CASE STUDY
Challenge
In collaboration with the power company, a university sought to deploy a 1.4-megawatt microgrid as both a power source and a living laboratory to better understand the resiliency, sustainability and cost of microgrids among the landscape of emerging energy solutions. In order to help monitor and manage the microgrid in both its day-to-day operations and as a data source for researchers and students, the university needed a platform to deliver on the project's unique use cases.
Solution
Having been an entroCIM power user for several years by the time the microgrid was announced, university stakeholders knew the platform could support their goals.
Data from complex technologies are visualized simply within entroCIM for day-to-day management of the microgrid’s uninterrupted power, while engineers and researchers maintain constant access to underlying data required to better understand the systems that help the microgrid serve the university and its neighbors.
Summary
Customer
University
Building Type
Microgrid, Power Generation, 1.4 megawatt
Location
Southeastern US
Point Count
150,000
Deployment Architecture
Cloud Hosted
entroCIM’s powerful reporting capabilities make it easy for stakeholders to leverage years of historical data to understand the microgrid concept’s capabilities for more regional expansion. Regular subject matter expert support ensures that stakeholders from the university and power company see use cases enabled to perform the controlled experiments required to test and advance the technologies in place.
Project Stakeholders
Developers, engineers, department heads, facility managers, research staff and students.
Integrated Systems
- Generators
- Energy storage system
- Load bank
- Fuel cell
- Switchgear
- Breakers
Scope
- New construction consulting
- Use-case analysis
- Researcher and student data access
- Subject matter expert support
- entroCIM Implementation
- API integrations
- Dashboarding
- Graphics
- Analytics
- Reporting
