OHIO POWER COMPANY

Project Objectives: Our Project will achieve three primary objectives: (1) build a secure, interoperable, and integrated smart grid infrastructure in northeast central Ohio that demonstrates the ability to maximize distribution system efficiency and reliability and consumer use of demand response programs to reduce energy consumption, peak demand cost, and fossil fuel emissions; (2) actively attract, educate, enlist, and retain consumers in innovative business models that provide tools and information to reduce cost, consumption, and peak demand; and (3) provide to the Department of Energy (DOE) optimal information to evaluate technology and preferred smart grid business models to be extended nationally. Project Description: We have taken a community-based approach to leading the nation in smart energy. The Project incorporates a full suite of advanced grid technologies for 110,000 customers on a site selected for its concentration and diversity of distribution infrastructure and consumers. It is organized and aligned around three major methodologies: Technology Implementation, Consumer and Stakeholder Integration, and Data Management and Benefit Assessment. Combined, these functional areas serve as the foundation of the Project to integrate commercially available products, innovative technologies, and new consumer products and services within a secure two-way communication network between the utility and consumers. . In addition, the Project will incorporate comprehensive cyber security capabilities, interoperability, and a data assessment that, with grid simulation capabilities, will make the demonstration results a readily adaptable integrated solution for AEP and the nation.

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