The Advanced Grid. Xcel Energy s Perspective. March 14, 2018 Eric Gupta

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1 The Advanced Grid Xcel Energy s Perspective March 14, 2018 Eric Gupta

2 Purpose Provide an overview of the grid and what is changing with respect to distributed energy and customer expectations Describe the Advanced Grid Intelligence and Security (Advanced Grid) value proposition and how an Advanced Grid enables it Describe the components of an Advanced Grid 2

3 Utility industry perspective Competitive landscape Increasing customer expectations Advanced Grid Aging infrastructure Rules and regulations 3

4 Energy industry perspective Significant decrease in price of solar Increase in energy-related competition Electricity demand growth stagnating Distributed Energy Resources (DER), emerging technologies Solar Microgrids Wind Energy efficiency Utility-scale renewables Business technology mgmt Energy storage Electric Vehicles (EV) 4

5 Customer perspective Want more energy options Interested in products to generate their own energy Likely to purchase, signup for solar Prefer to interact with their utility via web, mobile Elevated price sensitivity More sophisticated Entrenched in digital age Less tolerant of service interruptions 5

6 Yesterday s power system is evolving, creating new opportunities for products and services Central generation, one-way power flow, passive consumers 6

7 Tomorrow s power system will require expertise and know how in a variety of disciplines Distributed generation and storage creating two-way power flow 7

8 Advanced Grid Intelligence and Security Strengthen the grid so that our customers view Xcel Energy as their long-term energy solutions provider Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) Integrated Volt-VAr Optimization (IVVO) Field Area Network (FAN) Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) Emerging Technologies Technology Suite Enabling Customer Experience, Choice, Control & Enhancing Grid Operability Security and Data Solutions Process Integrations, Change Management, Talent Strategy, Communications, Governance 8

9 Xcel Energy s Advanced Grid provides value Cleaner, More Reliable Energy A Better Customer Experience More Ways to Save Money Customer Value Integrates more renewable, carbon-free energy sources Improves reliability with fewer, shorter outages due to better system monitoring and more automation preventing outages and enabling us to restore power quickly Provides timely, relevant information such as high bill alerts Makes it easy to integrate new technology such as electric vehicles Saves time with more self-serve options Helps customers track energy use in near real-time and make adjustments to keep energy costs low Enables new pricing plans that provide opportunities to save money Operations Value Provides interactive controls enabling system operators to respond more quickly to outages Provides the ability to remotely configure system, isolating outages Improves situational awareness, improving efficiency with monitoring and control capability Provides instantaneous outage notification for proactive customer communications Improves access to customer usage data for better customer service Enables remote connect, disconnect service for faster customer intervention Provides additional interval attribute data to support complex billing Improves outage duration by identifying outage location through technology Increases operational efficiencies through remote sensing, voltage control of system 9

10 Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) ADMS 10 Intelligent mapping of distribution system Enhanced visibility, control of field devices Improved visibility at customer meter with Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Selected Schneider Electric as vendor Benefits Enhanced reliability Renewables penetration Improved voltage control Advanced Grid Intelligence and Security

11 Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) FLISR Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) provides logic to operation of system Identifies fault location Develops switching plan and can execute that plan Reduces outage durations and time to locate faults Benefits 11 Enhanced reliability Improved customer experience Improved employee safety

12 Integrated Volt-VAr Optimization (IVVO) IVVO More efficient power flow by changing electrical characteristics of the system Enables voltage control for energy efficiency, peak shaving Requires intelligent field devices Optional use of secondary voltage devices Benefits Improves service voltage levels Cost savings Environmental stewardship Enables higher penetration of renewables 12

13 Field Area Network (FAN) Field Area Network (FAN) High-speed communications network Benefits Benefit enabler Status 9 Denver sites active, 80 by end of 2018 Mesh vendor selection in progress 13

14 Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) AMI Integrated systems Advanced meters Business and operational data Data management Communications networks Enable two-way communication Business, data systems Benefits for customers, utilities Advanced Grid Intelligence and Security 14

15 Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Rates Improved portals Demand response Remote connect capability Distributed Energy Resource monitoring More Product & Services Improved portals Home Area Network (HAN) More timely energy data/ on-demand reads Outage response time Timely electric service response Improved Customer Experience Hot socket detection Site wiring verifications Network level and meter level remote diagnostics Overthe air updates/configurations Remote Diagnostics Field data analytics Theft detection Outage and restoration confirmation, nested outage detection Avoided truck-rolls, efficiency gains Voltage sensing metrics Premise-specific information Operations Reporting Outage Notification Integration to AGIS ADMS/AMI 15

16 Emerging technology storage Battery storage projects Panasonic Microgrid Partnership Community Energy Storage at Stapleton Benefits Demonstrating capabilities Operational experience Increased Distributed Energy Resources (DER) hosting capability Stacking values Informs new products, services 16 Peña Station (Panasonic) battery/microgrid

17 Deployment Colorado CPCN Filed late 2016, approved mid 2017 Included all programs Detailed CBA In deployment Minnesota TCR Filed late 2017, in deliberation Subset of programs Detailed CBA as well Waiting on approval 17

18 Questions? Questions? 18