control Peak usage control
Network Planning Operations Management Losses and
Outage Mgmt Quality of Supply Microgen Control.
Revenue management Flexible Tariffing
Marketing Demand Management Customer
Service Microgen
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So whats the point

• - where are the benefits?

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For Customers - examples include

• accurate billing,
• information about energy consumption,
• broader range of tariffs,
• information about energy consumption of
  appliances and applications,
• intelligent control of load, facilitating
  micro-generation and local storage

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For Suppliers - examples include

• reduction in billing enquiries
• improved efficiency of meter reading and revenue
  management processes
• fraud management
• availability of detailed demand information
• direct control of load
• increased ability to devise innovative and
  attractive products

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For Large Generators- examples include

• improving operational efficiency
• plan operational and investment strategies
• develop demand-side management services

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For Small Generators- examples include

• development of local trading and local and
  national ancillary services for micro-generation
• alternative time of day settlement processes
• direct information about energy consumption of
  appliances and applications
• direct control of local load to match generation
  or vice-versa
• Increased ability to devise innovative and
  attractive products

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For transmission and distribution - examples
include

• Revenue protection, loss location, unused
  supplies/meters
• Fault reporting and management, connectivity
  modelling, quality of supply statistics accuracy,
  
• Overloading /capacity issues, power factor,
  imbalance, harmonics
• Voltage monitoring/control, load shaping, more
  accurate feeder load models, dynamic
  rating/loading of plant/lines,
• Distributed generation/storage - metering, local
  network trading, charging,
• Voltage control, adaptive protection, incipient
  fault detection/location

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So how do we get these benefits?
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EMS in the Smart Home
Domestic Appliances
Utility Energy Management Application Suite
Smart Meters
Home-Hub
Broadband Home-Utility Connection
microgen
Electronic Devices
In Home Wireless/PLC Network
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Energy Management Architecture
Customer Consumption Information Repository
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Putting it all together
Communications and Intelligence
Broadband
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Putting it all together another way
Communications and Intelligence
Broadband
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Putting it all together and yet another
Communications and Intelligence
Broadband
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Some Key Issues
Interoperability Common independent platforms
Broadband and small area communications Informa
tion and knowledge extraction
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EMS Summary

• Smart metering is only a subset of an overall EMS
  
• Energy management requires a 2-way information
  flow
• The key to EMS is understanding and managing
  information
• EMS technologies already exist is is the
  business case that needs developing?
• EMS can be applied to water and gas as well
• If Energy Management is delivered across the
  whole electricity value chain then everyone will
  win

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Questions

• What other benefits are there?
• How do you access all the benefits when the value
  chain is fragmented
• How can all the huge volume of data be
  effectively managed and turned into information?
• Is the industry ready to invest in energy
  management?

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Cliff Walton Cliff_at_Cre8energy.co.uk PPA/ Cre8 -
Stand 14
Planning energy for a sustainable world