1. 2012 Future of Energy Summit
Kaliyur Sridharan
Growth & Strategy Leader, Digital Energy

2. Smart Grid Opportunity Landscape
Power Generation Transmission & Distribution Commercial & Industrial Residential & Community
Copper Fiber Wireless
Industrial Communications
Core
Generation optimization Grid diagnostics & visualization Asset monitoring & diagnostics Smart meters
Renewable integration Reliability & demand forecasting Backup power mgmt & control Wireless AMI
Distributed generation mgmt Grid protection & control Energy management systems Smart appliances
Microgrids Fault detection & restoration Plant load management
Protection & control Wide area measurement system Protection & control
Substation digitization Sub-metering TOU Reporting
Transformers & voltage management
Distribution, outage mgmt systems
Geospatial information systems
Emerging Field Force Automation
Storage management Energy storage systems Demand management Home area networks
Intermittency Management Cyber security Demand response Renewable integration
Solutions as a Service Billing automation Demand response & TOU pricing
Advanced analytics Home energy use monitoring
SG network planning & design PHEV integration
Neighborhood Microgrids

3. GE Innovation Centres
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4. Calgary Customer Innovation Centre
Mining
Energy
Rail
Aviation
Capital
Home & Business
Capital
Healthcare
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GE Company Proprietary

5. Digital Energy - Grid IQ Center
TM
Research &
Manufacturing
Complex
o State of the art
demonstration
center
o Over 15 high
tech
collaboration
room
o Fully
accredited NPI
development
Lab
Opening Sept. 2012
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7. Smart Grid Fuels Innovation
Domain Application (P&C, Automation, Comms, Sensing, S/W……)
Develop IP creation/patents (solving problems with technology)
Innovation networks (customers, vendors, universities)
Research Fundamental technology development (IP investments)