CloudFuzion solutions for the Smart Grid

Technology for the SMART GRID

Transmission and Distribution
Automation Solutions

Jan 2012

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Agenda for Presentation
• Axceleon Smart Grid Mission & Opportunities
• Axceleon Overview
• Customer Sample
• Smart Grid Domains
• Opportunities for CloudFuzion in Smart Grid Domains
• CloudFuzion Solutions for Smart Grid Domains
• Axceleon Products
– EnFuzion®3D
– CloudFuzion®
• CloudFuzion Applications & How it works?
• CloudFuzion & PSLF
• Power Studies in the Cloud
• Summary

Axceleon Mission: To help the Smart Grid run
more efficiently and reliably
*Challenges faced by the Smart Grid
• Transmission automation technologies well known but
financially challenged, near real time analytics needed
• Distribution technologies not well understood also
financially challenged, near real time analytics needed
Opportunities for CloudFuzion Technology
• Enable the smart grid to better use the available capacity
of its infrastructure by flattening load profiles
• Provide Smart-grid technologies to address transmission
congestion issues through demand response and
controllable load
• Enable better Smart-grid control systems and tools
targeted at responding to imbalances and reducing
outage events
• * Courtesy of PNNL Copyright © 2012 Axceleon Intellectual Property All rights reserved

• Axceleon builds software to accelerate time to results for high performance
computing (HPC) applications on HPC clusters, Private and Public Clouds

• Headquartered in Southern California
• Research partners with Universities around the globe, focused on bringing
HPC research to market
• Deployed in 27 countries, 11 Fortune 100 companies among its customers
• Hardware Partner Deployments: IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle, SGI and BOXX
• ISV Partners: GE, Siemens, Autodesk, Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Novell, Red
Hat, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Maxon, The Foundry and many others

• System integrators in the US, Japan, China, Asean and Europe that focus on
clustering within the various vertical markets, 3D, HPC etc..

Customer Success Stories
Mission Critical Engineering

PowerGEM


SMART GRID Domains

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Smart Grid Domains
• Bulk Generation
• Electricity generation from other forms of energy, chemical combustion to
nuclear fission, flowing water, wind, solar radiation and geothermal heat
• Transmission
• Bulk transfer of electrical power from generation sources to distribution
• Distribution
• Distributes Electricity to and from the End Customer
• Customer
• The Customer domain is electrically connected to the Distribution domain
• Operations
• Manages the distribution of electricity to and from the End Customer
• Markets
• Pricing or balance supply and demand within the power system
• Service Provider
• Organizations providing services to electrical customers and utilities


CloudFuzion Enabled Smart Grid Solutions
Objective: To build software components to help analyze,
coordinate, operate Transmission, Distribution
& Markets Domains
• Transmission: Near Real-Time results from Electrical
Transmission Analysis applications for Operations /Planning
• Simulating, Analyzing, and Optimizing Power System
• Stochastic forecasting of Wind/Solar renewables etc.
• Demand Response Analysis
• Distribution: Integrating workflows from disparate
Applications for improved Power System Modelling &
Management
• Power System Analysis and Visualization
• System modeling, Optimization of Power Dispatches
• Outage and Restoration Management
• Markets: Analysis of Big Data associated with Smart Grid
Markets Analyses especially Locational Margin Pricing

Recent IEEE Meeting on the Smart Grid
• Modeling and analysis of demand response programs and
energy resources is a key next step in smart grid integration,
according to an IEEE panel of energy and utility professionals
@ IEEE Innovation Smart Grid (ISG) conference in
Washington, DC. January 2012

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is working with the
U.S. Department of Energy to develop mathematical
modeling and analysis tools to accelerate performance and
grid resilience, as well as to predict how the smart grid may
respond to certain events

• Tom King, a power grid expert with ORNL, said the goal is to
create a "look-ahead" simulator to aid in creating more
efficient demand response programs and understanding
where the grid is the most strained
• It’s all about Accelerating Analytics = CloudFuzion

