The Recovery Act

Overview
 ARRA Spending Overview

Tax Relief Energy Efficiency

$16.8 $16
$288

State &
Local Relief Energy Delivery &
Energy $36 Reliability $4.5
$144 $4.
Education Loan Guarantees
$53 (Renewables)
$6.0 $6.
Infrastructure Health Care
$111
Protection $59 Power Marketing Admin $3.3
$3.
$81 Fossil Energy $3.4

$3.
R&D $2.0
$1.
$0.
$4.5B Allocated for Smart Grid Technology 2

$4.5 Billion for the Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability
$3.375B Smart Grid
Investment Grant Program
PROGRAM DETAILS
 Matching grants of up to 50% for
investments
 Grants ranging from $500,000 to
$200 million
 Project Categories Include:
 Area, Regional, and National
Coordination Regimes
 Distributed Energy Resource
Technology
 Smart Grid Delivery (T&D)
Infrastructure
 Information Networks
 PMU Technology
Electricity Delivery & Reliability
$615 million for Smart Grid
Demonstration Projects
PROGRAM DETAILS
 Each demonstration project
should be carried out in
cooperation and collaboration
with the electric utility
 Grants are capped at $100
million per project
 The cost share must be at least
50% of the total allowable costs
for the projects
$500 million for misc.
activities
PROGRAM DETAILS
Example programs include:
 $100 million for Workforce
Training
 $80 million to conduct a
resource assessment and
an analysis of future
demand and transmission
requirements
 $10 million for the
development of
interoperability standards
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Regional Demonstration projects
8 to12 total awards
6-8 IOUs -- $20-40M each
2-4 Publics -- $5-20M each
Utility Scale Energy Storage
12 to 19 total awards
1-2 Battery Storage = $40-$50M
1-2 Frequency Regulation = $40-50M
4-5 Distributed Energy Storage = $25M
1-4 Compressed Air Energy Storage = $50-$60M
5-6 Promising Energy Storage technologies = $25M).
Synchrophasor Demonstrations
4 to 5 total awards ($15M to $20M each)
Draft FOA issued 4/16 – Comments due 5/6
Smart Grid Demonstration Projects
These projects are expected to be regionally unique
demonstrations to quantify smart grid costs and benefits, verify
smart grid technology viability, and validate new smart grid
business models at a scale that can then be readily planned and
replicated around the country
Unique demonstrations of major utility-scale energy storage installations
(advanced battery systems, ultra-capacitors, flywheels, and compressed air
energy systems)
Application areas include wind and photovoltaic (PV) integration, upgrade
deferral of transmission and distribution assets, congestion relief, and system
regulation
Synchrophasor projects are expected to demonstrate innovative,
network-based applications of time-synchronized phasor
measurement technologies
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 Smart Grid Demonstration Projects

Grant Application Standard Form 424

(http://www.grants.gov/agencies/aapproved_standard_forms.jsp)

Project summary/abstract

Project narrative, including statement of project objectives

(SOPO)

Other attachments, including –

– A project management plan (PMP) – to be updated within
90 days of award and continuing throughout execution of
the project. DOE will be involved and will analyze the
data.
– A funding plan disclosing all sources of non-DOE
funding.

BIOs and list of current/pending support for project

directors/principal investigators and senior/key persons

Notes: Period of Performance is 3-5 years. Eligibility includes all entities, except other Federal agencies,
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFDC) Contractors, and 501(c)(4) non-profits that
engage in lobbying after 12/31/95. Cost Sharing = 50% (applicants are encouraged to propose projects
that exceed this minimum cost share requirement).
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 Smart Grid Investment Grants: Key Dates

June 17, 2009 July 29, 2009 Dec 2, 2009 Mar 3, 2010 Sept 30, 2010

• DOE will issue • First round • Second round • Last round • All funds to be
The Funding application due application due application due dispensed by
Opportunity date date date this date
Announcement

