PLC based enterprise energy management solutions

Modern production facilities can potentially have very large electrical loads which translate to expensive production costs. It is recognized that there is value in understanding the primary cost contributions so that a facility can properly manage these resources and refine the operations. The Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) Technology offered by H2E provides for a customized adaptation of standard OEM power metering integrated with a standard OEM PLC platform. The uniqueness of the H2E technology is the ability, via the use of a PLC, to fully customize features specifically to the way a client manages and operates their facilities. The technology has the ability to integrate with any of the standard OEM meters and any of the common OEM PLC platforms. The EEM Technology enables the ability to customize facility specific features such as: · Breaker Status Time-stamping · Billing Information · Predictive Alarming (i.e Peak Demand) · Custom Calculations, Production Data, and Reporting · Enterprise and HMI Connectivity. The EEM Technology, with the critical PLC component, provides for a more "in depth" and detailed capability to capture power distribution data at the wave form level and to report. This paper will address methods to use PLC data monitoring, high speed 52A breaker monitoring, IRIG-B time synchronization, and utility integration to accurately predict real time billing and cost information, and to predict demand cycles within sufficient time for facility operators to react.