SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Next Generation Electric Smart Meters
- Notice Date
- 7/25/2023 7:39:26 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- Contracting Office
- LLNS � DOE CONTRACTOR Livermore CA 94551 USA
- ZIP Code
- 94551
- Solicitation Number
- IL-13322andIL-13323
- Response Due
- 8/24/2023 8:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 09/08/2023
- Point of Contact
- Jared Lynch, Phone: 9254226667, Charlotte Eng, Phone: 9254221905
- E-Mail Address
-
lynch36@llnl.gov, eng23@llnl.gov
(lynch36@llnl.gov, eng23@llnl.gov)
- Description
- Opportunity: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract no. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to enter into a collaboration to further develop and commercialize its smart electric meter designs for individual homes or buildings with options for miniaturized chip scale atomic clocks to support time synchronization in absence of GPS. Background: An electric meter measures the amount of electric energy consumed by residential, commercial, or industrial customers. Currently, smart meters are primarily used for billing purposes. However, advanced electric meter technology could enable accurate monitoring and control of voltage stability.� Voltage stability could be mitigated at the end user level if every end user has sufficient real and reactive power control.� There is a downside to this approach since load can have very diverse behaviors at the building level as opposed to at the bulk power system where loads are studied in aggregation. Such diversity poses challenges to voltage stability monitoring. The voltage stability monitoring algorithms designed for transmission systems cannot be directly applied to the smart meter data.� The major challenges with current smart meters are the low time accuracy and low sampling rate. In the U.S., most smart meters select a real-time clock (RTC) as a timing source to report customer energy demand (kW) and consumption (kWh) at time intervals on the order of tens of minutes. For power providers, these time intervals are too large and may lead to monitoring failure for grid events, especially the grid transient event. Description: LLNL inventors have developed a smart meter device which consists of three functions: a machine learning based critical voltage characteristics detection algorithm, a real-time voltage stability monitoring algorithm using smart meter measurements, and a control algorithm that proactively sends signal to house/building controllable loads and distributed energy resources to request reactive power support or reduce real power consumption.� Furthermore, there is the option to include chip-scale atomic clocks and GPS to perform independent stable time synchronization which adopts a compact design that can simplify installation and maintenance on the smart meter device.� This innovation accurately synchronizes an atomic clock or GPS timing system to events recorded by the smart meter. Advantages/Benefits:� The smart meter device: enables real-time voltage stability margin estimation conducts real and reactive power control at an individual phase of an individual house or building. enhances existing smart meter technology with voltage stability monitoring which enabling more granular active/reactive power control at an individual building level.� The compact, modular chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) enabled synchro electricity meter option (Patent No. 11,496,143) can perform fast and flexible time-synchronized measurements at the consumer end.� This allows for measurement of consumer behavior with time synchronization and fixable sampling frequency greatly enhancing the quality and capability of smart meter data. The CSAC can provide pulse per second (PPS) signals independently with high-precision and high-stability. �This enables: Improvement of system-level load data usability. With the time tag from CSAC or GPS, the metering data obtained from different locations can be efficiently synchronized and sorted for system-level studies. Time-synchronized smart meter data can be used for advanced data analytics and machine learning applications. Potential Applications:� Almost half of all U.S. electricity customer accounts have smart meters, where 70.8 million advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) were installed by 2016 and 88% of the AMI installations were residential customer installations. Those smart meters have a general life span of 10 to 15 years. Thus, there currently is a big market for the next-generation of smart meters. In addition, under California law new homes must come with solar panels, thus a requirement for high resolution is on the horizon. With 4-quadrant smart inverter control, the distributed energy resources (DERs) such as photovoltaics (PVs) which have both real/reactive controllability may help mitigate voltage stability in a more efficient and prompt manner.� The proposed new smart meter is designed with advanced functionalities and upgraded performances. It can help utilities and customers address lots of technical problems.� Ability to coordinate time synchronized smart meter (SSM) with Seismometer. PG&E has lead a SmartMeter and Seismometer project to identify the relationship between electricity delivery and ground motions under earthquakes. The proposed SSM can provide high-speed, high-accuracy, time-synchronized measurement at customer end. Development Status:� Current stage of technology development:� TRL 2 LLNL has filed for patent protection on this invention. U.S. Patent Application No. �2021/0055334 VOLTAGE STABILITY SMART METER published 2/25/2022 U.S. Patent No. 11,496,143 Synchronized electric meter having an atomic clock published 11/8/2022 LLNL is seeking industry partners with a demonstrated ability to bring such inventions to the market. Moving critical technology beyond the Laboratory to the commercial world helps our licensees gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. All licensing activities are conducted under policies relating to the strict nondisclosure of company proprietary information.� Please visit the IPO website at https://ipo.llnl.gov/resources for more information on working with LLNL and the industrial partnering and technology transfer process. Note:� THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT.� Companies interested in commercializing LLNL's Next Generation Electric Smart Meters should provide an electronic OR written statement of interest, which includes the following: Company Name and address. The name, address, and telephone number of a point of contact. A description of corporate expertise and/or facilities relevant to commercializing this technology. Please provide a complete electronic OR written statement to ensure consideration of your interest in LLNL's Next Generation Electric Smart Meters. The subject heading in an email response should include the Notice ID and/or the title of LLNL�s Technology/Business Opportunity and directed to the Primary and Secondary Point of Contacts listed below. Written responses should be directed to: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Innovation and Partnerships Office P.O. Box 808, L-779 Livermore, CA� 94551-0808 Attention:�� IL-13322 and IL-13323
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- Address: Livermore, CA, USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
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