At this point in There is no limit to There is speculation

time no money how much of the that the grant money
has been $4.5b that can be will be long gone before
allocated to distributed at this this due date
customers stage

First round of grants delivered in July

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 Smart Grid Investment Grants: Application

 Applicants must download the application

package, application forms and instructions, from
Grants.gov at: http://www.grants.gov/

 Applicants must submit their application through

the FedConnect portal. FedConnect website:
www.fedconnect.net

 Getting Started:
– Obtain a Dun and Bradstreet number
Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) site
– Complete a Central Contractor Registration
Central Contractor Registration site
– Register with FedConnect
FedConnect site
– Download the application package, forms and instructions from
Grants.gov (for those proposals that fall under the grants provisions)
Grants.gov site
Grants.gov search page for ARRA grants

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 Smart Grid Investment Grants: Projects
Type 1: Area,
regional and national
coordination regimes
Type 2: Distributed
Energy Resource
Technology
This area involves enhancing coordination among many entities, including balancing areas,
independent system operators (ISOs), regional transmission operators (RTOs), electricity market
operations, and government emergency-operation centers. Efforts in this area would lead to improved
measurements, monitoring, communications, and controls to determine the state and health of the
system, as well as to enhance cost effectiveness and reliability
This area includes the integration of distributed energy resources into the electric system. Distributed
energy resources encompasses renewable resources (such as, solar and wind resources), nonrenewable
and energy efficient resources on or near the loads, storage technologies (for example, advanced battery-
based and non battery-based storage devices), demand-side resources (such as, smart appliances,
electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and industrial and commercial equipment with smart-grid
functions).

At the transmission level, this area includes substation automation, dynamic limits, relay coordination,
Type 3: Delivery and the associated sensing, communication, and coordination systems. At the distribution level, this
area includes distribution automation (for example, feeder load balancing, capacitor switching, and
Infrastructure system restoration), enhancing customer participation in demand response, and improving power
quality

This area involves the application of information technology and pervasive communications
Type 4: Information technology to enhance network functions. Efforts would include improving interoperability, ease of
Networks integration of automation components, and cyber security enhancements

A portion of the funding will be allocated specifically to promote the deployment and integration of
Type 5: Phasor phasor measurement unit (PMU) technology. Phasor measurement units are high-speed, time-
Measurement Unit synchronized digital recorders that measure voltage, current and frequency on the electric power
transmission system and calculate voltage and current magnitudes, phase angles and real and reactive
Deployment power flows

DOE intends to follow the progress of smart grid technology according to

the these application types. This defines the funding categories.
Source: “Notice of Intent to Issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Smart Grid Grant Projects” 8
<http://www.naspi.org/press/oe_sgig_noi_final.pdf
 Smart Grid Investment Grants: Documents

Discussion of how the project advances smart grid

functions as defined in Section 1306(d), EISA

Estimate of Job creation (# of jobs created and retained)

Enumeration of the deployed

technologies (# of units deployed)

Cost per unit of units deployed

A Project Plan (description of project team, costs of labor and

equipment, cyber security concerns, potential risks, etc)

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What is the SMART GRID?
 Smart Grid Characteristics

