Solution
Corporate buildings use a lot of energy, making them a challenge to operate, requiring a strategic plan that allows for the rapid and integrated adoption of efficient and effective measures.
Our platform offers a three-step energy management solution that includes "energy consumption monitoring, operational energy savings and energy savings management", with intuitive management that provides users of all levels of knowledge and skills with relevant information on financial and operational management. Our interface is interactive, producing a logical organization of energy insights, which facilitates decision-making and operational tasks.
Modular architecture
Measurements of various types of meters (electricity, water, gas, steam, etc.) and various types of protocols (Modbus, Profibus, OPCUA, among others), facilitating the entire architecture. Communication can be serial, Ethernet, 4G, LoRa, ensuring flexibility of adaptation with data quality and security.
Monitoring energy consumption
Energy consumption monitoring has two important functions: 1. It can analyze energy saving potential through energy consumption mapping and classification, energy structure analysis, electricity price analysis and demand analysis, and provide the basis for technical and managerial energy saving of the project. 2. It can provide effective secondary evaluation and insights through technology considering operational economic performance analysis, i.e. energy efficiency gain and energy saving management, so as to facilitate the implementation of other targeted energy saving measures.
Load block and associated difficulties
It comprises the entire structure to which the operating cost of the power plant is directly related and is necessary. In corporate buildings, we can highlight: Air conditioning chillers, Compressors, Elevators, Lighting, among others. The usage profile of these load blocks (equipment) depends on the type and purpose of the users distributed in the building, as this equipment is centralized and makes resources available to all users, making it difficult for operators to manage these assets and correlate associated costs.
Advantages of integrated solution design
Integrated solution design provides quality measured data information, operational safety, transparency, and savings. Investing in integrated management can improve decision-making, mitigate risks, and establish sustainable energy policies that help the unit achieve performance goals.
Operational economics
Technical energy-saving operation is to transform and optimize each electron, recognize and perfect the potential of equipment with abnormal energy consumption, and formulate a technical transformation and action plan, so as to achieve the balance of energy price over technical operation, improve energy utilization efficiency and reduce comprehensive energy consumption, and achieve the purpose of "energy-saving management and green energy efficiency".
Block Mapping Plan
Develop a strategic and integrated plan for the entire consumption base, establish goals for the operation and price balance of energy, account for the resources used to generate carbon credits, relate and manage inputs in a practical and efficient way.
Energy Saving Management
Energy saving management is the planned and organized management of energy through the energy management system and management knowledge, so that the energy used can be managed economically, reasonably and effectively to achieve the pillars of economic, environmental and social benefits. Energy management is ultimately people-oriented and technology-supported, and through the organic combination of the two phases, the subjective initiative of operators and the portability of the energy management system are fully utilized to strategically achieve the effect of green energy efficiency.
Training
Recognizing and adapting management actions is a task that requires knowledge about the information base associated with the use of technology, producing energy and operational insights. Training on the use of the platform is the means of effectively ensuring the best results to be obtained, which is why it is one of the main requirements that our integrated solutions engineering seeks to establish with users..
Economy program
Some steps are fundamental to maintain and guarantee the best economy, we highlight the actions being:
(1) Monitoring, recording, managing energy consumption information and effective utilization of energy profile
By analyzing and processing energy data, the energy management system allows the operation and maintenance user to understand the status of our Energy Link software and energy consumption equipment in real time, and through data analysis, necessary adjustments of the energy usage profile and equipment performance can be made to continuously improve energy efficiency.
(2) Ensure reliable operationl
In the power plant, the energy consumption equipment is complex, containing a variety of energy consumption measurements and various energy usage situations, including other variables associated with the consumption base, such as water, temperature, gas, etc. The energy management system should classify and measure energy-consuming equipment such as water, electricity, gas and heating in the project. On our Energy Link platform, users can not only clearly view the energy consumption situation of each building, but also monitor the operation of energy-consuming equipment in real time to ensure that the equipment is in normal operation or can deal with the failure of energy-consuming equipment in time.
(3) Improve maintenance level and reduce costs
Our integrated solution projects take into account that the energy management system has relevance and practicality to improve the level of performance. For this reason, we provide training to users in building operations and maintenance, the use of Energy Link software and we offer 24/7 support at any time to consult our team of experts regarding the implemented project, obtaining quick and simple information, including customizable reports, which can help mitigate risk and improve work productivity and, to a certain extent, reduce the possibility of incorrect operation, adding value to the operation and maintenance team.
The benefits
Although we have mentioned some benefits of the project, we can highlight others to consider, such as:
Power management
Integrated solution project aims to help enterprises form a gradually efficient energy management system, facilitating better compression of energy consumption from "decentralized to centralized intuitive", so as to fully understand the flow and utilization efficiency of energy, reduce the labor intensity of operation and maintenance personnel, reduce costs avoided due to operation failures, and integrate operation and maintenance staff.
Optimize load
Our solution, through the Energy Link software, automatically collects information from the energy bills of one or more units, correlates the components of multiple tariffs from the local energy company, combined with the real operating needs, prepares specific costs by sector or input of production equipment, analyzes the production capacity on the energy base, promoting scenarios for reducing production costs or negotiating the price of energy, in a simple, integrated way, helping the financial team and administrative management.
Improve quality and reliability
Energy Link software analyzes the power quality level in accordance with the standards established by ANEEL, helping users to understand the status of energy-using equipment comprehensively, understand the abnormal and faulty operation situation, reduce losses caused by abnormality and develop actions to improve the reliability of energy use and equipment operation. Energy Link software monitors potential power quality problems, especially problems relevant to quality indexes, allows the preparation of power quality reports and compliances in accordance with the ABNT Prodist standard.
Optimizes assets
The integrated power plant solution ensures an analysis of the load characteristics of the energy-consuming equipment, so that the system can discover the potential capacity. By accounting for energy consumption, it is possible to choose a more economical way to associate energy consumption costs and establish better energy policies. For example: from the transformation to understand the "available resource capacity", "distributed in load block" and correlate specific cost for different operating patterns. At the same time, energy assets can be structured and optimized according to improved market technology and redundant or low-performance equipment can be replaced in a retrofit plan.
Transformation
Through Energy Link software, the system can perform data model analyses to assist in decision-making, helping to discover the availability of transformation capacity, optimizing the resource and performing cost accounting with energy saving effect scenarios, studying impacts on the need for load expansion. Based on monitoring data, Energy Link software helps to reduce the cost of production and maintenance of corporate buildings through the use of new energy-saving technologies.
Our Commitment
Expert Energy's integrated solution project package aims to promote energy efficiency and establish norms and standards for an effective, sustainable assessment, combined with the strategic system and energy consultancy through training, which promotes active saving of energy inputs within the company and raises awareness about energy saving among all staff in an integrated way through technology.