Accenture & OGE Energy Corp. Announce Success of Smart Grid Program with Automated Equipment to Reduce Network Distribution D...
February 26 2018 - 7:59AM
Business Wire
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and OGE Energy Corp., the parent company of
Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E), Oklahoma’s largest
electricity provider, announced today that a seven-year smart-grid
program contributed to demand reduction targets by automating
control devices using digital technology. The Integrated Volt Var
(IVVC) program is part of OG&E’s strategy to drive efficiencies
and customer savings that have helped defer investments in power
plant capacity.
Accenture Consulting provided project management, distribution
planning, and evaluation, measurement and verification (EM&V)
services for the IVVC project. The Accenture team helped select
equipment and circuits, plan circuit changes, and create deployment
packages. OG&E and Accenture recently completed the seventh,
and final, year of IVVC deployment designed to achieve a
two-percent peak voltage reduction and a proportional reduction in
peak demand.
“We have worked with Structure, now part of Accenture, over the
years to reach this point of ongoing savings for our customers by
optimizing voltage and reducing demand,” said Cristi Killian,
manager of advanced grid operations and planning for OG&E. “In
addition, we now have much greater visibility into the everyday
operations of our distribution network so that our employees can
provide even better customer service as we continue our smart grid
journey.”
The IVVC project has enabled real-time voltage readings through
telemetry from multiple devices including load tap changers,
capacitor banks and voltage regulators as well as near real-time
voltage readings from customer meters for operational validation.
This has provided OG&E personnel in engineering, customer
service, and operations insight into system voltage allowing for
additional benefits, such as identifying and resolving customer
voltage issues and saving customers money by reducing
line-losses.
“OG&E continues to set the standard in creating the smart
grid of the future with the IVVC project,” said Mario Marchelli,
managing director who leads Accenture’s intelligent grid operations
practice in North America. “This project has been very rewarding
for everyone involved, and I thank the entire team for the close
collaboration by our companies to drive improved grid reliability
through automation.”
OG&E began working with the Structure Group in 2009, and
continued to work with Accenture after it acquired Structure in
2015, to help transform the distribution operations with an
integrated smart grid solution. The two companies focused on
integrating distribution automation, advanced metering, demand
response, cyber security and compliance.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 435,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
About Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company, a subsidiary of OGE Energy
Corp. (NYSE:OGE), is Oklahoma’s largest electric utility. For more
than a century, we have provided customers in Oklahoma and western
Arkansas the safe, reliable electricity needed to power their
businesses and homes at rates below the national average. Our
employees are committed to generating and delivering electricity,
protecting the environment and providing excellent service to our
more than 836,000 customers. OG&E has 6,700 MW of electric
generation capacity fueled by low-sulfur coal, natural gas, wind
and solar. OG&E is recognized as a leader in smart grid
technology, leveraging this platform to provide customers with the
award-winning SmartHours® program and setting the stage for an
electric vehicle program that will include some level of public
charging infrastructure, and advanced LED street and security
lighting. OG&E employees live, work and volunteer in the
communities we serve. For more information about OG&E, visit us
on the Internet at http://www.oge.com or follow us on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/ogepower and Twitter: @OGandE.
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