NSTAR Smart Grid Pilot

Technical Report · Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1210191· OSTI ID:1210191

Rabari, Anil ^[1]; Fadipe, Oloruntomi ^[1]

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1. NSTAR Electric, Manchester, NH (United States)

NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (“the Company”, or “NSTAR”) developed and implemented a Smart Grid pilot program beginning in 2010 to demonstrate the viability of leveraging existing automated meter reading (“AMR”) deployments to provide much of the Smart Grid functionality of advanced metering infrastructure (“AMI”), but without the large capital investment that AMI rollouts typically entail. In particular, a central objective of the Smart Energy Pilot was to enable residential dynamic pricing (time-of-use “TOU” and critical peak rates and rebates) and two-way direct load control (“DLC”) by continually capturing AMR meter data transmissions and communicating through customer-sited broadband connections in conjunction with a standardsbased home area network (“HAN”). The pilot was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (“DOE”) through the Smart Grid Demonstration program. NSTAR was very pleased to not only receive the funding support from DOE, but the guidance and support of the DOE throughout the pilot. NSTAR is also pleased to report to the DOE that it was able to execute and deliver a successful pilot on time and on budget. NSTAR looks for future opportunities to work with the DOE and others in future smart grid projects.

• Research Organization: NSTAR Electric, Manchester, NH (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: OE0000292
• OSTI ID: 1210191
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English