Standards, Pilots and Institutional Framework Kumud Wadhwa ISGTF Secretariat 1

Smart Grid 2 Smart electricity grids and DERs have been identified as a promising way for the transition towards a sustainable system and issues include adequate regulatory and institutional regime changes market mechanisms including electricity and financial understanding of dependencies and lockins of social practice of energy use research-technology and innovation policy Smart Grids can be put into practice with due considerations for public and sectoral governance new institutional structures as well as framework conditions of political, economic, environmental and social nature that need to touch People Process and Policy

Communications Network IT Systems Work Center Major Components Field Devices Renewable Integration Data Acquisition Communication Data Management Analytics Control Smart grid is a holistic approach towards finer control of load to match generation that includes renewable energy Require knowledge of information technology and communication besides domain knowledge Smart Grid Pilots

Smart Grid Pilots in India Smart Grid initiatives started at various Energy Distribution Utilities – Smart Grid pilots sanctioned (MoP)- 14 AMI is the functionality opted by most of the utilities --- MoP Approved Smart Grid Pilots PQM- Power quality management AMI- Advanced metering infrastructure OM- Outage management PLM- Peak load management MoP – Ministry of Power Enables the availability of consumer energy usage data

Standards Evolution … 5 Telecom sector Electricity Worldwide Electricity in India timeline ## private sector entry in telecom Equipment manufacturing National Telecom Policy + TRAI established+ Pvt. (mobile) brands entry Entry & competition b/w Handsets manufacturers started Mandatory network protocol testing+ interoperability b/w handsets standards evolution for newly identified requirements IEC into active standards development IEEE started the power system Standards development Dev. of Power System data standards like MultiSpeak, CIM, etc Dev./maturity of smart grid data standards like OpenADR, GREEN BUTTON etc., standards evolution for newly identified Grid requirements BIS established by GoI Actively associated With many International bodies Standards formulated by BIS Draft of PS data standards released 20## standards preparation for smart grids ? ??

Standards to Spur Innovation: A worth mention case US President Obama in 2011 renewed his call for investments in clean energy proposed new incentives to spur energy innovation and eliminate energy waste called on Congress to set a clean energy standard that creates a market for innovation Administration partnering with utilities come up with the idea of GREEN BUTTON electricity customers able to securely download their own detailed EUI from their utility website voluntary adoption of an open industry smart grid standard standardized data format 52 utilities52 utilities in more than half the states were providing Green Button support Enabling consumers to use their Green Button data to interact with a variety of third-party applications uses include verification of energy audits and retrofits, optimizing solar installations, and home-automation controls designed to reduce consumption Innovation spurred the private entrepreneurs and application developers, creating an industry of new products and services marks the beginning of a new era of consumer control over energy use, and local empowerment to cut waste and save money 6 GREEN BUTTON available to 3,57,10,000 (as of June 2012) customers Ref: GREEN BUTTON in other places – Canada Europe Countries to follow: Australia China Japan Korea Indonesia What will be a use case to spur innovation in India? What data can be made as an open standard?

Few Thoughts Need to keep a balance between Standardisation vs. Innovation Following Maslow’s Law of NEEDS try to address mandatory things first Try to identify what is mandatory and what is desirable – Priority for AMI solution should be data reliability, availability and security – Smart Meter interoperability can get evolved based on Market forces as was the case for Reliance handset that was required for Reliance CDMA network in initial years Transparency and Good Governance can help to identify suitable partners and not just owners and suppliers. As the field is evolving we can learn from each other thru Collaboration- INDIA SMART GRID KNOWLEDGE PORTAL to be fully used 7

Institutional Framework 8  a long-term transition towards a more distributed and sustainable system of energy production and consumption.  as Smart Grid is going to connect all domains of Power Sector(Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Consumption/Regulation)for information exchange and control we need to look for an institution that is a bridge for these silos but with adequate expertise from each domain  transition process is not a matter of few years but most likely of decades  technologies need to co-evolve with institutional changes - changes in process and people practices  requires complete research for Organisation Structure and Design –Organic structure.. Mechanistic structure… Virtual Teams

 Three functional levels:, “Niche”, “Regime” and Landscape”.  A regime can be understood as a particular set of practices, rules and shared values, which dominate the system and its actors.  Regional pilot projects for smart grids can be considered as “niche” activities which might lead to a regime change and the possibility of the diffusion of such niches into mainstream of the energy system. “Landscape” describes the exogenous environment of the system.  Interactions between the internal regime dynamics, wider landscape factors and niche alternatives tend to destabilize the present regime and may give rise to a new regime.. 9 Identification and removal of regulatory barriers, innovation-friendly rules, flexibility that bridge the “cultural divide” between research traditions in technology development and governance

Envisaged Framework 10 Ministry of Power (MoP) ISGTF ISGF BIS, LTTD Utilities Industry Consumers C CC C C C C C C C C C SG pilot Implementation Regulators Policy support Standards recommendations and preparation Approvals Proposals for effective SG deployments Feedback/ Requirement collection Requirement collection Education/ feedback Policy recommendations Guidelines/ Approvals How to Increase understanding among a range of stakeholders of the nature, function, costs and benefits of smart grids? How to Identify the most important actions required to develop smart grid technologies? What is the scope to understand and model the changing roles, influences and opportunities of large and small ‘actors’ in the dynamics of transitions?