Any meaningful Sustainability Programme must encompass the measurement, reporting, understanding and continuous improvement in the efficiency of all power and energy related parameters across the entire Estate.
Power Quality should be treated with equal importance, as related issues can have significant and wide-ranging impacts on various aspects of industrial operations, equipment performance, and overall productivity. These impacts can lead to increased costs, reduced efficiency, equipment damage, and disruptions in production processes.
MPL has developed a fully scalable estate wide metering solution applicable across the entire Electrical Power Monitoring System (EPMS), from building point of entry through to an individual payload.
This 4-tier approach simplifies the understanding and specifying of the most appropriate metering solution across each EPMS tier, avoiding costly over specification whilst ensuring all relevant and necessary monitoring data is captured to empower the client to make informed decisions.
The accuracy of reported data is paramount, as it directly influences the ability to drive operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and ensure compliance with legislative requirements. Given its critical importance, there can be no compromise in the precision of measurements.
MPL define 5 Key Steps in the implementation of an effective Metering & Monitoring solution:
Identify Utilities to be monitored (electricity, gas, water, solar)
Power Quality of incoming feeds
Identify Sub Metering Requirements across Distribution Boards, Sub Distribution, RPP’s, Bus Bar, Panel Boards and MID
Granular monitoring of payloads
Visualisation and reporting, scalable beyond kWh and CO2
Metering Strategy
Tier 1:
Utility Monitoring focuses on power quality analysers and the metering on the main incoming feed/point of common coupling. These power quality meters perform as a multifunction network analyser, actively assisting the electrical system to run continuously and at optimised rates.
With this system, clients can improve overall efficiency of the facility, reduce production losses, optimise running costs whilst reducing maintenance costs. An analyser will measure all electrical parameters and analyse the quality of energy.
Assess Existing Utility Meters (electricity, gas and water), identifying communication protocols (i.e. pulse output), location,and accessibility.
Solar Monitoring to maximise operational efficiencies and provide early detection of any failures. To achieve this, MPL monitor the AC power at the inverter, DC voltage and current at the combiner or recombiner boxes as well as Power Quality metering of electricity loads consumed by the estate and potentially fed back to the grid.
Tiers 2 and 3:
Sub Metering utilising PMD metering across plant equipment and sub distribution. Monitoring of energy data, electrical parameters, basic power quality (Total Harmonic Distortion THD) and MID.
Tier 4:
Monitoring of Payloads utilising PMD metering. Monitoring of energy data (kWh), electrical parameters, basic power quality (Total Harmonic Distortion THD) and MID.
Individual Circuit Monitoring
MPL offers a scalable and modular approach to address multi circuit power and energy management for both AC and DC applications (AC to 6000A, DC to 5000A). This truly market neutral solution is suitable for single and three phase circuits, delivering centralised reporting of Volts, Amps, kVA, kW, kWh and PF and Power Quality of the incoming feeds.
Key features include:
Scalable, pre-configured ‘ready to run’ enclosures to reduce on-site installation costs, space, and time. The enclosures can be deployed in a master/slave arrangement to facilitate the monitoring of multiple panels across or between floors
Industry leading accuracy – Class 0.5 for global measurement chain (10-120% of load) – IEC 61557-12 refers
Non-invasive current sensor technology utilising ‘plug and play’ connectivity into multiple current measurement modules to simplify site installations
EN50160 certified voltage module per feed for PQ of incoming feeds
Centralised data collection via the N-GEN Gateway datalogger (single IP address)
Choice of SNMP, MQTT, SIM, LAN, or Wi-Fi outputs
Instantaneous alerting and alarming against user defined thresholds for any monitored parameter.
For further information, please contact us at marketing@mpltechnologygroup.com
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