1. Ward Jewell Mladen Kezunovic
Communication Requirements and Integration Options for Smart Grid Deployment
Ward Jewell Mladen Kezunovic
Wichita State Texas A&M
PSerc Research Workshop
August 4-7, 2008

2. DOE’s seven smart grid characteristics:
Enabling active participation by consumers
Accommodating all generation and storage options
Enabling new products, services, and markets
Providing the power quality for the range of needs in a digital economy
Optimizing asset utilization and operating efficiently
Anticipating and responding to system disturbances in a self-healing manner
Operating resiliently against physical and cyber attack and natural disasters
Represents an order of magnitude increase in communications needs; scada and others are already challenged by today’s data sources.

3. Communications Infrastructure
Conventional
telephone, radio, power line carrier
Existing
wired and wireless internet
fiber optic
satellite
Emerging and future

4. Research Inventory smart grid applications
Assessment of communication needs
Existing and emerging communications infrastructure available to the smart grid.
End-customer
T&D
Market communications (demand side management, IPP, wholesale generators, distributed generation)
Integration and cyber security
Recommendations for staged deployment/integration path