Energy Transition

Pranavamoorthy Balasubramanian
Energy Systems - Eaton Research Labs
Eaton India Innovation Center Pune
Date: 15 December 2020

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Agenda

• Energy mix and overview of electric power system

• Challenges

• Recent trends - enablers

• Opportunities

• Eaton solutions

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Agenda

• Energy mix and overview of electric power system

• Challenges

• Recent trends - enablers

• Opportunities

• Eaton solutions

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 Energy Transition – Electrification powered by renewables

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 Electricity to emerge as dominant energy source

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 Conventional grid

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 Power system planning and operations

• Forecasting – generation
(including DIR’s) and load
• Week ahead – outage
coordination
• Day ahead – unit commitment
and economic dispatch
• Real-time – economic dispatch

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Agenda

• Energy mix and overview of electric power system

• Challenges

• Enablers - recent trends

• Opportunities

• Eaton solutions

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Climate change

• Stronger and more Intense hurricanes

• More draughts
• Changes in precipitation patterns
• Sea Level Will Rise 1-8 feet by 2100

• Excessive dependence on fossil fuels

– negatively impacting the environment
• Environmental policies to restrict
emissions
- carbon tax, incentives for renewables
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https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
Lack of sufficient economic storage

• Pumped hydro – large scale

• Batteries – large scale and small scale

• Major portion of power instantly

generated and consumed

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 Increased penetration of wind and solar

• Operational challenges

• Managing scheduled and

unscheduled outages

• System stability concerns

• Frequency response

• Harmonics

• Focusing on reliability of the

system while ensuring
economic operations

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Evolving grid characteristics

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Agenda

• Energy mix and overview of electric power system

• Challenges

• Recent trends - enablers

• Opportunities

• Eaton solutions

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Advancements in computing power

• Forecasting
• Better accuracy and
granularity

• Control & Optimization

• Optimal control of assets
to provide a reliable and
resilient grid in the most
economic way

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 Advancements in Storage technology

• Exponentially decreasing cost of

battery storage
• Waste disposal is a challenge
• Advancements in hydrogen
storage holds promise

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 Electrification through e-mobility
• Europe bought more EV’s than Diesel’s in September 2020.
• Battery EV’s sales up by 120% - compared to September 2019.
• PHEV sales up by 268% year-on-year.

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Energy transition – priority for companies
• Global targets to reduce carbon emission and stringent environment policies

• Majority of companies plan for lower carbon future

• Gain competitive edge, reduce costs and improve the environment
• key drivers - digital technologies and customer support

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Agenda

• Energy mix and overview of electric power system

• Challenges

• Enablers - recent trends

• Opportunities

• Eaton solutions

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Recent progress in energy transformation

The world is moving towards more electric in

majority of sectors
• Transportation – EV, more electric aircrafts
• Residential buildings – solar PV (behind the
meter generation and consumption of energy)
• Commercial buildings – solar rooftops and EV
charging stations
• Global share of renewables set to increase
further

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 Global demand for electricity will nearly double by 2050

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Digital transformation focus – emerging themes

• Smart grid
• Smart homes
• Connected buildings
• Distributed generation
• Energy services
• Preventive maintenance
• Digital billing
• Digital commerce

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 Microgrids
• Enables local power generation for local loads – potentially reduce stress/losses on transmission
• Can operate both in island and grid connected mode – improves reliability
• Can result in substantial savings while reducing emissions
• Cost effective alternative to grid expansion

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Advanced grid management solutions

• Advanced computing infrastructure enables development of algorithms to better forecast, control and
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Onsite storage to help reduce utility cost of EV charging stations

• Station has 4 DC fast chargers – 50kW each

• 11 charging sessions occur between 4 am
and 7 pm
• In at least 1 instance, 2 cars charge
simultaneously
• BESS – 150 kWh, 75 kW
• Demand charge - $30 per kW. Fee based on
the highest kW drawn from utility during
any 15–30-minute interval in a month,
separate from any charge paid for actual
energy consumed

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Agenda

• Energy mix and overview of electric power system

• Challenges

• Enablers - recent trends

• Opportunities

• Eaton solutions

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Relevant products - Eaton

• xStorage (PQD EMEA)

• Energy Aware UPS

• EAS (DER site controller)

• Eaton Turnkey microgrid solutions

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 Microgrid solutions
• Power Xpert Energy Optimizer controller
• Peak shaving
• Renewable firming
• Islanded microgrids
• Frequency regulation

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 Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
• Strategic partnership of power management leader Eaton with pioneer in EV charging stations Green
Motion
• Enables intelligent EV charging as well as peak shaving to avoid expensive energy tariff periods
• Enables solar self-consumption optimization to further use renewable energy to power EVs
• Provides customers with a combined intelligent EV charging and energy storage solution
• A scalable and modular design to fit a wide range of applications in collective housing, commercial
buildings, shopping malls, universities, stadiums and airports

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 Energy aware UPS
• Achieves economic savings by intelligent storage management while performing the
primary function of providing backup to critical loads
• Intelligent algorithms enable optimal dispatch to achieve enhanced energy cost savings
to data center operators

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