Target > Transmission Domain
 Transmission: Transfer of power from generation to distribution
 Challenges: Balancing generation with load across network and maintaining stability


Transmission Domain:
• Bulk transfer of electrical power from generation
sources to distribution

• Connected to the Bulk Generation and Distribution
domains

• Transmission network is typically operated by Regional
Transmission Operator or Independent System Operator
(RTO/ISO)

• Contains distributed energy resources such as electrical
storage and/or peaking generation units

• Responsibility to maintain stability on the electric grid
by balancing generation (supply) with load (demand)
across the transmission network

Transmission: CloudFuzion Solution Stack
• Accelerated execution of simulations and power analysis
algorithms such as DSA applications used in electrical network
and power grid management and modeling, can be 1000+ times
• Ability to run many hundreds of simulations and analyses in
parallel solutions , delivering near real time results with no
sacrifice in accuracy
• Hardware acceleration, applying additional processing power,
through core management and clusters of machines

Benefits
Automated Workflows quickly developed and easily customized
Removes the need for burdensome Manual “Job processing”
Integrated PSLF/SSTOOLS output(s) with other on-premise apps
Delivers more studies faster needed to optimize the operational
agility, responsiveness & reliability requirements for Smart Grid


Target > Distribution Domain
 Distribution: Distributes power to and from the End Customer
 Challenges: Load is complicated, want off asap, must be brought back in stages
to optimize load profile. Managing self-supporting “micro-grids”


Distribution Domain:
• Distributes Electricity to and from the End Customer

• Connects Smart Meters and all Intelligent field devices

• Management & Control via two-way communications

• Connects to Energy Storage facilities and alternative
Distributed energy resources capable of generating
power

• Distribution Networks built with much interconnection,
extensive monitoring and control devices

• Can break into self-supporting "micro-grids" when a
problem occurs and customers may not even be aware
of it

Distribution: CloudFuzion Solution Stack
• Accelerated execution of simulations and power analysis
algorithms to model “micro-grids”, distributed generation etc.
• Application parallelization, dividing applications to execute
independent tasks concurrently
• Hardware acceleration, applying additional processing power,
through core management and clusters of machines
Benefits
Benefits Power / Electrical network management that require
fast, accurate decision-making in order to optimize the electrical
Distribution network , maximize market potential and manage
associated safety and reliability risks
Provides robust information needed now for better operational
decisions
Provides the data needed to optimize the operating state to
realize value in system through increased revenue and longevity
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in the Distribution domain

Target > Markets Domain
 Transmission: Balance supply and demand within the power system
 Challenges: Managing the market needs from generation, transmission & distribution


Markets Domain:
• Pricing or balance supply and demand within the power
system

• Interfaces between Markets domain and domains
containing Generation are most critical

• Efficient matching of production with consumption
relies on markets

• Distributed energy resources (DERs) participate in
markets to some extent today

• DERs will participate to a greater extent as the smart
grid becomes more interactive


Markets: CloudFuzion Solution Stack
• Accelerated execution of LMP (Locational Margin
Pricing) type studies delivering near real-time results
• Application parallelization, dividing applications to
execute independent tasks concurrently
• Enables the integration of various Market type study
applications so results and data flow easily between
these different apps.
Benefits
• Better/Faster LMP data allows more efficient use of the transmission
system when congestion occurs on the bulk power grid

• Better/Faster LMP data improves the efficiency of the wholesale
electricity market by ensuring that the cost of congestion is reflected
in electricity prices and ensures that the least-cost supply of
electricity is delivered while respecting the physical limitation of the
Distribution network

Workflow Management Applications on the Cloud

Mission critical, 100% redundant stable Applications Driven Workflows for Cloud
easy to use workload management, Computing. Cloud launch, management and
cluster control software cloud cluster controls designed in

