Dan mcgillivray the future of electricity distribution,workshopjune5th

The Future of Electricity Distribution Emerging Trends in Sustainable Communities

Š Dan McGillivray, Ph.D. June 5, 2014

Advances in Energy Technology & The Future of Electricity Distribution 1. Innovation Trends - R&D, new energy technologies and the pace of development.

2. Centre for Urban Energy – research, innovation and education.

3. Impact on future sustainable housing and communities.

10 Trends in Energy Innovation in Ontario 1. Our infrastructure is aging and needs to be replaced, refurbished and adapted to the demands of urban growth and extreme weather.

2. Our energy sector workforce is also aging ‌ 3. In the Province, we have rising supply and falling demand for power‌ we have a surplus of power for the foreseeable future.

4. In the City of Toronto, the demand for power is rising rapidly and threatening to exceed demand.

5. We have a consumer market challenged by rising electricity prices and electricity market challenged by negative pricing.

10 Trends in Energy Innovation in Ontario 6. The Ontario consumer, who has been raised in a culture of plenty and expects cheap limitless reliable power without any generation or transmission in their own backyards (NIMBY; BANANA).

7. DG capacity enabled by the smart grid, continues to grow based on renewable technologies (and CHP) … renewables are reaching parity with grid prices.

8. The pace of technology development is accelerating to the point where homes and neighbourhoods will soon be able to go “offgrid”.

9. Large generation, transmission and distribution technologies (and billions of dollars in assets may soon be “stranded”.

10. Electrical energy storage technologies are under development will be disruptive for the sector, for our homes and for our neighbourhoods.

APPLIED RESEARCH

ENERGY EDUCATION

INNOVATION i-CUE

ENGINEERING SCIENCE PUBLIC POLICY BUSINESS JOURNALISM

APPLIED RESEARCH IP MANAGEMENT COMMERCIALIZATION

ENERGY EDUCATION

NETWORK

INNOVATION i-CUE i-2 Fund

TALENT DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Ryerson Futures Inc. Entrepreneur-in-Residence

The Norman Esch Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards

Temporal Power Ltd. • Energy Storage • Flywheel technology • Energy capacity = 50 kWh • Power output = 500 kW per flywheel • Efficiency = 90 – 95%

Used Car Batteries for large scale energy storage (1.2 MWh)

Solar panels and transformers

Increasing the operational life of distribution transformers‌

Building a State-of-the-Art Smart Grid Laboratory The Lab will house a small distribution system and feature a substation, switchboard, metering equipment, feeder automation equipment and realtime software provided

by Schneider Electric.

Schneider Electric SMART GRID LAB • The multifunctional laboratory shall mimic, in a reduced scale, an automated distribution system at 3-phase 600 V. • It will include a substation and feeder automation system, realtime software, switchboards and metering products.

• The lab will be OPEN & ACCESSIBLE

• The focus of the lab. will be research and development of innovative smart grid products, systems and software, training of students through hands-on experiential learning and will entertain projects involving interoperability testing and verification of smart grid technologies, micro-grid operation, outage management systems, meter data management, distributed generation control.

Micro-grid Technologies Grid emulator

Converter power structure Wind generator emulator

Storage emulator

Converter with controller

Load (customer) emulator

Fast-tracking electric vehicles

High efficiency, cost-effective and faster chargers

Ontario municipalities now empowered to offer PAPER, PACE programs to boost energy & water conservation…

Energy Savers is a student lead start-up company which has stream-lined the LIC process and is aiming to deliver “no cost state-of-the-art home energy retrofitting services”.

CEO: M. Ryan Manchee

Innovation Trends

Rocky Mountain Institute, February 2014 Distributed electricity generation, especially solar PV, is rapidly spreading and getting cheaper.

Distributed electricity storage is doing the same, thanks largely to the mass production of batteries.

What happens when solar and battery technologies are integrated‌ and we ramp up on conservation and demand management technologies?

Rocky Mountain Institute, February 2014:

Utility Retail Price Projections Solar-Plus Battery Costs

Rocky Mountain Institute, February 2014: • Will the Electricity Grid Become Optional?

• Report identifies when and where solarplus-battery systems could enable affordable customer defection from utilities.

• Grid parity exists today in Hawaii for commercial customers, and will rapidly expand to reach residential customers as early as 2022.

Enabling Smart Networks & Smart Cities…

SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY SMART GRID

Neetika Sathe, PowerStream Inc. April 10, 2014

large, remote generation

The Past

customers

data collectors

smart suite metering

The Present data collection renewable generation

smart grid deployment CDM smart appliances

The Future Electric vehicles Energy storage

Bi-directional energy flow micro grids

Home area networks automated data collection

Ontario Smart Home Roadmap

dan.mcGillivray@ryerson.ca Š 2014 Dan McGillivray