EnerNex is working as a subcontractor to Booz Allen Hamilton on this engagement to support SEC in preparing for and developing Requests for Proposal, and performing technical due diligence on qualified bidders, for a planned AMI investment.
EnerNex provided primarily technical assistance on the project, including:
Support for a current state assessment
Business case assessment
System requirements for smart metering, head end systems, gateways, ...
EnerNex led Smart Wires in support of reviewing their existing product architecture for fundamental cybersecurity vulnerabilities and its ability to adapt to evolving industry cyber security requirements and best practices....
PJM has a transmission system that feeds electric power to 51 million people in 13 states. As part of the PJM requirement to meet national and regional standards, PJM looks into the future to identify situations that may require additional build out of transmission to avoid system overloads or look into operating practices to maintain reliability standards. Adding renewable energy to any generation system can have impacts on existing and future planning of...
EnerNex led the Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS), a culmination of an effort that spanned two and one-half years. The study team began by modeling wind resources in a large part of the Eastern Interconnection and finished by conducting a detailed wind integration study and top-down transmission analysis.
The study resulted in information that can be used to guide future work. A number of other studies had already examined similar ...
EnerNex was part of a team creating the Hawaiian Electric Company’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) regulatory application for smart grid investment. EnerNex updated the Smart Grid Roadmap that Hawaii Electric initially filed in the spring of 2014, by developing a Smart Grid Enterprise Architecture Map and providing input for Cost‐Benefit analysis.
EnerNex highlighted the integration and interoperability between systems necessary to both enable and ach...
EnerNex is gathering requirements for Grid Modernization in support of the SCE's Grid Modernization Architecture (GMA) Project. Our team is providing:
Input on equipment needs
Review of business applications of the equipment
Defining how the grid will operate
Background support for the team on power system operations
Providing architecture and requirement Subject Matter Expert (SME) support
Creating architecture diagrams and sequence diagrams from...
EnerNex helped design one of the largest campus microgrids in the country for a Fortune 50 company. The project challenges included:
High power quality needed for sensitive manufacturing processes
Need for a resilient system following a natural disaster
Providing renewable energy for over 1000 electric vehicle chargers on-site; and
Determining the optimal energy storage under uncertain future market prices
EnerNex’s design highlights include:
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EnerNex was retained by the New York/New Jersey Super Bowl Host Committee to do an independent assessment of the efforts by Public Service Enterprise Group (PSE&G) and the MetLife Stadium to prepare for Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. The game was the first Super Bowl to be hosted in a winter climate, on the heels of the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans where a power outage in the Superdome suspended play.
EnerNex evaluated the following areas:
Utility su...
AMI has attracted increased attention within the electric power industry in an effort to modernize and develop a more intelligent and reliable electric power system. Regulatory bodies are examining the feasibility of establishing conservation-based electricity pricing programs and implementing the smart metering necessary to support such pricing programs.
EnerNex assisted Entergy in evaluating options for possible deployment of AMI.
Tasks included:
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Progress Energy Florida installs switched shunt reactors on the 13.8 kV tertiary windings of their 500/230 kV transformer banks to reduce high system voltages during light load periods. Two 25 Mvar shunt reactors, Reactor #1 and Reactor #2 are installed on the 13.8 kV delta tertiary of the 500/230/13.8 kV autotransformer Bank #2 at the Central Florida 500 kV substation. The shunt reactors are switched with vacuum circuit breakers.
Progress Energy Flor...
