SMART METERING

PROGRAM

THE GRID IS THE BACKBONE OF OUR ECONOMY…

• Powers your homes – lights, appliances, personal technology

• Powers industry – mills, mines, manufacturing plants

• Powers commercial buildings – malls, offices, stores, greenhouses

• Powers infrastructure – telecommunications, data centres, cable networks,

transit systems, airports

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THE ELECTRICITY SYSTEM IS LARGE & COMPLEX

Generation

41 Dam sites, 30 Hydro facilities

and 9 Thermal units

Transmission

18,000 km of Transmission lines

260 substations, 22,000 steel

towers

One Control Center

Consolidation of 4 regional

systems (including back-up)

Interconnect to Alberta and US

Distribution

56,000 km of Distribution lines

Approx. 900K poles, over 300K

of transformers

Serve 17 Non-integrated areas

Demand on our electricity system is growing

• 40% more electricity over next 20 years

Our infrastructure is aging

• Investments in our electricity grid have not kept

pace with today’s global economy

• Most recent BC Hydro generating facility

completed in 1984

• System of electro-mechanical meters hasn’t

been upgraded in 50 years

Smart metering is the first step to a modern grid

• A more efficient system will save energy and

money keeping Hydro rates lower than they

would be without the upgrades.

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WHY DO WE NEED TO MODERNIZE?

PROGRAM SCOPE

• Install distribution grid meters

• Develop theft analytics software

• Identify electricity loss, including

diversion and theft

SYSTEM METERING

• Upgrade old meters to smart meters

• Install meter communications network

• Implement automated data collection

system

NEW METERS

• Adopt standards for clean energy transportation

• Support micro-grids & distributed generation

• Enable an intelligent, self-healing grid that can

accommodate two-way flow of electricity

GRID MODERNIZATION

• Launch new conservation website

Introduce in-home display devices

IN-HOME FEEDBACK TOOLS

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GET LIGHTS ON FASTER, SAFER…

• Meter reports disconnections to pinpoint outages faster

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REDUCE ELECTRICITY THEFT…

• Analyze and detect theft before damage occurs

• Improve safety for communities, first responders, and field crews.

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• System efficiencies to reduce electricity waste and

improve power quality – ex. voltage regulation

• Enable long-term distribution system planning

COST SAVINGS…

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

SOURCE: EPRI; Plug-in America; Rocky Mountain Institute; Deutsche Bank: Electric cars – Plugged-in (06/2008)

Projected number of EVs in BC

Thousands of EVs

25,000-

32,000 EVs

by 2013

1.0 million-1.3

million EVs

by 2030

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SMALL-SCALE GENERATION

• Community power generation

• Sell excess energy back to the grid

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Demonstration Project announced with NRCan

Install 2 x 1 MW of battery storage

ENERGY STORAGE

Courtesy: J.E. Reveal, American Electric Power 11

IREQ’s LineScout Robot Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

• High resolution

imaging and infrared

• Corrosion detection

• Conductor / splice

condition assessment

• Repairs

Equipment Sensing Dynamic line ratings Weather & climate modeling / response

SMARTER TRANSMISSIONS

SYSTEM WIDE SENSING AND VISIBILITY

Historical Feedback (websites & mobile apps)

IN-HOME FEEDBACK TOOLS

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WHAT BC HYDRO SEES…

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SAMPLE WHOLE HOUSE KWH LOAD - MARCH 21 TO MARCH 27, 2011

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SMART METERS FOR A SUSTAINABLE B.C.

REDUCE WASTED ELECTRICITY

HELP CUSTOMERS MANAGE THEIR

OWN ENERGY USE

CREATE GREEN JOBS AND ECONOMIC

OPPORTUNITIES

PREPARE BC HYDRO’S SYSTEM FOR

INNOVATIONS LIKE ELECTRIC VEHICLES

THAT WILL HELP REDUCE GHGS

ENABLE SMALL-SCALE ELECTRICITY

GENERATION BY CUSTOMERS AND

COMMUNITIES

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• Advertisement in local papers 6 weeks before installation in each community

• Notification letter 3 weeks before installation

• Door hanger explaining new smart meters, the benefits and commonly asked questions

WHAT CAN CUSTOMERS EXPECT?

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PROJECT STATUS

Over 785,000 meters installed Installation target of over 1M meters

by spring 2012

Full project installation of 1.9M meters

On target for completion Dec 31, 2012

Meter installation underway in: Richmond

Delta, Tsawwassen, Ladner

Surrey, White Rock, Cloverdale

Prince George

Smithers

Kitimat

Prince Rupert

Nanaimo

Victoria

Vancouver, Burnaby

Williams Lake, Kamloops,100 Mile House

RADIO FREQUENCY AND SAFETY

• Power signal less than 1/100th of cell phone (2 µW/cm2)*

• 50% below world’s strictest regulation - Switzerland’s precautionary limits for

highly sensitive areas such as schools and hospitals (4.5 µW/cm2)

• Equipped with a radio that is 1/5th of the power of handheld 2-way radio

• Communicates less than 1 minute per day in total

• Installed in existing meter sockets outside customer homes

• Radio frequency from a smart meter—over its entire 20-year life span—is

equivalent to the exposure during a single 30 minute cell phone call.

19 * Health Canada Safety Code 6 Limit for Public Exposure at 900MHz is 600 µW/cm2

SAFETY CODE 6 CERTIFICATION – SMART METERS

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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN CONTEXT

267 Agents in WHO’s Category 2B Classification

WHO Statements

• “(We are) concerned about cell phones, but not smart meters. ‘It sort of sounds,

I wouldn't say specious, but far-fetched, really,’ said Daniel Epstein, spokesman

for the WHO's Americas region.” (Jan 2011)

• “(The Danish cohort) study showed no link between mobile phone use, including

longer term use of more than 10 years, and the risk of glioma or any other brain

tumour. These are new results that were not available at the time of the IARC

Monographs meeting.” (Oct 2011)

• Cars

• School Buses

• Boats

• Ferries

• Asphalt

• Coffee

• Pickled Veggie

• Sunscreen(TiO2)

• Baby Powder

• Chalk

• Carpentry

• Fire Fighting

• Dry Cleaning

• Shift Work

• Printing Shops

• Pager/ Med Alert

• Radios/ TVs

• GPS, Retail POS

• Cell Phones

• Appliances

Q&A

Please visit www.bchydro.com/smartmeters

for the most up-to-date information.

SmartMeters@bchydro.com

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WHAT IS NEW ABOUT SMART METERS? OLD METER SMART METER

• Captures only electricity consumption

• Captures voltage, power quality

measurements, interval (time-stamped)

data information as well as electricity

consumption

• No communication capability

• Integrated two-way communication

between the meter and BC Hydro, and

the meter and the premise

• No outage detection

• Automated outage detection and

notification – “last gasp” and “first

breath”

• No tamper detection

• Automated meter tamper alarms and

support for theft detection and other

analytics

• Manual on-site meter reading

• Manual meter connects and

disconnects

• Automated and on-demand meter

readings

• Remote meter connect and disconnects

• Disconnect policy remains the same

• Estimated cost and consumption

feedback provided through bi-monthly

bills only

• Customer cost and consumption

feedback provided in near real-time via

multiple choices

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