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The foundational infrastructure comprises the most
essential components of an electric utility on top of which
all remaining layers are built.
issues and gaps and ensure seamless interaction with the
existing and upgraded foundational infrastructure. examples
of relatively new components being integrated into transmission and distribution grids include ders, AMis, advanced
sensors such as phasor measurement units (PMus), and
power electronics-based devices for volt-var control and support. Additionally, the rise of the smart city concept, which
aims at improving the workability, livability, and sustainability of cities and metropolitan areas, is opening the door to
bidirectional data exchange and communication with other
critical infrastructures such as water, gas, and transportation
systems. These trends are expected to continue growing as
more system components and new technologies are incorporated into transmission and distribution grids, and wide-area
monitoring, protection, automation, and control of transmission and distribution grids, ders, and the grid edge become
a reality. Therefore, a utility of the future strategy and framework must address participation in the development of engineering standards, constant assessment of emerging trends,
products and solutions, and related activities, such as computational model development, testing, and validation. on the
computational modeling side, the industry has recognized
the maturity and importance of software tools to design,
plan, and operate generation, transmission, and distribution
systems. As new components are integrated, there will be a
growing need to further enhance the capabilities of existing
tools and develop accurate models that can be used in the
aforementioned activities.
examples of ongoing developments in this area include the
review and update of ieee 1547, Standard for Interconnecting Distributed Resources, and activities regarding the development of interoperability standards to ensure that equipment and
solutions developed by different manufacturers and deployed
to enhance system automation and control, such as dMss and
voltage and current sensors, smart meters, smart inverters and
protection relays, can communicate and exchange data flawlessly. This includes ongoing activities conducted to address
smart grid-related needs by organizations including ieee,
the smart grid interoperability Panel, gridWise Architecture
council, national institute of standards and Technologies,
the international electrotechnical commission, and cencenelec-eTsi. Additional examples encompass the growing
need to address gaps pertaining to engineering standards for
the interconnection of energy storage, particularly those related
to system performance and safety. The latter includes ongoing activities led by ieee, the u.s. department of energy, and
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Finally, a similar evolution is occurring behind the meter, a territory traditionally not explored by utilities, where the proliferation of home and building automation solutions and the potential
for bidirectional data exchange and supply of new and diverse
services (e.g., demand response and der-related services) will
require utilities to develop or acquire expertise in this area to
fully take advantage of future business opportunities.
some of the key challenges in this area are the dynamic
nature of new technologies, products, and solutions and the
difficulty to keep track of and select specific products to
model, evaluate, standardize, test, and validate. Moreover,
the magnitude of the power system makes bridging some of
the computational modeling gaps a complex and massive
endeavor. challenges in this regard include the joint modeling of transmission, subtransmission, and distribution grids;
full modeling of distribution grids beyond medium-voltage
lines and service transformers to include secondary (lowvoltage) grids; and the modeling and analysis of long- and
short-term dynamics as well as transient phenomena.
Business and Regulatory
The technology and customer expectation changes previously described are starting to have an important impact on
business, regulatory, and policy aspects of the electric utility
industry. The last five years have seen growing interest in
rate design aspects such as unbundling to introduce capacity
charges and ensure that utilities recover investments needed
to build the required infrastructure to provide service to customers. This has been motivated by the rise of ders and the
respective reduction in electricity sales to customers under
net electricity metering agreements. Moreover, the introduction of the ciP standards by the north American electric
reliability corporation to address concerns regarding cyber
and physical security, Ferc order 1000, and new environmental and renewable energy regulations, such as the clean
Power Plan, represent an important volume of additional
work for electric utilities that require plenty of attention,
expertise, and dedicated resources.
Additional challenges have arisen regarding asset ownership, investment recovery, and related legal matters to
regulate transactions and commercial relationships in community microgrid applications that rely on the utilization of
both utility infrastructure and third-party ders. similarly,
the introduction of new services provided by utilities and
the possibility of a bidirectional data and services exchange
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