About 20% of electricity use in California is treating, pumping, and distribution of water. CE-CERT has demonstrated and deployed an energy management and data acquisition and supervisory control strategies that reduce peak loads of electricity costs in the delivery and treatment of water at each of the three water district locations. The three developments utilize existing on-site SCADA architecture and implement the Energy Management System (EMS) within the existing architecture.
This demonstration project highlights a pathway for water agencies in California to reduce their peak energy consumption substantially with no decrement in service or reliability. The project also identifies "real world" implementation issues that have not emerged in previous proof-of-concept research. Contact: Sadrul Ula, Sadrul.ula@ucr.edu
Integration of software and hardware at water delivery pumping, storage, or treatment facilities that enable the integrations and transmission of data from energy meters directly or indirectly into Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions (SCADA).
This demonstration project highlights a pathway for water agencies in California to reduce their peak energy consumption substantially with no decrement in service or reliability. The project also identifies "real world" implementation issues that have no emerged in previous proof-of-concept research.
Combined with historical energy use integrated with real time SCADA control displays, operators can manage systems in real time to monitor and control peak demand. Real time energy usage monitoring provides both instantaneous and 15 minute average relative to Time of Use (TOU) rate schedules, and alarm notifications optimized to provide operators with real time energy demand and the current existing peak load that has been recorded to date.
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Energy Management Systems (EMS)
We perform customized development and validation services.
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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
We perform customized development and validation services.
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Real-Time Monitoring System Software and Sensors
We perform development, testing, and validation services.