1) What are the benefits of Power Management?
In simple words, power management is designed to enhance electrical availability and reliability. Power reliability, quality and management are key in critical power systems and buildings. Therefore, the power management systems help ensure efficiency and safety, as well as the compliant operation of your power distribution systems.
2) Why choose Schneider Electric for power management solution?
Schneider Electric offers technically advanced and efficient power management solutions supported by retrofit solutions, software and services. As a part of our retrofit solutions, we offer power digitalisation which plays a fundamental role in efficient facility operations and active energy management. Such retrofitting electrical systems with the use of power management software and smart devices improves energy efficiency and reduces risk, making it a great investment.
In addition, devices like PowerTag wireless energy sensors measure energy consumption and make them available through communication protocols, and the energy and power management software is designed to interrogate such devices throughout the local area network and collect power and energy information.
3) Why is Power Management required?
Power management is required because the electrical systems are becoming more complex; in fact, the processes and loads have increased, which are much more power sensitive. On the other hand, there are several types of loads, distributed power sources and types of facilities that are also getting larger or increasing in criticality and power density. Therefore, all these complexities and criticalities emphasise the need for comprehensive monitoring, helping you stay on top of the real-time data across your power distribution system. Moreover, power management systems help prevent electrical shocks, hazardous fires and improve uptime by avoiding unplanned outages and more.
What is power management?
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Reduce energy spend and accomplish energy sustainability goals:
• Understand how energy is consumed throughout the facility and proactively detect abnormal energy usage.
• Use energy normalisation tools to monitor energy in the context of production for energy intensity KPI tracking.
• Automatically generate energy performance, carbon reduction, and regulatory compliance reports. -
Maximise power availability and electrical system performance:
• Install power metres to get real-time visibility of power flowing through the facility from mains to final distribution.
• Use relays and breakers to isolate faults, shed non-critical loads and automatically transfer to alternate power sources.
• Track electrical capacity in all circuits to balance circuits, avoid overloads and ensure sufficient backup power availability. -
Minimise the impact of power disturbances and prevent equipment malfunction and damage:
• Power Quality Instruments (PQI) for accurate and reliable power quality monitoring and disturbance capture.
• Specialised diagnostic tools including disturbance direction detection, load loss detection, and incident timeline analysis.
• Power quality correction equipment including active harmonic filters and dynamic voltage restorers. -
Avoid downtime, reduce maintenance costs and extend the life of your equipment:
• Install sensors and smart devices with onboard diagnostics to enable predictive and condition-based maintenance.
• Proactively send alerts if a setting changes, a hot spot develops, or equipment components are wearing out.
• Partner with Digital Service Providers for expert decision support and remote monitoring services. -
Save money by reducing energy spend:
• Monitor facility energy use with revenue grade monitoring at service entrances
• Compare utility bills with internally generated “shadow bills” and check for billing mistakes
• Install capacitor banks to improve power factor and lower electricity bills and avoid paying surcharges
Power digitalisation plays a foundational role in active energy management and efficient facility operations. Retrofitting electrical systems with smart devices and using power management software to improve energy efficiency and reduce risk is a great investment with a typical payback of less than two years.
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