 Enabling informed participation by customers

 Enabling new products, service, and markets

 Accommodating all generation and storage

options

 Provide the power quality for the range of

needs in the 21st century economy

 Optimizing asset utilization and operating

efficiency

 Addressing disturbances through automation

prevention, containment, and restoration

 Operating resiliently against all hazards

Seven characteristics of the smart grid, as identified by the U.S. DOE

Source: The Smart Grid: An Introduction ” The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
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<http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/DOE_SG_Book_Single_Pages(1).pdf>
 Smart Grid Investment Grants: Projects
Type 1: Area,
regional and national
coordination regimes
Type 2: Distributed
Energy Resource
Technology
This area involves enhancing coordination among many entities, including balancing areas,
independent system operators (ISOs), regional transmission operators (RTOs), electricity market
operations, and government emergency-operation centers. Efforts in this area would lead to improved
measurements, monitoring, communications, and controls to determine the state and health of the
system, as well as to enhance cost effectiveness and reliability
This area includes the integration of distributed energy resources into the electric system. Distributed
energy resources encompasses renewable resources (such as, solar and wind resources), nonrenewable
and energy efficient resources on or near the loads, storage technologies (for example, advanced battery-
based and non battery-based storage devices), demand-side resources (such as, smart appliances,
electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and industrial and commercial equipment with smart-grid
functions).

At the transmission level, this area includes substation automation, dynamic limits, relay coordination,
Type 3: Delivery and the associated sensing, communication, and coordination systems. At the distribution level, this
area includes distribution automation (for example, feeder load balancing, capacitor switching, and
Infrastructure system restoration), enhancing customer participation in demand response, and improving power
quality

This area involves the application of information technology and pervasive communications
Type 4: Information technology to enhance network functions. Efforts would include improving interoperability, ease of
Networks integration of automation components, and cyber security enhancements

A portion of the funding will be allocated specifically to promote the deployment and integration of
Type 5: Phasor phasor measurement unit (PMU) technology. Phasor measurement units are high-speed, time-
Measurement Unit synchronized digital recorders that measure voltage, current and frequency on the electric power
transmission system and calculate voltage and current magnitudes, phase angles and real and reactive
Deployment power flows

DOE intends to follow the progress of smart grid technology according to

the these application types. This defines the funding categories.
Source: “Notice of Intent to Issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Smart Grid Grant Projects” 12
<http://www.naspi.org/press/oe_sgig_noi_final.pdf
Cooper Power Systems Unique
Capabilities
Cooper’s Smart Grid Solution Areas

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 Coordination Regimes
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 1

This area involves enhancing coordination among many entities, including balancing areas,
Type 1: Area, independent system operators (ISOs), regional transmission operators (RTOs), electricity market
regional and national operations, and government emergency-operation centers. Efforts in this area would lead to improved
coordination regimes measurements, monitoring, communications, and controls to determine the state and health of
the system, as well as to enhance cost effectiveness and reliability

Enhancing coordination
among many entities
including Independent System
Operators (ISOs)

Improved
•Measurements
•Monitoring
•Communications
•Controls
to determine the state and
health of the system

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 Enhanced Coordination Among ISOs
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 1 – Coordination Regimes

• Centralized software to
coordinate selection and • Secure Remote Intelligent Gateway
activation of generation provides secure local interface with
distributed generation

• Optional Demand Response interface as alternate to generation

• Remote Intelligent Gateways for Independent System Operators
(RIG – ISO)
• Controlling Fleets of Distributed Generation (renewable or non-renewable)
for Flexibility, Efficiency, and Reliability
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 Improved Measurement, Monitoring & Communications
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 1 – Coordination Regimes

Improved Real Time Monitoring

of Critical Assets
• High value assets:
• power transformers
• high-voltage breakers
• Substation-hardened field-mounted
sensor measurement: pressure,
temperature, and current
• Flexible communications
(fiber, radio, cell)
• Software interface with event
notifications and data trending

Remote measurement & monitoring with integrated communications and

remote software interface - increases reliability
• Identifies incipient fault conditions prior to catastrophic failure
• Connects stranded diagnostic monitors with common communications
• Transitions from time based to condition based maintenance
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 Improved Measurement, Monitoring & Communications
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 1 – Coordination Regimes

Outage Management Vegetation Management Recloser Maintenance

• Accurate and reliable data • Locate momentary outages • Track hydraulic recloser operations
• Reduce patrol time/outage time • Plan and prioritize O&M spending • Plan and prioritize O&M spending

