# Presentation: 785674

## 	      : Bringing the Electricity System into the Information Age

**Rob Pratt**
**Pacific Northwest National Laboratory**

***Information technology will profoundly transform the planning and operation of the power grid ...***

**Energizing the Northwest**
**September, 2004**

**Notes:**
GridWise:  Bringing Energy into the Information Age
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has created a vision for transforming the nation’s energy system—from central generation down to customer appliances and equipment—into a collaborative network filled with information and a myriad of market-based opportunities. 
Advanced information technology has changed so much in our society, but has not yet had similar impact on our energy systems.  This is about to change
Researchers at PNNL have been exploring how using information to make them function as a complex, integrated system.  
This will enable distributed, real-time markets and control to integrate the traditional elements of supply and demand, transmission and distribution with new technologies such as distributed generation, energy storage, and customer load management.
This will fundamentally alter our energy system so profoundly that this can only be considered a transformation.
The GridWiseTM Alliance, a new public-private partnership, is focused on bringing together key stakeholders to support this vision for the future.
The Alliance and the Department of Energy’s Electric Distribution Transformation Program will build on PNNL’s early work to bring the energy system into the information age, helping keep energy affordable, bringing new and cleaner technologies to market, and enhancing national security.

## U.S. DOE GridWise Initiative & GridWise Alliance are Mobilizing Government and Industry

***Utilize information technologies to revolutionize energy systems***** as they have revolutionized other aspects of U.S. business.**
***Create value for all participants***** by developing and deploying technology solutions that cross enterprise and regulatory boundaries.**
***Enhance security and reliability***** through an information-rich power grid that is flexible and adaptive.**
***Empower consumers***** to benefit from their participation in the operation of the power grid.**

## Information:  The Virtual Electric Infrastructure

**FACT:**
** ****  **
**In the next 20 years, the U.S. will spend $450B on electric infrastructure, just to meet load growth.**

**Revealing Values + **
**Communications + **
**Advanced Controls**
**≡** **Electric infrastructure**

**CHOICE:**
** **
**Perpetuate a 20th Century solution**
** **
**OR**
** **
**Invest in a 21st Century system saving ratepayers $80B while increasing reliability and flexibility.**

**The choice is**
**easy because...**
** **
**$ bits << $ iron**

**Information:  The Virtual Electric Infrastructure**

## Connecting the Dots of the Value Chain: Revealing Value at All Levels to All Participants

- Rate-of-Return

- Penetration

- 30%

## Grid Frequency Signature from August 14 Eastern Interconnection Blackout

**Grid Frequency Signature from August 14 Eastern Interconnection Blackout**

## Grid-FriendlyTM Appliances (GFAs) Help Keep the Lights On

**Grid-Friendly Appliances sense grid frequency excursions & control region’s appliances to act as spinning reserve – No communications required!**

**Loads and Reserves on a Typical U.S. Peak Day**

**Industrial**
**28%**

**Residential (GFA*) 20%**

**Commercial **
**29%**

**Operating reserves**
**13%**

**GFA* potential exceeds US operating reserve requirements!**

**Resident (non-GFA)**
**10%**

- *GFA appliances:  heat, AC, HW, refrig.

## Assets Fully Utilized a Few Hours per Year

- 5%

**75%**

**90%**