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EBC Energy Resources Webinar: Energy Infrastructure Resiliency – Adapting to a Changing Climate
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EBC Energy Resources Webinar:
Energy Infrastructure Resiliency –
Adapting to a Changing Climate
Welcome
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Marc Bergeron
Chair, EBC Energy Resources Committee
Associate, Epsilon Associates, Inc.
Introduction and Program Overview
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Matthew Waldrip
Program Co-Chair
Supervisor – Licensing & Permitting
Eversource Energy
Utility Public Policy Instruments for Adaptation
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Roger Kranenburg
Vice President of Energy Strategy & Policy
Eversource Energy
Microgrids & Energy Storage –
Moving them from Paper to Solid Ground
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Mark Evlyn
Associate Director
Distributed Energy Services
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[RESILIENT]INTEGRATED
SUSTAINABLE
From Paper to Solid Ground
May 2020
Microgrids & Energy Storage
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TRC: A Grounded Perspective
Half a century delivering efficient, resilient systems.[
Mark EvlynAssociate Director of Engineering,
Microgrids and Storage
15 years of complex utility-scale
engineering of storage, PV, microgrids;
business and entrepreneurship
perspective
utility, city, and
community DER projects, over
years of service
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GENERATIONUtility scale
generation
Utility Infrastructure
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DELIVERYTransmission, distribution,
controls, and cyber-security
MANAGEMENTEnergy efficiency, demand response,
and distributed energy resources
Utility role evolving to better serve the modern grid
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Utility ‘the other Infrastructure’
Grid
Modernization
PEOPLE &
PLATFORMSPOLICY &
PLANNING
PROJECTS &
PROGRAMS
[ enable & empower]
• Staffing & resources
• Partnerships
• Education, training,
& outreach
[ design & deliver ]
• Infrastructure
upgrades
• Community microgrids
• Energy storage
[ innovate & transform ]
• Goals & targets
• Resiliency & reliability
• Systems thinking & integration
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Adapting Infrastructure
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Eversource
Energy Storage
Case Study
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Conventional Grid Constraint
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• 11,000 customers downstream
Wellfleet Substation
• Served by a single line from Wellfleet
to Provincetown
• In the past 6 years, customers have
experienced several multi-hour
outages
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Conventional Solution
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New transmission line through 13 miles of
Cape Cod National Seashore
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Integrating Conventional
and Advanced Solutions
ConventionalUtility generation, unidirectional distribution, traditional IT/OT
How are utilities implementing these new solutions?[
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Integrating Conventional
and Advanced Solutions
Advanced / Distributed Distributed energy resources, storage, DERMS, demand response, energy efficiency,
interconnection, grid operations, rates/tariffs, system upgrades, cybersecurity
How are utilities implementing these new solutions?[
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Integrating Conventional
and Advanced Solutions
ConventionalUtility generation, unidirectional distribution, traditional IT/OT
Advanced / Distributed Distributed energy resources, storage, DERMS, demand response, energy efficiency,
interconnection, grid operations, rates/tariffs, system upgrades, cybersecurity
New Solution Set
+
=
How are utilities implementing these new solutions?[
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Solution must meet
today’s priorities
• Minimize environmental disturbance
– Avoid construction through Cape Cod
National Seashore
• Reduce GHG Emissions
– Support existing and future solar
installations
– Peak load reduction → decreased need for
upstream peaking generators
• Maintain/improve aesthetics
– Brown-field improvement
– Maintain ‘picturesque’ peninsula view
How a solution for reliability
was thoughtfully
approached to maximize
environmental benefits
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Cape Cod Peninsula
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Today’s priorities:
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• Reliability
– Mitigate peak loads and flatten “duck
curve”
• Resiliency
– Provide backup power during grid
interruption
• Grid modernization
– ‘Microgrid-ready’
• Job growth
– Emerging environmental and energy
sector
The duck curve shows
steep ramping needs and
overgeneration risk
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“duck curve”
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Deriving the right mix
Cost/Benefit
System Modeling
Technical
Social
Environmental
Regulatory
[ ]Li-ion
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Non-Wires Alternative
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A lithium-ion battery that can provide
multiple hours of backup power in the event
of a grid interruption
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Typical Containerized ESS
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Building Enclosure Examples
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Utility ‘the other Infrastructure’
Grid
Modernization
PEOPLE &
PLATFORMSPOLICY &
PLANNING
PROJECTS &
PROGRAMS
[ enable & empower]
• Staffing & resources
• Partnerships
• Education, training,
& outreach
[ design & deliver ]
• Infrastructure
upgrades
• Community microgrids
• Energy storage
[ innovate & transform ]
• Goals & targets
• Resiliency & reliability
• Systems thinking & integration
Questions?
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Mark EvlynAssociate Director
Moderated Discussion
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Moderator: Tom Rooney
Program Co-Chair
Vice President, Advanced Energy Services
TRC
Closing Remarks
Environmental Business Council of New England
Energy Environment Economy
Marc Bergeron
Chair, EBC Energy Resources Committee
Associate, Epsilon Associates, Inc.
