As the largest community-owned utility in Florida and the eighth largest in the United States, JEA serves 360,000 customers in Jacksonville and parts of three adjacent counties. JEA has net generating capability of over 2,300 MW and owns and operates a combination of generation, transmission and distribution assets. Water and sewer systems are also part of its utility service offerings.
As a part of efforts to maximize reliability across this extensive service area, JEA installed an automated energy analysis system. The system helps engineering personnel isolate and correct power quality issues and equipment risks throughout their network.
Data Center Power Monitoring System Simplifies Generator Testing
A large data center was concerned about the reliability of their emergency diesel generator to provide power for their critical loads in the event they lost utility power. Typically, emergency generators are periodically tested to ensure that they are operationally sound and can ?pick up the load.? Because the diesel generator tests were performed on a weekly basis through an automated system, the data center personnel wanted to document that the tests were being performed as had been configured.
U.S. Air Force Base Addresses Unique Needs with Advanced Power Management
The power management needs of Edwards Air Force Base are not ordinary. Located in the Mojave Desert, the massive campus covers 301,000 acres, or roughly 470 square miles
Edwards receives high voltage power of 115kV from the utility and distributes it to its buildings and tenants, such as NASA. In 2003, a PowerLogic® power monitoring system from Schneider Electric was installed to help monitor and manage the high voltage electrical distribution system and usage within its facilities. The PowerLogic® system, with System Manager™ software (SMS), receives, records and analyzes data provided by more than 100 Square D® brand power meters and circuit monitors throughout the base.
Facility Engineer Finds Novel Use, Extra Value from Power Management System
When Mike Krone considered a Square D® PowerLogic® power management system, he did so based on more beneficial features and fewer hidden costs. Once the system was installed he discovered unexpected added value that has already saved the University of Maryland, Baltimore $100,000 and will likely save much more.
St. John's - Critical Power System Protects Hospital's Ability to Provide Care
In the healthcare industry, critical power is a matter of life or death. To guarantee constant power, a hospital’s critical power supply and all associated components must function properly, automatically.
St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill., is no different. St. John’s is a 730-bed hospital with more than 1.7 million square feet of facility space, and functions as a regional referral medical center for cities throughout central and southern Illinois.
Metering Project Drives Energy Efficiency for Air Force Base Medical Services
When it comes to the United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS), the mission always comes first. But that can be a challenge, particularly when the AFMS offers medical service to more than 2.63 million eligible beneficiaries, including active duty personnel, family members and retirees, at 62 campuses nationwide, including dozens of hospitals, medical centers and clinics.
Information Saves $100K Annually Plus $1 Million Cost Avoidance
When a metal manufacturing plant in the northeast was forced to consider a substation upgrade totaling nearly $1 million, information from their PowerLogic system convinced the company to simply switch loads to three other existing substations with sufficient capacity, turning a major capital expense into a very minor project.
Schneider Electric’s Critical Power Competency Center moved beyond its status as sole equipment provider to become an engineering partner for RagingWire. This gave RagingWire access and insight into all the various engineering and design resources within Schneider Electric as a whole and provided RagingWire with a unique competitive advantage, more energy and space efficient operations with increased reliability without adding more equipment and better power monitoring, .
Square D companies such as Juno Lighting Group and TAC, LLC, initiate energy optimization for it’s own plants and facilities, with an ambitious goal of reducing energy consumption per employee by 10 percent from 2004 to 2008.
Schneider Electric and its Square D® engineering services customized power monitoring solution, including Square D® PowerLogic® System Manager™ software, which runs from an application server that provides the visualization of the electrical system. Connected to the PowerLogic® software are two Square D® PowerLogic® CM4000 and six CM4250 circuit monitors at eight different transformer and distribution centers on the property.
Petroleum Refinery Saves Millions with Returns in Less Than One Year
Second only to crude oil, electrical power is typically one of the highest production costs and key elements in the refining business. In the extremely competitive petrochemical industry, products are produced 24 hours/day - 7 days/week and pumped directly into the market without an inventory buffer. Unscheduled interruptions or disturbances which affect process equipment can lead to millions of dollars in lost production and electrical equipment if not managed properly. Therefore, the continuous supply of high quality power is essential to survival in the refining industry. This paper describes one west coast Refinery's success in proactively managing 110MW of power consumption with their PowerLogic power monitoring and control system that paid for itself in less than one year after it was fully commissioned.
