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A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR MAINTAINING POWER GRIDS Paul Bielowicz, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret.) Vice President, Kell-Star Services, LLC Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Dr. John F. Ayala, PE, PMP President, Falcona Management & Technology, LLC SBA Small Disadvantaged Business Texas Historically Underutilized Business

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Page 1: A N EW T ECHNOLOGY FOR M AINTAINING P OWER G RIDS Paul Bielowicz, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret.) Vice President, Kell-Star Services, LLC Service Disabled Veteran

A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR MAINTAINING POWER

GRIDSPaul Bielowicz, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret.)Vice President, Kell-Star Services, LLCService Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business

Dr. John F. Ayala, PE, PMPPresident, Falcona Management & Technology, LLCSBA Small Disadvantaged BusinessTexas Historically Underutilized BusinessSan Antonio Small Minority Business Enterprise

July 12, 2011

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Today’s Overview

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Situational Awareness/Military Readiness

The Opportunity

The cost of energy is contained in the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) account.

DoD’s objective is to have the most reliable source of energy possible, especially to support critical operational capabilities.

Looking for the most cost effective solutions to meet their objectives while operating within the constraints levied on the Department.

New technologies capable of providing monitoring and fault detection prior to failure – providing a predictive tool set to enhance maintenance and support capabilities.

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Smart Grid Aspects

• What are the key components?

• What are the costs drivers?

• What are the long term prospects?

• What actions can be taken to reduce costs while not compromising services?

Power grid reliability impacts all aspects

Power GridReliability

Energy Source

Energy Storage

Central StationGeneration

EnergyFacilities

RenewableEnergy

Bulk PowerDistribution

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Operations and MaintenanceProgrammatic Support – 70/30 Rule

Smart Grid is a modernization of the electricity delivery system so that it monitors, protects, and automatically optimizes the operation of its interconnected elements – from the central and distributed generator through the high-voltage transmission network and the distribution system, to industrial users and building automation systems, to energy storage installations, and to end-use consumers and their thermostats, electric vehicles, appliances, and other household devices.

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Benefits of the Smart Grid

1) Provides Power Quality for the Digital Economy. The Smart Grid provides reliable power that is relatively interruption-free.

2) Optimizes Asset Utilization and Operational Efficiently. The Smart Grid optimizes assets and operates efficiently.

3) Anticipates and Responds to System Disturbances (Self-heal). The Smart Grid independently identifies and reacts to system disturbances and performs mitigation efforts to correct them.

4) Operates Resiliently against Attack and Natural Disaster. The Smart Grid resists attacks on both the physical infrastructure (substations, poles, transformers, etc.) and the cyber-structure (markets, systems, software, communications).

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Benefits of the Smart Grid

5) Allows Direct Participation by Consumers. The smart grid consumer is informed, modifying the way they use and purchase electricity. They have choices, incentives, and disincentives.

6) Accommodates all Generation and Storage Options. The Smart Grid accommodates all generation and storage options.

7) Enables New Products, Services, and Markets. The Smart Grid enables a market system that provides cost-benefit tradeoffs to consumers by creating opportunities to bid for competing services.

(Continued)

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An Innovative TechnologyDistribution Fault Anticipation (DFA)

System utilizing digital signal processing methods to extract feature vectors (electrical signatures), in conjunction with pattern-matching technologies to report specific anticipated and current failure modes.

Continuously monitors distribution feeders using intelligent automated algorithms to detect, characterize, and predict failures or faults in electrical power.

Enables advanced situational awareness and decision processes to improve reliability by detecting, alerting, and enabling repairs before equipment failures and outages occur.

Works autonomously without the need for personnel to spend time analyzing waveforms.

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Electric Power Reliability MethodsDistribution Fault Anticipation (DFA) – Proposed Technology

Technology Capabilities

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logi

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BreakerEvents

RecloserEvents*

LoadingInformation

Fault LocationInformation

CapacitorDiagnostics

FailurePrediction

AutomatedAnalysis &Reporting

WaveformCapture

DistributedHardware

Req'd

Distributed CommsReq'd

SCADA YES NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

DistributedRTU

NAWHERE

INSTALLEDWHERE

INSTALLEDNO

WHEREINSTALLED

NO NO NO YES YES

DigitalRelays

YES NO NOWHERE

RETRIEVEDNO NO NO YES NO NO

DFA YES DETAILED DETAILED ENHANCED DETAILED YES YES YES NO NO

SmartRecloser

NA YES YESWHERE

INSTALLEDNO NO NO

WHEREINSTALLED

YES YES

PQ Meter YESMANUALANALYSIS

MANUALANALYSIS

LIMITEDMANUALANALYSIS

NO NO YES NO NO

AMI TBD TBD TBD TBD NO NO NO NO YES YES

* Based on automated analysis of substation current and voltage waveforms, DFA delivers detailed information about all breaker and line recloser operations, including hydraulics and those without distributed communications.

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Distribution Fault Anticipation MapCondition-Based Maintenance of Electric Power

Measuring fault current at substation and putting it in feeder model reduces search area to sections

shown in red.Recognizing recloser characteristics and putting them in model further reduces search to two circled areas (still based on substation measurements

only).

Distributed measurements further reduce search to

single area.

Map of feeder 48836.

DFA detects failures and incipient failures in order to locate them for proactive corrective actions.

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Alabama Power/Southern Company

Oncor Electric Delivery

TVA/Pickwick Electric

Bryan Texas Utilities

Arizona Public Service project starting

CenterPoint Energy (Houston) project starting

Others in negotiation

Current Utility Demonstrations

Distribution Fault AnticipationTechnology Ready for Military Applications

We can set up a meetings at your location or via Web-X with the inventors from Texas A&M University and Power Solutions, Inc. at your convenience.

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B. Don Russell, PhD, PETexas A&M University Electrical and Computing Engineering Department Regents Professor and Harry E. Bovray Jr., Endowed Chair

Texas Engineering Experiment Station Director, Power Systems Automation Lab

Power Solutions, Inc. – Director and President

Carl L. Benner, PE.Texas A&M University Electrical and Computing Engineering Department Senior Research Engineer

Texas Engineering Experiment Station Assistant Director, Power Systems Automation Lab

Power Solutions, Inc. – Director

The InventorsDistribution Fault Anticipation

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Summary Power grid

– Reliability is agnostic to the energy source– O&M Costs will be reduced using DFA

Improved situational awareness using DFA– Focuses on predictive-preventative maintenance than corrective

Lower occurrences in power outages Lower occurrences in catastrophic failures

– Reduction in troubleshooting and analysis– Restores power to customers sooner

Follow on meetings– Contact Kell-Star and Falcona to set up meetings with the

inventors

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Questions &

Answers

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Points of Contact

Lead Contact information

John Ayala [email protected] 210-704-1489

Paul Bielowicz [email protected]