Concessionaires at Giants Stadium began adding additional electrical equipment, although the electricity cost formula for concessions and suites remained unchanged. It was apparent the stadium was losing out on reimbursable electricity usage. The stadium's power system had four major needs: * Submeter for accurate billing to concessionaires (40) and luxury suites (72) * Monitor quality of power and harmonics, to avoid disruptions; * Estimate future usage and loading * Centralize power management to monitor and report both real-time events and historical usage data.

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An ongoing $53 million capital improvement project dedicated exclusively to energy systems on was underway on the main campus in Albuquerque. As part of the project, the university was building a 12,000-ton chilled water production plant; replacing five boilers with cogeneration units; replacing all chillers; conducting an upgrade of the electrical system; and undertaking a host of demand-side energy management investments. The physical plant utilities engineer needed to justify the energy improvement project, Schuster needed to develop baseline energy measurements, providing the ability to evaluate and improve system performance through analytical and control systems

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Oracle Corporation, the software giant based in Redwood Shores, California, is the world's leading supplier of information management software. Its products operate in everything from personal digital assistants to global information networks. For Oracle's thousands of software developers, as well as customers that depend on non-stop 24-hour-a-day technical support, power interruptions can be extremely costly. "It can mean as much as 5 to 10 million dollars per day for us in lost sales and productivity," states Jeff Byron, Oracle's Corporate Utility Manager. "It also affects our customers who have mission-critical support needs."

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The Salt River Project (SRP) Hassayampa Switchyard is a 500kV transmission facility with 10 bays, handling power flowing to and from four different independent power producers and several other substations. SRP needed combined instrument/transformer loss compensation and power factor monitoring, plus aggregation and scaling of real-time data. A PowerLogic ION® system from Square D®/Schneider Electric delivered this functionality at an affordable price. Transformer and instrument losses are measured from the secondary side, saving installation costs without sacrificing accuracy. Substation bays operate as four loops, with PowerLogic ION8000 series meters configured as Modbus Master devices, each gathering real-time data from its loop to perform scaling and aggregation before passing values to a central RTU. The network fully integrates with the MV-90 billing system and provides a valuable backup function - if the RTU or communication links fail, the data can be retrieved manually from any meter. When generators go online and merchant sites produce their own power, the breakers close and the meters go offline. Information is shared among authorized users, and advanced security features ensure that confidential data is going only to the right place, and nowhere else.

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Oncor, the regulated energy delivery business within Dallas-based TXU Corporation, is the first company in the United States to rely on high speed Ethernet to transmit energy production data from merchant power plants to the Independent System Operator (ISO). The information is used for transaction settlement and billing, and Ethernet provides a more cost effective, reliable, and secure solution than intermittent modem links.

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