Dr. Lawrence Jones
April 17, 2015
Zero – One : Building a Smarter, Flexible and Resource Agnostic Grid"
Vice President, Utility Innovations & Infrastructure Resilience
Alstom Grid, North America
World Bank
Washington, DC
Alstom Grid- 2014 –2
Alstom GroupOverview
Critical Infrastructure for Power and Transport
Transport
*Source: Annual Results 2013/2014Fiscal year ended 31 Mar 2014
Power Generation
Thermal RenewableGrid
92’800 employees; present in ~100 countries
COAL
WIND
On- and Off-shore
SOLAR
TIDAL
HYDRO
NUCLEAR
GAS
GEOTHERMAL
AC and DC
TRANSMISSION
SMART GRID
STORAGE
STREET CARS
AND TRAMS
METROS
HIGH SPEED
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Electricity Grid Today – Typically a One Way Road
Production PlantTransmission
Substation
Distribution
Substation
Medium & Small
Customers
Transmission Network :
• Transmission Control Room
• Real Time Energy Balancing
Large
Customers
Distribution Network :
• Distribution Control Room
• No Real Time Energy Balancing
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Drivers of the Global Power Industry Transformation
Time
Change
Technology Change
Social Change
Business Change
Political Change
From the book “Unleashing the Killer App” by Larry Downes/Chunka Mui
The Transformation is Multifaceted, Multidimensional and Complex
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Transformation of Value Chains-Evolutionary, Revolutionary, Exponential -
“Converging technologies offer new options for customers
but challenge the business assumptions of established companies”
Larry Downes, The Laws of Disruption
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Future CCPP Efficiency� towards the 65% and above technology cycle
Power Industry Policy Transformation
Making Trade Offs While Managing Risks and Uncertainty
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Disruptive forces are driving change
• Increasing renewable energy investments
• Price of natural gas
• Focus on Greenhouse gases
• Weather related outages
• Cyber Threats
• Distributed Energy Resources
− Declining PV costs
− DR-enabled thermostats, smart appliances
− Residential scale storage
− Microturbines
• Microgrids
• Big Data technologies
• Cloud Computing
• Your example here
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Smart Grid technology – the brain and the nervous system
Smart grid : a three-level architecture
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Flexibility and the Resource “Agnostic” Grid
Existing and new flexibility needs can be met by a range of resources in the electricity system – facilitated by power system markets,
operation and hardware.Source: Adapted from Harnessing Variable Renewables, International Energy Agency
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Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) demonstration to advance Synchrophasor Grid Monitoring
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Pacific Northwest Demonstration Project / USA
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Nicegrid – Europe’s First Smart Solar District
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Grid in 2011
South
Grid
South
West
North
East
Northeast
Till 1991
5 Regional Grids
5 Frequencies
October 1991
East & Northeast
synchronized
March 2003
West synchronized
with East & Northeast
August 2006
North synchronized
With Central Grid
Central Grid
World’s Largest
Syncronised Grid
255 GW
Aug’14
India’s Evolution to a Single Synchronized Grid
31st Dec’13
One Country
One Grid
One Frequency
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Cost of Resource Agnostic Grids in the Age of Hybridity?
<2 yrs 15 yrs 40+yrs 80-100yrs20 yrs
PRECEIVED USEFUL ECONOMIC LIFE vs. CAPITAL COST
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