Smart Grid 2010
Maximizing the Results from Next Generation Technology
May 11 and 12, 2010
Optional Workshop: May 13, 2010
Loews Hotel
DENVER, COLORADO
Optional Workshop Program Agendas
Thursday, May 13, 2010
9:00 - 12:00
Workshop One
Incorporating Smart Grid Technology into Your Company: Strategies to Develop Effective Business Plan and Application Evaluation
Tobias Whitney, Senior Manager, Compliance and Smart Grid, The Structure Group
Business Case
While many utilities obtained government funding to help jump start their Smart Grid Project, other did. Structure will host a session to help utilities understand ways improve the business case to move forward with Smart Grid solutions. Business case approaches to address the following concepts will be discussed:
- Two-way meter reading and communications framework
- Remote Connect/Disconnect
- Voltage and VAR Management
- Distribution Automation and Management System
- Integrated Outage Management and GIS
- Condition Based Monitoring and Management and Asset Management Integration
- Demand Response and Real-Time Pricing
- Direct Load Control
- Distributed Generation Control and Automated Generation Control
- Market and commercial optimization
Enterprise Service Bus
An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a mechanism to transform data into useable, actionable data so that business case for Smart Grid solutions can be achieved. ESBs and other application frameworks will be evaluated. Applications that can be leveraged to create the most value will be prioritized during the assessment and applications that are considered as "one-off" will be captured as well to determine an integration path that will take into account costs, risks and internal capabilities over the life-time of the Smart Grid Applications.
1:00 - 4:00
Workshop Two
Incorporating Smart Grid Technology into Your Company: Methodologies for Effective Communication and Network Enhancements
Tobias Whitney, Senior Manager, Compliance and Smart Grid, The Structure Group
Integrated Grid Communications Architecture
In order for any of the Smart Grid Functional Capabilities to be achieved from the first phase, a practical approach is needed for evaluating the network strategy needed provide high bandwidth means of communication to meters, circuits, substations and backhaul. During this session, Structure will evaluate numerous methods of communication to enable the Smart Grid.
- Customer and Feeder level data transport
- BPL
- Wireless Mesh
- WiMax
- Public broadband
- Substation Communications
- Substation LAN
- Power line carrier communications
- Protocols (modbus, DNP 3.0, IEC61850)
- Backhaul Strategies
- NERC CIP and Cyber security considerations
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