Applications for CloudFuzion

Typical
Applications Applications
Power Flow Input data can be on
Power Flow local machine or on a Input
Limit Equations
server and moved as Data
Transfer Limits N-2 Studies needed during
Data Mining initialization
N-1 / N-2 Studies
LMP
Contingency Analysis
Interim data Interim
Transient Stability storage is on nodes Data
CloudFuzion
LMP Applications

Accelerate Excel
Windows Results are stored on
Operations Usage Linux local machine or Results
server and available
Dynamic Stability
Unix for future runs


How Does EnFuzion Work
The configuration below shows a typical multi-user environment
Types of Computers:
• Control Computer - one
• Worker Computers - many 3. EnFuzion stores results and
• User Computers - many cleans up the worker machines

4. Users retrieve results

Worker Computers
(Nodes)
EnFuzion Control Computer
User Computers
(Root)
(Submit)

Desktops

2. EnFuzion distributes, manages Compute Cluster
1. Users submit jobs
and executes jobs on worker
machines until completion
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Cores Usage: Single-threaded Applications
Single-threaded applications on their own can only utilize one of
the available logical processors on a system leaving the other idle

Core 1
Input Data Sets Output Data Sets
Core 2

Core 3

Core 4
Core Utilized
CPU Core Idle


CloudFuzion: Multiple Data Streams, One to each core
CloudFuzion manages multiple PSLF data streams among multiple
execution cores to produce more results per unit of time

Input Data Sets Output Data Sets

C C
Core 1 L
L
Input Data Sets O
O
U U
Core 2 D
D
U F
Z Core 3 U
I Z
O I
N Core 4 O
Core Utilized N
CPU
Core Idle


CloudFuzion Expediting GE PSLF Execution

• CloudFuzion manages PSLF contingency cases transparently COMPUTE CLUSTER
• Run times are reduced proportionally to the number of (DESKTOPS)
processors and/or cores used
• Can be dedicated compute cluster or desktops PSLF
• CloudFuzion will utilize all cores in a multi-core computer PSLF

PSLF Contingencies
PSLF

Results
PSLF
PSLF
PSLF
PSLF
Desktop CloudFuzion PSLF
Laptop Server/Scheduler
Results PSLF
Remote Access
Analysis


Potential GE PSLF in the Real Time Environment
• Direct interface to EMS for system snapshot COMPUTE CLUSTER
• Automatically perform (behind the scenes) analyses (DESKTOPS)

• Results are customized using Python
PSLF
PSLF

PSLF Contingencies
PSLF
Auto File

Results
Load Flow/ PSLF
EMS Convert &
State Est. PSLF
Solution Transfer
PSLF
PSLF
CloudFuzion PSLF
Server/ Scheduler
Results PSLF
Analysis


CloudFuzion for the Smart Grid
The Easy Button for Applications Acceleration
• Applications, Applications , Applications - It’s all about
accelerating Applications for use in the Smart Grid
• Automated, optimized workflow driven execution for
Electrical Transmission Analysis applications
• Integrated workflows from dispirit Applications for improved
Power System Modelling & Management
• Power System Analysis and Visualization
• System modeling, Optimization of Power Dispatches

• Easy Analysis of Big Data associated with Smart Grid Markets
Analyses especially Locational Margin Pricing


Opportunities for the Smart Grid & the Cloud
• Access:
• Internet access becoming pervasive and a priority
• Big Data:
• Fast encrypted transfer methods to move Big Data
• Big Memory, high core count machines in the cloud
• Rapid data processing in the cloud
• Applications:
• All candidates for the cloud
• SaaS for many Applications showing up
• Security:
• Clouds are secure, safe, resilient, encrypted
• Azure has ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certification and
SAS 70 Type 1 and II attestations

CloudFuzion Cloud Power Studies Workflow & Management
1. One Click Cloud (Azure) HPC Cluster
2. No change in Power Engineer Workflow  Intelligent Cloud and
3. Automatically Processed Cluster Control
4. Alerts, Updates & Management Azure Cloud  Automated Workflows
 Managed to SLA /QoS
Fast Data  Lights Out Operation
Transfer
Power Application
Engineer > Prep Power Study for Azure Auto File
Workstation Retrieval

