FPL. Scott Blackburn AMI Business Manager. Florida Power & Light. Metering, Billing/CIS America 2008, San Diego, CA

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1 FPL Scott Blackburn AMI Business Manager Florida Power & Light

2 Florida Power & Light Largest FL Utility million customers 27,000 sq. miles of service territory Reliability much better than national average Investing to maintain reliability and meet growth Committed to meeting the growing power needs of our current and future customers 80% of customers are residential consuming ~50% of electricity

3 AMI Environment at FPL Ahead of regulation in Florida Not far ahead Not pushed yet Operational benefits (hard): Meter reading, high bill complaints, etc. Tamper identification Outage & restoration Prepare for customer drivers (soft): Rates (TOU, net metering) Energy management Real time feedback of consumption

4 FPL was an early adopter and continues to evaluate and apply emerging smart metering technologies Evolution of Smart Metering at FPL Business customers 2k smart meters 2000 Residential and small business project 34k enhanced Power Line Carrier (PLC) meters Hard to access premises 40k Power Line Carrier (PLC) meters Residential and small business project 16k Radio Frequency (RF) wireless Residential and small business project 50k IP based, RF Mesh meters

5 Installing an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is the foundation to transforming the way we do business Cutting edge edge technology using AMI AMI electronic metering replaces older older generation mechanical metering TODAY None Manual, Monthly Visual Customer Reported Monthly, Bill Communication Meter Reading Theft Theft Protection Power Outages Customer Usage Data Data TOMORROW Two-way, Continual data exchange Automated, Hourly, On request Automatic Network Reported Hourly, Web

6 How did we get there? Performed trials RF, PLC, RF Mesh Significant in size to prove capabilities Complete areas to prove benefits Confirmed core benefits through integration Built for full scale; utilized enterprise solutions Implemented MDM to fully evaluate data and ease integration (single point) Continually scanning market Utility benchmarking Vendor assessments Market drivers and capabilities

7 What are FPL s Plans? Monitoring Performance Metrics 4.4m Cyber Security Evaluation Accelerated Hardware Life Cycle Testing 3.3m Commercially Available Connect and Disconnect Functionality Validation Connect and Disconnect 2.3m 50k 100k Scale Validation 295k 1.3m Full Deployment Volumes Includes mass market residential and small business (non-demand) metered premises

8 What are we going to get out of AMI? Planned (day 1): On/off cycle billing Remote connect & disconnect Web presentment / next bill estimation Outage notification Restoration notification Theft detection Near Future (day 2): DSM Augmentation Time of use rates, PCT, price signals (orb) Net metering, PV Distribution asset sensing and automation

9 What are we going to get out of AMI? Future Innovations (day n): Customer Service Billing Options EV, dist storage, co-generation Home automation and control DA optimization Additional DA Control? * US Dept. of Energy AMI is the foundation of our smart grid to provide the platform for operational improvements and future innovations

10 What are our concerns? Future proof Use of standards , IPv6 Other adopters Interoperability, backhaul options Security Hackers (intended, unintended) NERC CIP Manufacturing / Supply Chain 2-3 large utilities would require millions/yr Device interoperability & standard options How to HAN? Through or around meter (Zigbee, zwave, 6LowPAN) Security, manufacturing, etc.

11 What does our team look like?

12 What will our team look like?

13 Questions??????