Accenture and OGE Energy Corp. Announce Success of Smart Grid Program with Automated Equipment to Reduce Network Distribution Demand

OKLAHOMA CITY–(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.

Contacts

Accenture
Guy Cantwell, +1 281 900 9089
[email protected]
or
Accenture
Matt
Corser, +44 755 784 9009
[email protected]
or
OG&E
Kathleen
O’Shea, +1 405 553 3616
[email protected]