Whether it is refinery-wide or unit specific, Comverge can help control and capture significant power savings without interruption to productivity or safety.

Refineries face the challenge of balancing energy savings and environmental responsibility for optimized productivity.

Comverge helps large-scale industrial complexes save energy, especially when coupled with the cogeneration of electrical power. Through the use of integrated, online metering, Comverge determines the best strategies for managing enterprise energy consumption.

Case in point
A Comverge customer, with a petroleum-coke gasification unit and 160-megawatt cogeneration power plant, wanted to maximize load shedding opportunities during periods of high energy demand. Comverge installed a real-time power monitoring system throughout the facility for data collection and precision energy management, while providing ongoing expert support services for demand response programs. Benefits of the solution included:

• Establishing, over the refinery’s LAN, real-time viewing of power flows at four interchange meters, the petroleum-coke gasification unit, and the five generators of the cogeneration plant
• Upgrading existing metering to meet the data collection requirements of the Independent System Operator (ISO)
• Enabling the collection and transfer of meter data relative to the operation of the onsite generation units in the required ISO timeframe
• Establishing a web interface to all metering data
• Reconciling metering data with electricity supplier invoices
• Providing a range of power system design, installation, and maintenance services on an ongoing basis