 High speed transport to/from Cloud
Central Data Repository  Contingency Analysis results returned as Built
 Option to download all at one time
 Status viewable via CF Web GUI


CloudFuzion Workflow & Cloud Cluster Data Movement
 Drag work to Drop
 Intelligent Cloud and
Box / Web Portal
Cluster Control
 Automatically
Processed AZURE  Automated Workflows
 Managed to SLA /QoS
 High speed Big
 Lights Out Operation
Data Xfer to cloud

CloudFuzion

CloudFuzion
Power/Energy
Engineering

Big Output
Data Reports
Input Work
Results

 Managed to defined Quality
Metrics and standards
 Monitors, Alerts and Actions
AZURE


Summary:
• Challenges faced by the Smart Grid
– Transmission: Balancing generation with load across network and maintaining stability
Distribution: Load is complicated, want off asap, must be brought back in stages to
optimize load profile. Managing self-supporting “micro-grids”
– Markets: Managing the market needs from generation, transmission & distribution

• Opportunities for CloudFuzion in the following Smart Grid Domains
– Transmission
– Distribution
– Markets

• How we can help
– 100% Application focused – Enabling Applications for the Smart Grid & the cloud
– Focused on User Workflows and integrating CloudFuzion directly with applications so End
User launches computation jobs from within the Application, minimal thinking required
– Workflow and cloud management can be manual, automated as part of Job, (start/stop n
nodes), cost managed and budgeted
– CloudFuzion team can help with Applications integration, deployment, cluster deployment
on Microsoft Azure
– The result: faster electrical network analysis and more effective operations management
and optimized market opportunity to help the Smart Grid run more efficiently and reliably


Thank you
Please visit http://www.CloudFuzion.com

Mike Duffy
Mike.Duffy@CloudFuzion.com
+1 714 960 5200


Appendix
- Case Studies, EWEB & PowerLink
- Typical Power Study Workflow


Case Study: EWEB - Eugene Oregon USA.
The utility is a small load serving entity utilizing 30 plus 115kV circuits while running
<100 MW of mixed generation. System is not complex but does parallel major 500kV
and 230kV bulk grid facilities. Based on NERC definitions this company must comply
with the applicable standards annually.
Based on discovery work, the study plan and scheme for EnFuzion were in a
preliminary state such as to be easily manipulated into required run scheme. Previous
year study time for man-machine were in the ~4 man-month period. This is suggestive
¼ to ½ FTE will be consumed annually for a redundant workload.
EnFuzion process integration reduced this work load from months to hours. EnFuzion
managed the process phase to allow the engineer to focus back to the primary work
function doing performance reviews-assessments and defining options for critical
issues faced by the utility. No bulk data-entry phase was ensued nor was the machine
management required. The merging of the process manager with the engineer
function resulted in a 20 to 1 cost benefit.
Time spent was one man-week for annual setup, one process-day (13hours), and one
man-week for review and documentation. 2 weeks versus 16+ weeks from the prior
year.


