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Smart Grid Symposium Printer-friendly versionSponsored By: Smart meters are all the rage right now, but Smart Grid is far more than just meters, and it’s coming faster than you ever expected. Driven by aggressive public policies and funding, Smart Grid is reshaping the utility industry and how utilities build and manage their information and communication technology (ICT) networks. This vital symposium:
Attend this symposium for actionable information and deep insights into how Smart Grid is transforming everything in our industry. Sunday, May 23, 20108:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. 4:30 – 7:00 p.m. This is attendees’ first opportunity to meet and greet the vendors while enjoying food and drinks in UTC EXPO 2010. This reception is a great way to learn the layout of the exhibit hall and make plans to meet with vendors in the coming days to find out more about their products and services. Monday, May 24, 20108:00 a.m. 8:30 – 10:15 a.m. 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Several early adopting utilities across the country have blazed a trail in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployment and are ready to share the lessons learned. Find out what makes an AMI project successful and how to manage new vendors and AMI interoperability. Learn key points from other utilities’ AMI projects, so you can apply the knowledge to your own utility. This session will provide the current state of AMI at utilities. Greg Angst, Consulting Engineer, Centerpoint New Wireless Options for Utilities—Know the Strengths and Weaknesses Your utility’s need for wireless communications options has never been greater. Whether for AMI deployments or new control systems, wireless connectivity offers rapid, cost-effective, secure network deployment. Join this session to explore traditional shared licensed spectrum options as well as new commercial wireless offerings and leased spectrum opportunities. Rick Schmidt, Vice President- Utility Communication Systems, Power System Engineering 11:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Smart meters can be a key element in the creation of Home Area Networks. HANs allow residential customers to communicate with their homes remotely to manage appliance and energy usage, home entertainment systems, security systems, and more. Standards are being developed to promote interoperability and to encourage competition among providers in this emerging new market. Join us to examine the issues and the opportunities for utilities, as well as identifying the key stakeholders driving the HAN standards effort. Paul Fetherland, AMI Director, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. Networks of Networks: What Is Needed to Get Smart Grids to Work—Get the Big Picture on Efficiency Developments like decentralized and micro generation, along with wind farms, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and other renewable energy sources, are causing utilities to design and manage delivery in innovative ways. One is to create a Smart Utility Networks of Networks: an industry-wide, interconnected IP communications network. It will enable faster deployment of smart energy networks by supporting multiple applications, such as sharing of customer usage data, energy generation, and energy distribution. This is big! Chistoph Inauen, Director, Business Development, Nokia Siemens Networks, LLC Evaluating the Financial Impact of Your Smart Grid—Do You Know the Truth? Can you evaluate the expected financial, operational, and environmental impacts of your Smart Grid programs? They are difficult to measure, but there is a proven way according to a special report commissioned by UTC. This presentation reveals the study’s results and explains the methodology. Learn the secrets of how to measure the true impact of your Smart Grid efforts. David Shpigler, President, The Shpigler Group 4G WiMAX for the Smart Grid -Why WiMAX? The implementation of the smart grid requires a reliable and secure communications infrastructure. If you’re utility isn’t considering WiMax in its smart grid development it should. This presentation featuring a leading WiMAX vendor will address the important aspects related to wireless architecture, communications infrastructure and integration to get your smart grid solution implemented. The panel will also include vendor experts on smart meters, distribution automation, smart meter aggregation and overall integration to give the entire ecosystem perspective. Come hear about how WiMax is the effective solution that you’ve been searching for to integrate your utility’s smart grid and why you need to do more than just consider it, but use it to get up and running TODAY. Monica Paolini, Founder & President, Senza Fili Consulting 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Race to the UTC Gala for food and fun after a long day attending educational sessions and networking in UTC EXPO 2010. Tuesday, May 25, 2010POWER HOUR Power companies have a unique opportunity to help transform transportation by creating an intelligent infrastructure to support electric vehicles powered by sustainable energy. Utilities must adopt smart technologies to control electric vehicle charging to minimize CO2 emissions and ensure the stability of the energy grid when potentially millions of cars plug into it. Discover how your utility can enable and manage a new generation of “smart charging” stations in homes and on travel routes across the country. Leonard Leech, Design Engineering Manager, Nashville Electric Service Smart Networks Council Open Meeting This meeting of the Smart Networks Council (SNC), a forum created for utility executives responsible for building and managing smart grids and smart network services, will provide an overview of what the Council is, how it operates and how UTC members can participate in the Council's activities. Under its new structure the SNC requires members to sign up for participation in the Council's important efforts. Attend this meeting to find out how the SNC can help you. 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. 9:15 – 10:30 a.m. What kind of Smart Grid does your utility need? Join us to examine the architecture options:
In addition, utilities may work with third party commercial carriers to support the Smart Grid network, or may partner with vendors to build out a complete solution. Get the pros and cons of each option. Doug McGinnis, Principal Smart Grid Communications Architect, Exelon Corp What the Smart Grid Can Learn From Battle-Tested IT Security—the Good, the Bad, and the Easy Smart Grid security standards make the grid’s process control networks look a lot more like IT networks. An advantage of this transformation is the use of IP technologies for remote monitoring of energy devices, as well as managing grid assets and operations. The disadvantage: exposure to cyber-attacks. If a hacker breaks into the network, it could cause a massive blackout that stretches across the country. The good news is that battle-hardened Internet security technologies and architectural frameworks have evolved to the point where they can be used to keep the Smart Grid safe. The key is implementing an end-to-end security architecture. Learn how best practices in IT networks can easily be applied to utilities. Dave Dalva, Senior Security