CityWorks: Electric Reliability & Advanced Meter Fort Collins To switch the image, click on the flag pic and delete it. Insert or paste another picture (Please note: too low of resolution and it will not look very good, too much and the file size will get very large) and then send it to back so that it goes behind the header and footer. CityWorks: Electric Reliability & Advanced Meter Fort Collins Pablo Bauleo 5-24-15

Electric Grid Basics Customers Fort Collins Utilities Platte River Power Authority Customers Distribution Transmission Generation 115 – 230 kV 13.2 kV

Outage Impact & Reliability Needs 1960s: Electric clock would be late 1970s: Electronic clock would blink “12:00” 1980-90s: Computers would reboot Point out how accustom we are to have power and how much the economy depends on it 2000s: E-Commerce & Stock Markets collapse Northeast blackout of 2003  $6 billon loss

Fort Collins Reliability Statistics (1/1/2013 – 12/31/2013) Number of outages: 91 ASAI: 99.9982% How reliable the system is Average System Availability Index SAIDI: Goal: 30.00 or lower (US average: 240) If all customers had been out of power they would have been in an outage for 9.5 minutes System Average Interruption Duration Index CAIDI: Goal: 45.00 or lower (US average: 160) Customers that experience a power outage were out an average of 32 minutes Customer Average Interruption Duration Index

Advanced Meter Fort Collins $36M total cost Electric: $32M $16M from Department of Energy grant Water: $4M 11-year payback from operational savings (e.g., meter reading) Meter installations started early 2012 through Q4 2013. Supports CO2 reduction goals

Communication Network

Early System-Level Results This heat map shows an aggregation of low voltage alarms from a neighborhood in our Initial Deployment Area

From Reactive to Proactive Zooming in closer revealed the meters that sent the low voltage alarm. Checking in our distribution maps showed a transformer that is likely getting close to its rated capacity. No Customers had to call in!

Online Web Portal fcgov.com/utilities

Peak Partners Community-wide electric peak management program Wi-Fi Thermostat Cellular eWH controller Energy Savings (~10%) Cooling (electric) Heating (gas) CO2 reduction Access “on the go”

The Users Grid Advanced Meter Fort Collins will bring residents Wrap it up with Smart Grid is really about “The users Grid”, w/o users that embrace it, the real potential of Smart Grid will never be realized Advanced Meter Fort Collins will bring residents the opportunity to embrace 21st Century technologies.

Link to closing video(s) Smarter Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cPW7WV6uRg Smarter Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB26q2p38Xc