Case Study: EWEB - Eugene Oregon USA.
Solution Description EWEB is a load serving entity utilizing Solution Components
30 plus 115kV circuits, running <100
MW of mixed generation. System also parallels a major 500kV and 230kV bulk Software
grid facilities and must meet NERC standards. Previous year study time for  EnFuzionPower
man-machine were 4+ man months, ¼ to ½ FTE annually. Time spent was one  GE PSLF software
man-week for annual setup, one process-day (13hours), and one man-week for - Operating Systems
review and reporting. 2 weeks versus 16+ from the prior year. The merging of  Windows 7 & Windows Server
the process manager with the engineer function resulted in a 20 to 1 cost Hardware
benefit.  Internal Intel based HP 8 core
machines in HB Calif.
Value Proposition
Services Provided
For The Planning Engineer  On-Site Discovery and switch
• Automated run scheduling & management file and data development
• Reduces errors & labor intensive work  Data preparation for EnFuzion
• Gets results faster, uses multiple machines  EnFuzion PSLF execution
• Easy to setup and simple to use and reuse  Reports generation and delivery
For The IT Department;
• Secure, roll out is quick & easy
• Logging / Scalable / Fault Tolerance References / Experiences
• Optimizes all available IT assets • Powerlink – 30+ Planning engineers on EnFuzion since 2003
• Works with Homegrown & 3rd Party Apps.
• EDF / RTE – French Utility has designed EnFuzion in Software used
• Resource Management capability
For The Power Company; for Reliability & Security simulations & analysis, 2003
• Reduces Operational Costs • Europe: UK National Grid, Scottish Power, Denmark , Belgium
• Increases Reliability and Safety • US Utilities: SPP, PJM, ISO-NE, FLP, Entegy, BPA, UI
• Increases Plant and Asset utilization • Others: Korea Power Exchange. FinnGrid TRC, RLC, PowerGem
• Improves Profitability and Productivity • Universities: Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Manchester, Univ. of Iowa
• Regulation Requirements met (NERC)

Case Study: Powerlink - Queensland Australia.
Solution Description Powerlink’s $5.6 Billion network Solution Components
extends 1100 miles, about ½ of
Australia’s eastern seaboard and supports multiple energy companies. Software
EnFuzionPower is used to run all Planning and Operational studies for  EnFuzionPower
the company. Powerlink have fully integrated EnFuzion into their  Home Grown & Industry Apps.
workflow and for all transmission studies. They use EnFuzion to Operating Systems
accelerate their Excel spreadsheet work along with home grown apps.  Windows XP & Windows Server
EnFuzion offers the ability to automate & accelerate complex power Hardware
simulations, analysis & optimization of their T&D Network.  IBM HPC Cluster, 120 nodes
Services
Value Proposition  Professional Services
For The Planning Engineer  Training & Support
• Automated run scheduling & management  Software updates
• Reduces errors & labor intensive work
• Gets results faster, uses multiple machines
• Easy to setup and simple to use
For The IT Department;
• Secure, roll out is quick & easy
• Logging / Scalable / Fault Tolerance References / Experiences
• Optimizes all available IT assets • Powerlink – 30+ Planning engineers on EnFuzion since 2003
• Works with Homegrown & 3rd Party Apps.
• EDF / RTE – French Utility has designed EnFuzion in Software
• Resource Management capability
For The Power Company; used for Reliability & Security simulations & analysis, 2003
• Reduces Operational Costs • Europe: UK National Grid, Scottish Power, Denmark , Belgium
• Increases Reliability and Safety • US Utilities: SPP, PJM, ISO-NE, FLP, Entegy, BPA, UI, EWEB
• Increases Plant and Asset utilization • Others: Korea Power Exchange. FinnGrid TRC, RLC, PowerGem
• Improves Profitability and Productivity • Universities: Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Manchester, Univ. of Iowa
• Regulation Requirements met (NERC)

CloudFuzion Power Workflow Management (WECC standards)

• Study Cases (Case 1>n)
• Master files developed CloudFuzion Power
Regional Entity
Utility
Case 1
Workflows
Data Processing

Planning &
Case 2

Master Files Data PSLF Switch Files Plots/Reports
Operations (switch, .dyd,sav) Prep for EnF. Run & Saved Built & Saved
Teams
• Cases defined • Master files updated for CloudFuzion
Case 3

• Switch files built • Confirm the workflow, files, reports
• Other files needed • CloudFuzion executes & manages PSLF cases
• Results review, QA check and re-run

• Summary Reports
• Reports/results verified • Full Reports
• Re-run cases if/as needed • Full Data From Cases

Adobe .pdf Output to Planning Engineering
Reports
Quality & Operations
Built & Saved Review Teams
Review


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