CityWorks: Electric Reliability & Advanced Meter Fort
Collins Pablo Bauleo 5-24-15
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Electric Grid Basics Fort Collins Utilities Platte River Power
Authority Customers DistributionTransmission Generation 115 230
kV13.2 kV
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1980-90s: Computers would reboot 1970s: Electronic clock would
blink 12:00 Outage Impact & Reliability Needs Northeast
blackout of 2003 $6 billon loss 1960s: Electric clock would be late
2000s: E-Commerce & Stock Markets collapse
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Fort Collins Reliability Statistics (1/1/2013 12/31/2013)
Number of outages: 91 ASAI: 99.9982% How reliable the system is
Average System Availability Index SAIDI: Goal: 30.00 or lower (US
average: 240) If all customers had been out of power they would
have been in an outage for 9.5 minutes System Average Interruption
Duration Index CAIDI: Goal: 45.00 or lower (US average: 160)
Customers that experience a power outage were out an average of 32
minutes Customer Average Interruption Duration Index
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Advanced Meter Fort Collins $36M total cost Electric: $32M $16M
from Department of Energy grant Water: $4M 11-year payback from
operational savings (e.g., meter reading) Meter installations
started early 2012 through Q4 2013. Supports CO 2 reduction
goals
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Communication Network
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Early System-Level Results This heat map shows an aggregation
of low voltage alarms from a neighborhood in our Initial Deployment
Area
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From Reactive to Proactive Zooming in closer revealed the
meters that sent the low voltage alarm. Checking in our
distribution maps showed a transformer that is likely getting close
to its rated capacity. No Customers had to call in!
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Online Web Portal fcgov.com/utilities
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Peak Partners Community-wide electric peak management program
Wi-Fi Thermostat Cellular eWH controller Energy Savings (~10%)
Cooling (electric) Heating (gas) CO 2 reduction Access on the
go
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The Users Grid Advanced Meter Fort Collins will bring residents
the opportunity to embrace 21 st Century technologies.
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Link to closing video(s) Smarter Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cPW7WV6uRg Smarter Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB26q2p38Xc
