1. CONTROLLING AND MONITORING DER WITH APOLLOWARE
BEC ENERGY Analytics

2. BANDERA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Incorporated in 1938 – more than 79 years in operation.
More than 33,403 active meters across seven counties in Central Texas.
Roughly 100 employees operate and maintain more than 4,536 miles of power lines.
Member owned, non-profit with the most competitive electric prices and alternatives in the region.

3. THE REALITY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
More people employed in solar energy than in coal, gas and oil energy combined.
More than 1 million solar installations in the US and for the first time exceeded natural gas capacity installations on an annualized basis.
Residential PV growth in Texas is 11% with 16 MW added in Q1, 2016 viewed as the emerging market.
Texas ranks 8th in Solar and is projected to 5th by with more than 141 MW of residential PV being installed annually and this all be interconnected at the Distribution grid level.
Forbes January 25,2017 – US Solar Market report –Solar Energy Industry Association June 2016

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In 2014, BEC surveyed the membership for value-added services. The membership responded that they wanted BEC to “sell and install a competitively priced wind, solar or other alternative energy solution”.
Many of BEC members had overpaid for poor quality solar facilities. Many solar contractors avoided notifying BEC, resulting in unsafe operations.
BEC has been evaluating alternative energy technologies since the first installation in 2007 and in November , BEC Solar was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bandera Electric Cooperative, Inc.
BEC Solar has established direct partnerships with solar array manufacturers, inverter manufacturers, racking companies, certified solar installers and started development on a cloud-based DER monitoring and communication system for users and utilities.
BEC Solar was recently selected by Tesla to be 1 of 4 Tesla Powerwall Certified Installers in Texas.
Started working on Apolloware© in early 2016 as a user interface for our BEC Solar offering, rapidly evolving as the benefits of having near-real-time data at the DER site from both meter and inverter became apparent.

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ERCOT “Distributed energy resources (der) reliability impacts and recommended changes”
Develop a means to map registered DER to CIM Load
Gather data on registered DERs from all parties in a consistent manner.
Establish process for monitoring overall growth of DER
Establish criteria for the thresholds to map accumulations of unregistered DER
DER today does not pose a threat but the rate of growth of un-registered DER will drive the urgency for specific recommendations
TDSPs (including NOIEs)
Continue to monitor unregistered DER.
ERCOT and TDSPs
Jointly develop thresholds for “accumulations” of DER
Report accumulations of DERs that exceed the threshold
Map “clusters” > threshold to a CIM load

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Motor A – 3Φ compressor motors (rooftop a/c) Motor b – fan motors and ventilation fans Motor c – direct connected pump motors Air conditioner – single phase motors Electronic load – battery chargers, consumer electronics Static load – load with constant impedance, constant current, constant power

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A Cloud-Based Software System and Communication Module
Developed for monitoring and controlling Distributed Energy Resources in the Texas Electric Market
Near-Real-Time information for Members and Utilities, providing: Generation, Consumption, Voltage, Current, Real Power, Reactive Power
Utility Platform aggregates to delivery points for participating in Wholesale Power Markets and Ancillary Services
Data Exported to other Utility Systems: GIS, MDM, Billing

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System architecture

19. FUTURE OF THE GRID APOLLOWARE VERSION 1.1 APOLLOWARE VERSION 2.0
Over 20 units in the field
Over one year of monitoring
Over 1.5 million samples collected
Full rewrite of 1.0
Cloud-based infrastructure
Web API
New hardware design
New user interface
Unlimited backhaul options

20. FUTURE OF THE GRID ALPHA BETA Release in April Release in October
Secure sign-in
Create, read, update, & delete (CRUD) folders and devices
Mobile-friendly UI
Sense, report, and display data using ACM
Remote configuration of ACM
Single-phase and three-phase
Release in October
Bill reconciliation
Vendor API integration (e.g., Tesla)
Data aggregation (i.e., data by folder)
Alerts
Graphic data display
ACM hardware under $500 residential / $ commercial

21. FUTURE OF THE GRID Apolloware is now… Scalable Secure Reliable
Cloud-based infrastructure scales in real time to accommodate any number of sites and users
Secure
Complete confidentiality: End-to-end data encryption
High availability: 99.99% uptime
Dependable integrity: Multi-site redundant storage & compute
Reliable
Industry-standard, fully transparent practices make us your preferred partner

22. FUTURE OF THE GRID NISC Power & Telephone Tesla ESRI CFC Financial
Johnson Controls
Brandt Industries
Ideal Power
Fronius
Electrolab
Solar World
Sequentric
Mission Solar
Calix
NRECA International

23. BANDERA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Contact Information
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BanderaElectric
@BanderaElectric
Bandera Electric
Tyler Pansing
Project Manager / Apolloware Liaison
x6078
Miguel Rivera, P.E., C.E.M.
BEC SOLAR Program Manager
x6008