Consumers Power Inc. - USA

Company Profile

Consumers Power serves electricity to 61 counties in the southern peninsula of Michigan.

Situation

Consumers Power required a solution for calculating On-Line Heat Rate at their twelve coal fired generating units at five power plants.

Solution

Measuresoft proposed and installed a SCADA solution based on its ScadaPro product running on the Microsoft Windows platform. The system was configured to acquire data from a distributed I/O network to monitor temperature, pressure, flow and the overall performance (output) and effectiveness of each plant. Real-time steam tables were used to calculate Heat Rate Efficiency Ratio and data is pumped into a spreadsheet to perform real-time analysis. All data is logged for historic analysis.

Benefits

• Leveraging the Microsoft platform provides a solution that is accessible throughout the corporate network.
• Operator familiarity with the Windows user interface reduces training costs.