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Dr. VSK Murthy Balijepalli

Technical Champion, Green Button

India Smart Grid Task Force

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Big Picture+ Smart Grid Customer Domain

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Tariff mechanisms, new energy products,

energy options and programs to

encourage participation of customers

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Common-sense idea that electricity customers should be able to download and transmit their own energy usage information in a standard consumer- and computer-friendly format

Green Button is a standard that enables consumers to access and share their electricity consumption data in a consistent, digital and secure manner

Markets

• Covers residential, commercial and industrial consumers

Timeliness

• Instant access of consumption data of previous hour/day/ week/month/year…

Time interval

• includes any interval of data (monthly, daily, hourly, 15 minute)

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Two ways to implement Green Button

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This powerful model allows a consumer to authorize a third-party service provider to receive direct access to their Green Button Data - no need to repeatedly login to their

utility and download files. These authorizations are valid for an agreed upon time and can be revoked at anytime by the

consumer

A customer visits their utility web portal, they can simply login and

download their Green Button Data as an XML-formatted file

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Advantages of GREEN BUTTON(Empower Consumers and Spur Innovation)

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Insight• entrepreneur-created web portals analyse energy

usage and provide actionable tips

Education • community and student energy efficiency competitions

Retrofits• improved decision-support tools to facilitate energy

efficiency retrofits

Verification • measurement of energy efficiency investments

Real Estate• provide energy costs for tenants and/or new home

purchasers

Building Benchmarking

• transfer monthly data

Renewables• optimize the size and cost-effectiveness of rooftop

solar panels

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Green Button in USA and other countries

United States in 2011

•renewed call for investments in clean energy

•proposed new incentives to spur energy innovation and eliminate energy waste

•called on Congress to set a clean energy standard that creates a market for innovation

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DOE partnered with utilities and conceptualized GREEN BUTTON

•electricity customers able to securely download their own detailed Energy Usage Information (EUI) from their utility website

•voluntary adoption of an open industry smart grid standard (GREEN BUTTON FORMAT)

•standardized data format

52 utilities provided Green Button support

•enabled consumers to use their usage data to interact with a variety of third-party applications (apps)

•uses include verification of energy audits and retrofits, optimizing solar installations, home-automation controls designed to reduce consumption, etc.

Innovation

•spurred the private entrepreneurs and application developers, creating an industry of new products and services

•marked the beginning of a new era of consumer control over energy use, and local empowerment to cut waste and save money

GREEN BUTTON available to 100M (as of Dec. 2013) consumersRef: http://en.openei.org/wiki/Green_Button

Canada has adopted it in 2013Following countries are considering adoption:

•Australia•China•Japan•Korea•Indonesia

What is the use case to spur innovation in India?

GREEN BUTTON for India – report available at

http://indiasmartgrid.org/en/knowledge-

center/Reports/Green%20Button%20Standards%20

for%20India.pdf

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GREEN BUTTON in India

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Technical champion in Green Button

Engaged in continued research on extending basic

Green Button to consumer applications

Constituted Green Button Panel (with members from

Industry, Utilities, and Academia) to derive Green Button

for India

Submitted a concept note and recommendations to MoP

for Green Button implementation in DISCOMs

BIS LITD-10 (Under the Chairmanship of Sh. NS Sodha) is

pursuing Green Button and started drafting the National Standards

Green Button Standards for India will be finalized in few months

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Current Practices at DISCOMs

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NO EUI to consumers?

EUI- Energy Usage Information

solution

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Indian DISCOM with Green Button

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Consumer outreach, i.e. Engage and Empower

them by providing energy usage data, no regulatory obligations – Let’s share!!!

Efficient energy utility operations through

reduction in procurement costs, solar siting, etc

Supports cost effective deployment

Encouragement of innovative consumer

oriented servicesbenefiting both consumers

and utilities

Building for one DISCOM vs building for many DISCOMs

• Standard data formats

• More innovation on consumer data

• Common applications across all DISCOMs

• Easy accessibility of the data from DISCOMs

• Encouraging entrepreneurs to develop applications

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ISGF-MSEDCL-IITB GB Pilot Implementation

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Area of case study

Vashi town, MH, India

Consumers with AMI

1388 no.s

Scope Development of MIOS to GREEN BUTTON Convertor

Standardization of energy usage information

Consumer engagement through GREEN BUTTON

Implementation steps

Gather consumers information from Databases

Prepare a plan for collecting energy usage information

Check the format definitions

Develop converters to the Green Button

Develop Green Button Database

Develop consumer portal with Green Button download link

Innovate and implement a wide range of applications for consumer EnE*

Implementation time ranges from 2 to 6 months !!!(depends on DISCOM database management practices)

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*EnE- Engagement and Empowerment ; gives completeness to the grid modernization

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Conclusion

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Immediate step

• DISCOMs should understand and implement the basic Green Button format for standardizing the energy usage information

Future

• Utilities/DISCOMs should coordinate each other to standardize the consumer interfaces as per the BIS Standards

Queries? atulbali66@gmail.com / vskmurthyb@gmail.com

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