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Matt Futch GEO presentation.TRANSCRIPT
India-U.S. Conference
May 16, 2011
Denver, Colorado
Creating Colorado’s
Smart Grid Deployment Roadmap
Energy
Conservation
Transportation
Electrification
Renewable
Integration
Grid
Efficiency
Presentation Topics
Current State: Smart Grid in Colorado
Project Development
Regulatory Environment
General Observations
Colorado Senate Bill 180
Purpose
Structure
Primary Outcome
Reconfiguring the System
Colorado Policy Goals
Market Barriers
Utility Business Model
Colorado Smart Grid Project Development
Xcel Energy Smart Grid City (Boulder, CO)
Project currently in Phase 4, the last planned stage
Retroactive CPCN process presents regulatory uncertainty
Pricing Pilot has been approved by PUC
Business model and system architecture in a debate mode
Fort Collins Power, Fort Zed (Fort Collins, CO)
Project has received QECB bond allocation approval from GEO
Focus is on micro grid application tying 5MW of DG
Multiple generation sources are being energized by end summer
Ability to tie multiple DG systems for dispatch is major premise
Colorado Smart Grid Project Development
AMI Expansion, Black Hills Energy (Pueblo, CO)
DOE grant has enabled meter replacement for entire service
territory
Utility has taken a meter replacement focus in this project
Contrast with Xcel project is a case study in divergent approach
AMI Expansion, Poudre Valley Rural Electric Assoc
DOE grant has enabled meter replacement
Utility will be conducting a pricing pilot for TOU, Peak pricing
Project demonstrates a deliberate and longer term commitment
to smart grid technology for a distribution cooperative
Colorado Smart Grid Regulatory Environment
Colorado regulatory landscape
A bi-furcated market with mixed incentive structures
PUC generally supportive of smart grid technology but
concerned about technology obsolesence
Non investor owned utilities show flexibility and potential for
longer range vision
Current policy reflects market disaggregation
Regulated utilities under a 30% Renewable Energy Standard
Public utilities under a 10% Renewable Energy Standard
Regulated utilities under high DSM mandate
Public utilities under no efficiency mandate
Colorado Smart Grid General Observations
Smart grid planning and implementation
Cost and lack of systems approach are
hindering investment
Currently power systems engineering and utility-
centric
Healthy tension between power industry and
vendor community but not benefiting consumers
Government and industry must offer a clean
and accessible vision demonstrating benefits of
smart grid
Colorado Smart Grid Senate Bill 180
SB10-180: Colorado Smart Grid Task Force
Established an 11-member Task Force to develop
the “2011 Colorado Smart Grid Report”
Bill Signed by Governor Ritter on June 11, 2010
Bi-partisan sponsorship with PUC support
Funded by American Recovery and Re-investment Act
Colorado Smart Grid SB 180 Structure
Task Force Commission by:
– Governor / Senate President / House Speaker /
Senate and House Minority leaders
11 Members representing key stakeholders
– 2 IOU, Municipal and Cooperative Electric Utilities
– Consumer protection / Environmental Issues
– Commercial Developers / Engineering Standards
– Energy Policy and Regulation / Academic R&D
– Director of the Governor’s Energy Office
Colorado Smart Grid SB 180 Purpose
LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENT:
The Task Force’s Primary Task was to produce a report
containing recommendations and analysis on the
feasibility, costs, and timing of transitioning to a secure,
resilient, and technologically advanced electric grid, for
use by Colorado residents, business, and governmental
agencies.
2011 COLORADO SMART GRID PLAN:
Submitted to Colorado General Assembly and Public
Utilities Commission on January 20th, 2011
Colorado Smart Grid SB 180 Primary Outcomes
A set of recommendations outlining how
consumers and utilities can cooperatively
build a new relationship between energy
generation, usage and technology
Colorado Smart Grid Governor’s Energy Office Smart Grid Policy
The Governor’s Energy Office identifies the following
priorities for the development of smart grid in Colorado
1. Accelerate and invest in technologies which enable system
integration of renewables, energy storage, vehicle electrification and
demand response
2. Focus on technologies which enable CO2 emission reductions
3. Account for and provide regulatory certainty on investments which
maintain and improve grid reliability
4. Provide funding and expand academic capacity for new workforce
5. Promote energy conservation through technology and pricing signals
CO System Current State CHALLENGED BY SYSTEM INTEGRATION
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Colorado Smart Grid PLAN THE WORK AND WORK THE PLAN
Colorado Smart Grid RoadmapRECOMMENDATIONS
• The appropriate governing bodies should explore options and
market structures that would provide incentives for Smart Grid
development.
• The PUC and other governing bodies should examine and develop
regulatory structures that will provide utilities with incentives to
innovate and foster small business development
• Customers must sign informed consent to release information to
third parties (signed consent may be electronically obtained), except
in those instances where access is compelled by law enforcement.
• Consumers should have access to their own energy usage,
production, cost, pricing, and time-of-use data
Colorado Smart Grid RoadmapRECOMMENDATIONS
• Promote open Smart Grid technology standards that encourage
competition, innovation, market development, and broad
participation.
• To increase internal cohesion and develop leadership around Smart
Grid governance in Colorado, should participate in plug-in hybrid
electric vehicle (PHEV) stakeholder groups to recommend
appropriate infrastructure decisions
• Support a flexible, open, secure, and technical standards–compliant
architecture to allow consumers and power providers to exchange
information to support the provision of further services to/from the
grid. A vendor- and platform independent structure.
Colorado Smart Grid RoadmapRECOMMENDATIONS
• Encourage the consolidation of Balancing Authorities to better diversify
the available pool of utility-scale renewables.
• Explore alternative business and regulatory models to address cost
recovery/rate mechanisms related to utility losses associated with
demand-side management.
• Identify specific incentives for utilities to innovate where value is
produced for the consumer but may not fit with the standard utility
business model.
• Identify and adopt an industry-standard definition of grid efficiency.