Outage Advisor - Monitoring & Communications

• Detect and locate permanent and momentary faults
• Increase Uptime Metrics – improve SAIDI
• Reduce Inspection time - lower O&M costs
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 Improved Measurement, Monitoring & Communications
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 1 – Coordination Regimes

Communications
Cellular, Licensed Yukon
and Unlicensed Spectrum Gridserver

Maintenance
Engineering

Distribution
Feeder Capacitors Yukon Hosted Internet
Server

VAR Advisor - Monitoring & Communications

• Detect and locate failed capacitor banks
• Reduce inspection costs – reduce O&M costs
• Improve VAR availability – improve voltage quality
• Decrease system losses – improve energy efficiency
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 Distributed Energy Resource Technology
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 2

This area includes the integration of distributed energy resources into the electric system. Distributed
Type 2: Distributed energy resources encompasses renewable resources (such as, solar and wind resources),
Energy Resource nonrenewable and energy efficient resources on or near the loads, storage technologies, demand-
side resources (such as, smart appliances, electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and
Technology industrial and commercial equipment with smart-grid functions).

Integration of distributed energy

resources into the electric
system:
•renewable (solar and wind)
•on or near the loads

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 Integration of Renewable Distributed Generation
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 2 – Distributed Energy Resource Technology

Module within Cyme

Transient Stability Analysis
software suite that models:
• Variable turbine speed
operation
• Blade pitch control
• Turbines directly coupled with
the AC grid or through a
Voltage-Source Converter
(VSC) DC link
• Windspeed “cut-in"
and "cut-off“ setpoints

Distributed Wind Generation: System Modeling

• Software tools to execute power system studies of wind farm
installations
• Also available as a consulting service
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 Integration of Renewable Distributed Generation
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 2 – Distributed Energy Resource Technology

Data Collection
• Concentration
• Conversion
• Distribution
• Remote Visualization

Distributed Wind Generation: Real-Time Data Integration

• Hardware communications and software solution
• Maximize performance and uptime
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 T&D Delivery Infrastructure
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 3

At the transmission level, this area includes substation automation, dynamic limits, relay
Type 3: Delivery coordination, and the associated sensing, communication, and coordination systems. At the
distribution level, this area includes distribution automation (for example, feeder load balancing,
Infrastructure capacitor switching, and system restoration), enhancing customer participation in demand
response, and improving power quality

Transmission Level:
•Substation automation

Distribution Level:
•Capacitor switching

•System restoration

•Customer participation

•Demand response

•Improving power quality

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 Substation Automation
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 3 – T&D Delivery Infrastructure
From …
To …
SCADA EMS SCADA EMS
PROTECTION PROTECTION
ASSET MGMT ASSET MGMT
DEREGULATED DEREGULATED
PARTNERS PARTNERS

LOCAL HMI LOCAL HMI

Controls Meters Relays Equipment Power Controls Meters Relays Equipment Power
Monitoring Quality Switchgear Monitoring Quality
Switchgear
Voltage Regs Transformers, Breakers Voltage Regs Transformers, Breakers

IED (Controls and Relays) integration increases productivity:

• Connects stranded islands of information with universal protocol
translation
• Centralizes access to all devices for security and efficiency
• Eliminates redundant communication infrastructure
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 Capacitor Switching
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 3 – T&D Delivery Infrastructure

Yukon™ Real-time Power

Leading
Factor Optimization Software
102
98
100

% Power Factor

Lagging
Centralized
98
Control
96

Capacitor Controller 94

92

90

88 Distributed
Control
86
2 day profile
2-Way Communications

Capacitors, Controllers, Communications, and Centralized Automation

• Decrease system losses – improve energy efficiency
• Improve power factor - eliminates compliance penalties
• Improve grid stability – during peak stresses
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 System Restoration
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 3 – T&D Delivery Infrastructure

Different Users Powered From Different • Coverage for residential,

Sources Across Large Geography commercial, and industrial
• From 2 to 200 power sources
• Works on reliable
communications networks from
fiber to wireless mesh networks
• Includes centralized
programming, simulation, trace,
and communications
dashboard
• Restoration in less than a
minute (options for cycles
restoration also available)

