Automated Power Management Systems for Power Consumers With On-Site Generation

摘要

Colocated generation capabilities are finding great popularity among industrial, commercial, retail, and governmental power consumers. As the number of individual unit generators increases, so does the need for more powerful methods to monitor, control, and optimize the operation of the generation and load throughout their facilities. In the last decade, powerful microprocessor-controlled protection, automation, and communications devices have become available, which greatly simplify the task of automation and management of power systems. In addition to greatly enhanced features, these modern devices have made complete power management systems more reliable and economical than ever before. This paper identifies several best practices in the design of fully integrated power management systems using modern devices. A power management system recently commissioned at the Motor Oil Hellas (MOH) refinery in Greece will be used as an implementation example of these best practices.