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- Enabling Distributed Generation and Demand Response With Enterprise Energy Management Systems
- An escalating demand for power has created two challenges for the energy industry: today, the problem is lack of generation; five years from now, it will be bottlenecks in the transmission and distribution infrastructure. Although demand response can solve the short-term problem, only distributed generation can solve both. Demand response...
- White papers 2001-07-30
- University of Chicago Saves Money & Justifies Funding With Enterprise Energy Management
- The University of Chicago has many diverse facilities on campus, and because energy usage levels vary greatly between departments, the university's Building Automation Systems BAS group had to find a way of accurately tracking usage and allocating costs to individual departments. After careful study, the BAS team chose an ION...
- Case studies
- Metering System Monitors Duke University's Electrical Services
- As assistant director of the Electrical Services Unit of Duke's Facilities Management Department, Aurel Selezeanu knows that rapid response is critical to avert costly and possibly life threatening consequences of a major electrical problem. A variety of built-in connectivity options saves on cabling and installation, and allows integration with legacy...
- Case studies
- University of Mississippi Wins Big With On-Site Generation & Load Curtailment
- To guarantee reliable power when the utility curtailed its supply as per a load curtailment agreement, the University of Mississippi built an on-site 20 MW generation facility, enough to power the entire campus for 3 or 4 days without refueling. Power Measurement integrated an EEM system using ION 7600 meters...
- Case studies
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory Controls Quality and Costs
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL in California leads the world in developing innovative, high quality, cost-efficient systems for space exploration. Most of JPL's 144 buildings contain very sensitive devices that demand high power quality. Power disturbances can have severe consequences, such as instrument damage, assembly disruptions, or lost research data. JPL...
- Case studies
- RETX Creates a Hub for Real-Time Energy Transactions
- Today's utilities have a critical need for real-time energy information, especially in a true market economy where both energy suppliers and consumers can influence the amount and price of power. RETX focused on price response and emergency response, where end users can adjust usage based on the price of electricity,...
- Case studies
- Round-the-Clock Service for Non-Stop Business Operations
- The LexisNexis Data Center in Ohio was operating 24 hours a day to supply its customers with legal, corporate, government and academic information. The only exception to this "round-the-clock" service was an eight-hour maintenance window on Sunday mornings, but that too had to be eliminated because it was affecting the...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- California Leads Conservation Efforts With Enterprise Energy Management
- Conserving energy while managing numerous large buildings is a huge challenge. Voluntary manual efforts shutting off unused equipment such as lights, computers, and coffee makers tend to wane over time, so automation is key. Power Measurement installed web-ready ION Enterprise software and ION intelligent metering and control devices to collect,...
- Case studies
- North American Automaker Saves Energy Far and Wide
- The chief engineer at a major automaker running several plants realized that carefully managing energy at each one could save thousands, or millions, of dollars. He hatched an ambitious plan: identify and track all energy requirements, then optimize power quality and efficiency across more than 30 facilities, and give users...
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- Petrochemical Company Reaps Huge Profit From Accurate Sub-billing
- A Fortune 500 company that runs a major chemical processing operation in Texas identified a problem area in its utility billing. Like many large refineries, they sell off different processes to other companies and accurate bill for power they use is quite a challenge. To remove billing guesswork, Power Measurement...
- Case studies
- Reducing Risk With Enterprise Energy Management: Observations After the Biggest Blackout in US History
- Major blackouts like the one in North America on August 14 illustrate dependency on electricity to support a stable, diverse, and growing economy. This paper highlights the need for energy consumers and suppliers to manage risk before major disruptions happen. They must be prepared to diagnose power problems and control...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- Energy Management #101: Controlling Costs Campus-Wide
- By their very nature, large educational institutions have a lot to gain from managing their energy wisely. Characterized by a sprawling campus, multiple buildings, thousands of residents, and a diverse range of power requirements, a typical university campus is like any progressive community - a large energy consumer. Fortunately, today's...
- Case studies
- Keeping Pace in a Fast-Changing Market
- In this paper, forward-looking electric power suppliers of all types cooperative, investor owned and municipal utilities, are responding to this market change by investing in technologies that allow monitoring and controlling their processes with greater precision, speed, and economy. Bay City Electric Light & Power Bay City, Alpena Power Company...
- White papers 2003-11-14
- Managing Energy Transactions
- This paper discusses the ION power system in improving the power sector of Jordon. The government of Jordan recently began the challenge monitoring energy transactions and billing between the newly independent power generation, transmission and distribution companies. As a state-owned utility, NEPCO remains at the centre of Jordan's restructured energy...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Demystifying Energy Management: 10 Ideas to Cut Usage & Costs
- This paper focuses on the energy management aspect of the power sector and gives viable suggestions for effectively utilization and cutting the costs. Business need to take active charge of their energy management and procurement in the face of rising energy prices. To do this requires full understanding of their...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Satellite Solutions
- Rio Grande Electric Cooperative RGEC in Brackettville, TX, provides electric service to over 10,000 meters across Texas and New Mexico. When comes to monitor the status of the entire distribution network, while reducing the amount of time technicians must spend on the road, the question was how could they communicate...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Three Dimensions of Energy Opportunities That Can Boost Profits and Asset Value
- Commercial property owners and management firms are seeking new ways to maximize profits and property valuation. Energy use is often the largest single line item on an expense statement. As such the paper represents a range of opportunities for minimizing operating expenses, increasing net operating income, improving tenant satisfaction and...
- White papers 2004-11-08
- Data Quality Issues and Solutions for Enterprise Energy Management Applications
- Enterprise energy management ("EEM") systems are delivering the information and control capabilities businesses need to effectively lower energy costs and increase productivity by avoiding power-related disruptions. This paper describes how dedicated data quality tools now available for EEM applications can be used to help ensure that the intelligence on which...
- White papers 2004-11-09
- Syracuse University Raises the Bar on Advanced Energy Management
- Part of Syracuse University's commitment to energy conservation is an electrical distribution system upgrade incorporating the latest enterprise energy management EEM technology from Power Measurement. Designed to reduce costs, minimize waste, and facilitate planning, the Internet-based EEM system uses a campus-wide network of intelligent ION meters and energy management software...
- Case studies
- Sustaining the University of British Columbia's Critical Energy Needs
- The University of British Columbia UBC has 35,000 students, 14,000 employees, and 10,000 on-campus residents all depending on reliable electricity, heat, water, gas, and sanitary services. Realizing a need for automated energy management, improved problem response, and increased reliability; UBC Utilities chose a monitoring solution from Power Measurement. The system...
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