The Future of Electricity Distribution. Emerging Trends in Sustainable Communities

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1 The Future of Electricity Distribution Emerging Trends in Sustainable Communities Dan McGillivray, Ph.D. June 26, 2014

2 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.

3 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.

4 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.

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7 APPLIED RESEARCH ENERGY EDUCATION INNOVATION i-cue

8 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

9 Temporal Power Ltd. Energy Storage Flywheel technology Energy capacity = 50 kwh Power output = 500 kw per flywheel Efficiency = 90 95%

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

11 Solar panels and transformers Increasing the operational life of distribution transformers

12 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.

13 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.

14 Micro-grid Technologies Grid emulator Converter power structure Wind generator emulator Storage emulator Converter with controller Load (customer) emulator

15 Fast-tracking electric vehicles High efficiency, cost-effective and faster chargers

16 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

17 Innovation Trends

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19 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?

20 Rocky Mountain Institute, February 2014: Utility Retail Price Projections Solar-Plus Battery Costs

21 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.

22 Enabling Smart Networks & Smart Cities SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY SMART GRID Neetika Sathe, PowerStream Inc. April 10, 2014

23 large, remote generation The Past customers data collectors

24 smart suite metering The Present data collection renewable generation smart grid deployment CDM smart appliances

25 The Future Electric vehicles Energy storage Bi-directional energy flow micro grids Home area networks automated data collection

26 Ontario Smart Home Roadmap

27 Dan McGillivray