1. Smart Energy Infrastructure
Stuart Nachmias, Vice President, Energy Policy & Regulatory Affairs
Con Edison

2. Evolving Energy Technologies

3. Evolving Electric Distribution System

4. Engaging Customers
Smart meter infrastructure will help customers better manage their bills
Allowing utilities and third parties to tailor energy advice for each customer
Better information about energy usage
Better customer experience and ability to meet ever-increasing expectations
Expanded bandwidth provides secure communications with more devices
Example
High bill alerts
Energy marketplace
Remote information

5. Smart Meters
Smart Meter & Communications Backbone Installation Timeline
Benefits of the Smart Meter System
Reduces overall costs to customers
Allows customers to manage their bills in new ways, enables alerts
Improves outage response and restoration
Eases activation of new service
Enhances reliability
Enables voltage optimization
Reduces emissions
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Staten Island
Westchester County
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Bronx
Queens
Orange & (pending PSC
Sullivan Counties
approval)
Rockland County
Con Edison and O&R’s smart meter implementation timeline will see 5,000 meters installed each day at its peak

6. New Tools for a New Age

7. Leveraging New Resources
Smart infrastructure will allow utilities to leverage customer energy resources to meet system needs
We are evaluating a variety of business models where batteries located at a customer site could be used by the utility to manage system needs
Smart homes could benefit from new rate designs that reward customers for managing their impact on the grid
At the same time, customers can benefit with greater resilience on-site and lower overall electricity bills
Marcus Garvey, a low-income housing complex, participated in Con Edison’s Brooklyn-Queens Demand Management Program

8. Managing our System in New Ways
Smart sensors that monitor the health of our network transformers are already helping us drive down transformer failures and reduce operating costs
Enhancing system visibility down to the customer level will also increase efficiency
– Conservation voltage optimization has reduced peak usage by 16% in one area of our system
All of these will contribute to lower costs for customers

9. Enhancing Safety & Reliability
Today, utilities rely on customers to notify us of outages and safety events
New monitoring devices can help prevent some of our most severe safety risks by continuously measuring key indicators
Residential methane detectors for natural gas
Manhole conditions (e.g., monitoring for precursors to smoke or flooding)
Smart meters provide outage detection, notifying us when outages do occur and speeding restoration
Residential methane detectors (above) would use our secure communications backbone (below) to alert emergency responders when a natural gas leak is detected

10. Stuart Nachmias
Con Edison

11. November 8, 2017
Broad Street Ballroom
New York, NY