Hi Sila,
I would like to add:
A.
In the Grid to Building direction:
a. I think
there should be separate Emergency/Reliability signals, not just price. The
signal should be clear and not blurred by mapping to a price.
b. Especially
with DER becoming more prevalent, upcoming maintenance/outage management events
need to be announced. Buildings would like to know when to turn on the
backup generators. And the construction crews would appreciate the
building make the circuits safe for them.
c. A
unique Program Identifier is required because the building/meter/feeder might
be involved in a number of programs with a number of different service
providers.
d. Other,
program specific information is required. As usual, Ed homes in to the
heart of it in the Curtailment program example, the baseline.
B.
In the Building to Grid direction:
a. To
whom does the custodian allow access to the data, for how long, which items,
and when each item was effective? And where should the custodian send the
report of who accessed what and when of my data. I don’t want
to be promiscuous with my data—I wouldn’t want burglars to identify
when my facility will be closed for Founder’s Day.
b. Since
I may want to sell curtailment to more than one CSP, I will have to permit both
to access the same data. I leave it up to them to figure out a way to
make sure I’m not selling the same curtailment to two CSPs. Though
if someone can come up with a clear mechanism, I would love to hear it.
C.
Trusted custodian of the data:
a. Electricity
Distribution Entity – the one who has the data, now. Is always
affected by the load on the distribution infrastructure. Is the natural
monopoly the will likely always be regulated by politicians.
b. Root
Certificate Authority-like entities. Used to authenticating.
Verisign doesn’t give me warm fuzzies, though.
c. Others
you suggest.
D.
And while I was blathering away here, I see Toby’s assessment
of customer forecasts. I like it. What’s it worth to
ya? Perhaps it’s a clause in the Program.
So much for fun, back to work,
B.O. February 3, 2010
Robert Old
Siemens Industry, Inc.
Building Technologies
1000 Deerfield Pkwy.
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089-4513
Tel.: +1 (847) 941-5623
Skype: bobold2
www.siemens.com
From: Larry Lackey [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:23 PM
To: Sila Kiliccote; Ed Cazalet
Cc: Considine, Toby (Campus Services IT); Energy Interop
Subject: RE: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion
Great start, Sila. To the list
I’d suggest adding the building or facility’s bid/ask price for
consumption/DER over the relevant time period(s).
This could, and probably should,
be iterative with the “Grid”, which might be multiple institutions,
providing forward costs for different intervals and buildings responding.
Larry
From: Sila Kiliccote [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:30 PM
To: Ed Cazalet
Cc: Considine, Toby (Campus Services IT); Energy Interop
Subject: Re: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion
If the grid has the historical data
from each facility plus weather data from each location, it can generate
forecasts for each building as well as the aggragate. The building's prediction
is an fyi for the grid This happens in the grod between utilities and
ISOs all the time sort of like a check/balance but may not be
necessary if not trusted.
Sila
On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Ed Cazalet <>
wrote:
The grid usually forecasts load in the aggregate. What is
the building forecast for? If it is a baseline for a DR program, then who
should be responsible for the forecast? The customer should not do it,
because of the incentive to bias the forecast.
Edward G. Cazalet, Ph.D.
101 First Street, Suite 552
Los Altos, CA 94022
650-949-5274
cell: 408-621-2772
www.cazalet.com
From: Considine, Toby
(Campus Services IT) [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:31 PM
To: Energy Interop
Subject: RE: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion
Traditionally, building load management has been crude, and
aggregated in certain large time granules. Industrial sites, however, have had
strong incentives to manage peaks.
As operating safety margins get smaller, it may become
increasingly important to manage peaks aggressively, even within the
neighborhood or even home. Is some sort of detailed peak /load shape of
interest in the new world? What about power factors? Is the forward and
backward reporting of curves rather than points of measurement the future of
smart metering?
tc
"If flies are allowed to vote, how meaningful would a poll on
what to have for dinner be, and what would be on the menu?" -
Unknown
Toby
Considine
Chair,
OASIS oBIX Technical Committee
Co-Chair, OASIS Technical Advisory Board
Facilities Technology Office
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Email:
Toby.Considine@
unc.edu
Phone: (919)962-9073
http://www.oasis-open.org
blog:
www.NewDaedalus.com
From: Sila Kiliccote
[mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:09 PM
To: Energy Interop
Subject: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion
All,
David Holmberg and I had a great conversation today on the
scope of EI (which will hopefully feed into section under discussion).
I’d like to open up some of my ideas and get your feedback before I
propose a few paragraphs for the scope section.
I’d like to look at the scope from a B2G
interface point of view and the questions I suggest we try to answer are:
1.
What information do the buildings need from the
electricity grid?
2.
What information does the electricity grid need from
the buildings?
Buildings’ need from the
Grid:
-
Electricity prices (various forms such as absolute, relative, level,
etc)
-
DR contract parameters – excluding direct load control: A contract
can have the following parameters:
- Issue time,
start time, end time
-
Within the start time and end time there may be a request from the grid
for load reduction (%, absolute, relative, etc) (or load increase - when there
is too much generation)
- Power quality (Do we care how “good” the power
we get from the Grid? Probably! What are the indicators to be communicated to a
building?
- Location of the resources needed
Grid’s need from buildings:
-
Measured (current, historical) demand
-
Predicted demand
-
Available DR (over next 24 hrs?, 1 week?)
- Location identifier (meter, address, grid location
indicator?)
I welcome your comments. All of the above assumes that
the meter is the demarcation point. And just to add, the expansion of this to
DER can be again categorized as on the utility side and on the building side
but should be a super set.
Sila
