Public Power Market Survey June 2020

Grid Resiliency Preparedness - Baseline Setting

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* 1. Please provide your contact information.

Name

Company

Title

Address

City/Town

State/Province

ZIP/Postal Code

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 2. Number of Meters

< 25,000 meters

25,000 to 75,000 meters

75,000 to 150,000 meters

150,000 to 200,000 meters

> 200,000 meters

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* 3. Budget Cycle

January - December

July - June

April - March

September - August

Other (please specify)

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* 4. SCADA Deployment at Substations

< 10% of substations have SCADA

10% to 30%

30% - 60%

60% - 90%

> 90% of substations have SCADA

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* 5. Communication to Field Devices

RF Mesh – L+G

RF Mesh – Itron/SSN

Cellular – AT&T

Cellular – Verizon

Fiber

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Substation Relays

Low- Electro-mechanical relays at all substations

Intermediate- some microprocessor-based relays

Medium- all microprocessor-based relays

High- all microprocessor-based relays with remote waveform/event download

Very high- all microprocessor-based relays are connected to SCADA/ADMS

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* 7. Grid Monitoring strategy over the next 12 months

Low- No faulted circuit indicators (FCIs) on wires currently

Intermediate- non-communicating FCIs only

Medium- deploying communicating intelligent sensors on feeders in next 12 months

High – major overhead coverage today; looking at underground sensors in next 12 months

Very high- Adding low load sensors at important tie points and laterals as well

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* 8. Dispatch Situational Awareness

Low- manual reactive based on calls into dispatch center

Intermediate- SCADA integration from substations; phone calls for individual outages

Medium- AMI provides last gasp messages into OMS

High – AMI/SCADA/ADMS integrated to GIS for network context

Very high- Adding sensors to monitor real-time grid behavior during major events; integrating vegetation, equipment, weather data to grid for better context