Yukon Feeder Automation – automated feeder reconfiguration using

advanced modular hardware, communications, and software
• Utilities deploy and modify across entire service area
• Improves system reliability and reduces automation costs
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 Customer Participation
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 3 – T&D Delivery Infrastructure

• First step in customer participation is establishing a

communication infrastructure
• Second step is gaining time-of-use information for
differentiated billing
• EAS Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) features
Power Line Carrier (PLC) communication technology
• Supports hybrid installation with urban mesh network
AMI
• EAS Smart Meters capture 5-, 15-, 30-, or 60-minute
load profile.
• On-board storage of nearly 600 days of hourly interval
data

Yukon AMI Meters, Communications, and Software

• Empowers customer participation through time-of-use data
• Improves productivity
• Synergy solution with Demand Response, Capacitor Control, etc.
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 Customer Participation
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 3 – T&D Delivery Infrastructure

Customer participation can include:

• Passive indicator
• Full load shedding (AC, heater)
• Smart thermostats
• Time of Use Rates / Critical Peak Pricing
• Customer web interface
• For residential,
commercial, & industrial
• Fully flexible communications

Yukon Demand Response Hardware, Communications, and Software

• Empower customer participation through time-of-use consumption
balanced with economic, comfort, and environmental decisions
• Synergy solution with Meter Reading, Capacitor Control, etc.
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 Improving Power Quality
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 3 – T&D Delivery Infrastructure

Cooper Offers:
• Capacitors, Controls
• Voltage Regulators, Controls
• Remote LTC Controls
• End-of-line voltage sensing (AMR)
• Communications & Centralized Automation
Platform
• Voltage Control and VAR Flow Optimization
Modeling Software
Currently combining all components into one
integrated solution

Yukon Integrated Volt/VAR Control - Hardware, Communications, and

Software to maximize Performance AND Efficiency
• Eliminates previous stand-alone systems which were less efficient
• Improves efficiency, voltage regulation, and capacity at peak loading
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 Information Networks
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4

This area involves the application of information technology and pervasive communications
Type 4: Information technology to enhance network functions. Efforts would include improving interoperability, ease
Networks of integration of automation components, and cyber security enhancements

Application of
Information Technology

Pervasive Communications
Technologies

Improving Interoperability /
Integration of Automation

Cyber Security Enhancements

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 Pervasive Communications Technologies
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4 – Information Networks

Backhaul – EAS offers wide integration to backhaul communications

(fiber/sonet ring, leased line, frame relay, satellite, Wimax)

T&D Substation - EAS offers Ethernet & serial radio, fiber,

wireless, hardwired communications
Urban – EAS offers wide integration of communications across
cellular and RF (AT&T, Landis+Gyr, Rogers, Trilliant, Sensus,
Verizon, Silver Spring, Itron, Eka, WiMax, etc)
Rural - EAS offers Power Line Carrier (PLC) since 1985
Home Area Network (HAN) – EAS integrating Zigbee into
smart metering and smart thermostats

Cooper’s EAS offers pervasive communications technology hardware,

compatibility, integration, and support from generation into the home
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 Pervasive Communications Technologies
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4 – Information Networks

To/From
Control Center Via Backhaul Communications Distribution Substation

DSL, frame relay, 900MHz

Yukon server radio, leased line, satellite
and database

To/From
Customer Premise

Residential
Demand Management
Meter
Load Control
Cooper’s Power Line Carrier AMI technology provides
2-way communication from the substation to the home
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 Pervasive Communications Technologies
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4 – Information Networks

Repeat
er

• AMI mesh networks require repeaters in less-urban areas

• Power harvesting solutions improves placement options and reduces
installation costs (no wiring)
• Bridges the communications between urban and rural