Strategist, Cisco Systems Smart Grids: Managing Data from Massive Numbers of Networked Devices—Better Planning for Better Results This session will examine smart grid implementation blueprints for utilities that have already begun deployments. While there has been much focus on rolling out the communication infrastructure to support smart utility networks, how many utilities are truly designing their networks with the end results in mind? Key question: Are you planning for the massive data flows from intelligent devices and the coupling of applications? Come and look at the long-term implications of your network planning and learn how to expand your focus to include key smart grid IT issues. Tim Slay, Telecom Director, Duke Energy Legal/Regulatory Update – What Washington Has in Store for You! Congress, a variety of federal agencies, and state regulatory commissions are looking at issues that will impact the way utilities can do business in the future. Issues include smart grid deployments, cyber security, consumer data issues, spectrum, cost recovery, rate design and federal/state jurisdiction. Join us to review the upcoming challenges as we peer into the Washington (not so) crystal ball to identify recent initiatives and the trends that will impact your ability to upgrade your communication networks and meet your new utility responsibilities. Mike Oldak, Vice President & General Counsel, Utilities Telecom Council 10:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. This is attendees' final opportunity to meet with vendors and see their products and services. Make sure you finish up your tour of UTC EXPO 2010 today! UTC will continue its prize drawings, including a grand prize right before the close. You must be present to claim your prize! 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. With the emerging demand for broadband communications such as Smart Grid applications, utilities face increasing choices. Your utility must understand the issues presented by emerging broadband spectrum bands, including:
Learn how these options present you with benefits and tradeoffs, and how technology availability will impact your current and near term decisions. This session will also present how UTC Canada members are using their 1.8 GHz spectrum to support different technologies. Mark Madden, Regional Vice President- Energy, Alcatel-Lucent Consolidating Risk Controls to Satisfy NERC-CIP Today, electric utilities are faced with the ever-growing threat of cyber intrusion which poses a huge risk to businesses and power customers. While hackers have targeted electric utilities and have been the cause of multiple power outages globally, the problem is one that poses a particular threat to US & Canadian-based entities. Datacenter owners and operators have long been aware of the threat posed by the hacker community, with the potential for more sustained and intricate attacks on the rise. As increasing numbers of intelligent devices, whether smart meters, synchrophasors or intelligent distribution transformers, come online the security issues compound. By putting controls in place to mitigate risk, utilities can confidently expand new business opportunities knowing that their most valuable asset – information – is protected and the controls meet NERC-CIP. Vaibhav J. Parmar, Global Lead, Smart Grid Communications Infrastructure, Accenture 2:45 – 4:30 p.m. 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. For better or worse, what goes on in DC and at your state regulatory commission will impact your job and the future of your company. The Federal Communication Commission's National Broadband Plan and the spectrum inventory that sets the stage, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's adoption of interoperability and security standards, and the state regulatory commissions' bold new policies on smart grid deployments will all change your world. Here's your chance to find out "just what were you thinking" during this give-and-take session with those who will be impacting your future, find out exactly what's on their mind, and maybe give them a piece of yours. Scott Blake Harris, General Counsel, United States Department of Energy What You Don’t Know About Smart Grid Security—Yes, it Can Hurt You! With the advent of Smart Grids and two-way communications, utilities face a host of new security challenges. Not only must you navigate the complex issues of cybersecurity, but regulators and lawmakers demand built-in security protections as Smart Grid is implemented. Learn how to ensure the security of your network and use federal tools and resources to help you reach long-term cyber security goals as part of your Smart Grid plan. Keep pace with your peers. Make sure your Smart Grid is a secure grid! Ernie Hayden, Professional Services Consultant, Verizon 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Smart Grid applications such as AMI, Distribution Automation, SCADA, and Demand Side Management often depend on wireless broadband connectivity from customer premises and other utility data collection points to the utility’s fiber or wireless backbone network. These applications typically require far more bandwidth than is generally available to utilities for point-to-multipoint data communications. Presently there is no dedicated spectrum for utilities, which is why you need to learn about:
Gregory Kunkle, Keller and Heckman LLP White Spaces Networks: Solution for Reliable Smart Grid Apps?—What’s Working Now In November of 2008, the FCC ruled that unused broadcast channels from the transition to digital TV would be made available on an unlicensed basis. These free channels commonly referred to as “white spaces,” offer potentially hundreds of Megahertz at frequencies with excellent propagation characteristics. Could this spectrum handle the high-bandwidth, high coverage, high-reliability networks needed for successful Smart Grid deployments? Explore the options your utility can pursue. Includes actual performance metrics from the world’s first white space networks! Mickey DeChellis, Director – Sales & Business Development, Spectrum Bridge 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. The UTC Awards Dinner celebrates the achievements of individuals involved in UTC and the industry. Come join us for a semi-formal sit down dinner as we honor individuals for Chairman’s Awards, the Dondanville Award, and the Meehan Award. Wednesday, May 26, 20108:30 – 9:30 a.m. 9:30 – 9:45 a.m. 9:45 – 11:45 a.m. America became the world leader in technological innovation through the use of voluntary standards and market-driven interoperability. Today, the voluntary nature of standardization is viewed as an impediment to the deployment of Smart Grid networks. As a result, the federal government is on a path to mandate interoperable technologies as FERC adopts NIST Smart Grid standards, including those for communications technologies. Plus this session will review the Priority Action Plan associated with the use of wireless technology for the Smart Grid, the process used to evaluate wireless technologies and the standards under consideration. Examine the total impact on the evolution of the Smart Grid and how it affects your utility. Mike Oldak, Vice President & General Counsel, Utilities Telecom Council POST UTC EVENT - USER GROUP MEETINGS
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