UAS Operations - Building The Business Case for the Energy Enterprise - Mitch Droz, Commercial Development Manager, Puget Sound Energy

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1. UAV Business Case Development Mitch Droz Commercial Development Manager
2. 2 Electric 1.1 million customers Natural Gas 790,000 customers Generation 3,500 megawatts Puget Sound Energy Headquarters Bellevue, WA
3. 3 Agenda Building the business case Developing drone operations Realized UAV benefits
4. 4 Wild Horse Wind Farm 149 Turbines PSE Owned
5. 5 Transmission LiDAR Mission • PSE pilots and Delair-Tech pilots • 4 miles of 230kV transmission line • LiDAR and orthomosaic
6. 6 Line Section, Points, Model, Ortho • After
7. 7 Fixed Wing: • Hydro dike inspections • Transmission LiDAR Multi-Rotor: • Hydro: LiDAR • T&D pole inspection • Communication video Use Cases
8. 8 Business Case Need Time $$ Business Case Development Need & Frequency Benefits Phases Budget Request
9. 9 Use Case Questions Need What is the need and scope? What is the frequency? Time What is the timeline? Benefits What is the drone team cost? What is the current cost and budget? What metrics are you improving?
10. 10 Establishing Strategy From Budgets
11. Program Development
12. Hardware Selection Fixed-wing Generation T&D Mapping Marketing Multi-rotor
13. 13 Software Selection
14. 14 Operation Documents Document Description Flight Operations Manual (FOM) Operation rules and standards SMS Manual Safety policies and procedures for complying with ICAO and FAA Accident-Incident Response (AIR) Manual Steps for a response plan Training Manual Requirements and training Standards Rules to fly on PSE’s system
15. 15 Pre Flight “It is not enough to simply comply with regulatory codes” 1. Concept of Operations 2. Mission Planning 3. Weather 4. On-Site Checklist & Risk Assessment Worksheet
16. 16 Flight
17. 17 Realized UAV Program Benefits Reduce Enterprise Risk Exposure •FAA compliant data collection •Internal/External Standards Response Speed •Actionable data fast •Barrier to drone use removed •Aerial data and cloud computing Safety •Remove personal from danger zone Cost Savings •Current cost vs. Drone cost •Internal/External •HW/SW •Drone team @ $1,500/day •Processing
18. 18 Questions? Mitch Droz Commercial Development Manager mitch.droz@pse.com