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Advanced Distribution System ADS Where the Smart Grid Rubber Hits the Road

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ADS Project Purpose

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The Advanced Distribution System Project (ADS) is a multi-year initiative to identify, deploy, analyze, and assess equipment and applications to modernize the distribution system

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What we are learning provides the foundation for building our vision of a modern distribution system to better serve our customers 2

Owen Sound Trial Area

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ADS Four Technology Pillars

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Distribution Management System (DMS)

• Commission DMS at OGCC

– Tool for providing real time information about the distribution network, enabling real-time analysis, monitoring, and remote operation of equipment – Planned to model, monitor, and control the distribution system from the Feeder Breaker inside the station fence in the Owen Sound area – Staged implementation 5

Wireless Communications Infrastructure

• Communication infrastructure provides

the “backbone” for modernizing the distribution system

– Six WiMAX base stations constructed in Owen Sound area will provide the two-way communication network for newly deployed systems and equipment – WiMAX is a standards-based wireless telecommunications protocol Ø Permits usage at much greater distances than Wi-fi WiMAX Transmitter at Chatsworth DS 6

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Modernization of Equipment Automated Reclosers Pole Top

• Automation of select

feeders with intelligent devices

Station Mount

– Regulators (8 kV and 44 kV) – Reclosers – Capacitors

Pad Mount

– Switch Controllers – Power Quality Meter – Line Fault Indicators 7

Phase 1 Release 1: Day in the Life

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Owen Sound TS PCT Build

Protection, Communications, and Telecommunications (PCT) In a Box build underway on Virelec Ltd. assembly floor (Mississauga, Ontario) 9

Owen Sound TS PCT Build

PCT Box at Virelec Ltd., front view 10

Owen Sound TS PCT Build

PCT Interior: 4 Feeder Protections, front and rear view 11

Chatsworth DS Wimax WiMAX Antennae and Control Cabinet, Chatsworth DS

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Intelligent Devices

Intelligent device for voltage and VAR control

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Intelligent Devices

Intelligent device for feeder fault detection and sectionalizing

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Intelligent Devices

Intelligent device for line voltage regulation

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Intelligent Devices

Intelligent device for line voltage regulation (single phase)

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Intelligent Devices

Intelligent device for line disconnect switch and recloser within the DS and on M class feeders

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Thank You 18