Cooper’s Powerline Harvesting Mesh Network Communications Repeater

combines proven technology, affordability, and innovation to solve
modern communication problems
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 Interoperability / Integration of Automation
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4 – Information Networks

• Media Conversion
• Protocol Translation
• Data Concentration
• Time Synchronization
• Data Redistribution
• Redundancy
• Annunciation
• Web Service
• Firewall Protection
• Human-Machine Interface
• Automation Processing

• Cooper’s SMP family of data concentrators and automation

processors are fully versatile solutions forming the backbone of
interoperability and integration
• Used in Generation, Transmission and Distribution
• Applications include asset monitoring, feeder reconfiguration,
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 Interoperability / Integration of Automation
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4 – Information Networks
Event Manager Visual T&D
• Fully integrated with SMP hardware
solutions for reduced configuration
• Remote Control & Configuration
(reduces travel time)
• Change Tracking & Restoration
• Password Management -
Data
automated password changes, Bridge
encryption, monitoring, & audit
• Event Management - fault data
• Network Visualization
• Connect data to other applications
like Pi Historian Passthrough Manager
Configuration Manager
Password Manager

IED Manager Suite: Centralized Enterprise-level Software Applications

• Results in improved Reliability (SAIDI and SAIFI) with centralized
event management and communications diagnostics
• Results in improved Productivity with the right data to the right
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 Cyber Security
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4 – Information Networks

Control Center Substation

Local User

IEDs

RTUs
Corporate Enterprise WAN SMP
User Server Gateway

Software interface with enterprise- Hardware interface with

level security like Microsoft substation-level IEDs creating a
Active Directory single-point of access

• Two-tiered security provides NERC required critical

infrastructure protection (NERC CIP compliance)
• Increases reliability
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 Cyber Security
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 4 – Information Networks

Control Center Substation

Local User

IEDs

RTUs
Corporate Enterprise WAN SMP
User Server Gateway

Utilities Control Generator

• Non-communicating solution senses attacks that could lead to
catastrophic failure and removes the rotating asset from service
until manually reset
• Protects high value, long-leadtime rotating equipment

• R.E.I.D. Relay (Rotating Equipment Isolation Device) provides

security for Rotating Assets
• Defense-in-Depth: R.E.I.D completes security from enterprise
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 Phasor Measurement Unit Deployment
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 5

A portion of the funding will be allocated specifically to promote the deployment and integration of
Type 5: Phasor phasor measurement unit (PMU) technology. Phasor measurement units are high-speed, time-
Measurement Unit synchronized digital recorders that measure voltage, current and frequency on the electric power
transmission system and calculate voltage and current magnitudes, phase angles and real and
Deployment reactive power flows

• Phasor Measurement Units

(PMU) are also called
Synchrophasors, and exist on
the transmission system:
• high-speed
• time-synchronized
• digital recorders
• voltage
• current
• frequency
• Provides real-time information on
the status of the grid to
supplement modeling
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 Time-Synchronized Phasor Data Over Large Distances
Smart Grid Funding Category Type 5 – Phasor Measurement Unit Deployment

Phasor Data Concentrator:

• Receives PMU / synchrophasor data
• Maintains data quality, timing and
integrity
• Provides cyber security
• Performs real-time control actions
• Generates Comtrade files
• Provides continuous information to
standard historians
• Retransmits data to HMI

EAS provides a Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) with

customized hardware and software supporting time-
synchronized phasor data for measurement-based
automation to augment model-based decisions
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 Smart Grid Roadmap and Funding

Phase 3

Automated restoration
Predictive maintenance
Phase 2 Home area networks

Fault detection
Transmission network stability (PMU)
Phase 1 Volt/VAR management
Distributed generation
Smart Meter Consumer portal
2 way communications
Substation automation
Demand Response
Cyber security

What projects utilities pursue funding for depends on

what phase of Smart Grid they are in
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Cooper’s Full Line of Smart Grid Solutions

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