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Energy Climate WorkshopNovember 3, 2008Washington DC Building a Smart Grid: A National Priority

Our mission is to make the Smart Grid a reality by aligning the

interests of electric utilities, consumers

and the environment.

Mission

Our vision is to integrate every home and every business

into the Smart Grid.

Vision Values

GridPoint wants to turn distributed resources into the equivalent of

central-station generation.

How Do We Do It?

GridPoint offers electric utilities a practical path to the Smart Grid by providing an extensible technology platform and turnkey implementation

Mission, Vision, and Values

The GridWise Alliance

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Defining the Smart Grid

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Building the Smart Grid

FOUNDATION / INFRASTRUCTURE

VIS

IBIL

ITY

CAPACITYPOWER QUALITY& RELIABILITY

LOAD EFFICIENCYOPERATIONAL

EFFICIENCYCLEAN

TECHNOLOGY

AMR

AMI

Self-Healing Grid

Outage Management

Ancillary Services

Home & Building Automation

Energy Management

Systems

Customer Portals

Time DifferentiatedRates

Distribution Automation

Renewables Integration

Grid-InteractiveVehicles

REC Markets

Load Curtailment

Demand Response

AdvancedDemand

Management

21st Century Smart Grid

Today

Supply & DemandSelf-Optimization

SYSTEM CAPACITY 1,067,019 MW

AVERAGE SYSTEM CAPACITY 602,585 MW

Capacity Challenges15 % RERSERVE MARGIN1,277,072 MW

HOURS

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Capacity Challenges (cont’d)

A Smart Grid is when…

… your teenage daughter, who snuck out last night with the PHEV, plugged it in to recharge this morning and pressed “override” on your “smart charger” – paying $1.00 per kWh for daytime electricity.

…luckily, your rooftop PV is providing most of the energy to recharge, and the extra battery in your garage is working overtime to provide regulation services to the utility at a premium rate…resulting in an overall net zero cost to you.

...the grid provides value to the local utility

…the grid provides value to the consumer

…the grid provides value to the local economy

…the grid provides value to the environment

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A grid is smart when…

The Grand Challenges…

Transfer all traditional capacity reserve requirements to the demand side

Increase overall asset utilization by at least 10%

Ensure that all critical loads are served 100% of the time

Integrate clean energy technologies to reduce CO2 intensity by at least 30%

Proactively mine all utility and consumer efficiency improvements

Accommodate a penetration of more than 30% PHEVs

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Other Distributed Technologies

PHEVIntegration

RenewablesIntegration

Energy StorageIntegration

Load Measurement& Control

Two-Way

Network

AMI

Modular, Extensible, Upgradeable

INTERNET

Billings &CRM Systems

Operations &Control Center

Customer Portal

Operations Center

Utility Portal

ELECTRICUTILTY

RenewablesIntegration

Energy StorageIntegration

Load Measurement& Control

Two-Way

Network

AMI

Modular, Extensible, Upgradeable

INTERNET

Billings &CRM Systems

Operations &Control Center

Customer Portal

Operations Center

Utility Portal

ELECTRICUTILTY

GridPoint SmartGrid PlatformTM

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GridPoint Customer Portal

» Provides detailed consumption and conservation data

» Personal energy profile automatically optimizes energy consumption

» Online services

» Energy savings data

» Detailed production and consumption data

» Utility rate schedules

» Environmental benefits

» Password protected

Web-based consumer portal provides online energy management

services

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GridPoint Control Console

» On-demand or scheduled peak event management

» Predict available capacity of stored energy, load control and distributed generation

» Provides information before, during and after a peak management event

» Can be integrated with utility operations environment

» Customizable to specific utility needs

Provides utilities with direct control over an intelligent

network of distributed energy resources

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Expanding the Platform

Utility Systems

Operations& Control

Center

Operations& Control

Center

Billing& CRM

Systems

Billing& CRM

SystemsUtility Ops Center

Utility Operator Control

Consumer Interfaces

GridPoint Support Systems

Configuration& ProvisioningConfiguration& Provisioning

Monitoring& SupportMonitoring& Support

Logistics & InstallationLogistics & Installation

Commercial & IndustrialUtility Power Assets

Legacy SystemsResidential Customers

GridPoint Operations Center

SmartGrid Platform

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GridPoint Platform Capabilities

Server-CentricArchitecture

- Hosted or enterprise software- Software as a Service (SaaS)- Platform as a Service (PaaS)

- Enterprise Software

Deploy Flexibility

- SOA, Web services, XML- TCP/IP-based, 6Lopan,

ZigBee- RF mesh, private networks,

4G- Interoperability focus

Open Architecture

- Executive dashboards & scorecards- Trending & predictive analysis- Increased visibility & control

Business Intelligence

- Horizontally & vertically scalable

- Scales to millions of endpoints

- TB’s of data- 64 bit architecture

Scalability

- Device Oriented Architecture- Configuration & asset management

- Self-awareness

Auto-Provisioning

- Future-proof & upgradeable- New requirements & devices- Adaptable to market changes

- Remotely upgradeable software-3rd party or GP device plug-and-

play

Extensibility

- Segregation & protection of cust info- Data & security standards

- NERC-CIP ready- Industry leading data center security

- 128 bit encryption

Security & Privacy

- Integrated server architecture- Fully integrated, modular

solutions- Enables Network Management

(e.g., home, C&I, vehicle networks)

Modular Solutions-Web interface white label

-Targeted content-Custom data feeds & content

aggregation-3rd party & legacy GUI interfaces

Customization

- Platform, data, device integration (e.g., tstats, HAN, MDM, CRM)- Smart Grid Network Gateway

(SGNG)- Data Transform Adapters

3rd Party Integration

The promise of wind…

“…balancing-energy market prices in ERCOT's four market zones have ranged from negative territory in the west, where wind-generated power is abundant, to the market cap of $2,250 per MWh and even higher during times of transmission congestion.”

- Reuters, 5 June 2008

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2007 2008 (1st half)Data source: ERCOT

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Power Reliability

dailymail.co.uk

Boston Globe

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Power Quality

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Visibility at the endpoint provides distributed intelligence for monitoring and correcting grid power quality.

Energy Efficiency Services

… While on vacation you receive a message that your hot water heater has been running full on since last night. Your “smart energy manager” dispatches a field service technician and discovers a broken water pipe. The utility shuts off your water heater remotely and the technician on site turns off the water, saving you several days of wasted consumption and property damage.

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PHEV Smart Charging

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GridPoint enables utility-GridPoint enables utility-managed smart charging managed smart charging

of PHEVs with of PHEVs with measurement and measurement and

verification to reduce verification to reduce stress on the grid during stress on the grid during peak periods and enable peak periods and enable differentiated pricing – differentiated pricing – regardless of when the regardless of when the

car is plugged incar is plugged in

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Perspectives on the Smart Grid