Measuresoft Case Study: Consumers Power Inc

Consumers Power - 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, a Microsoft Certified Partner, proposed and installed a SCADA solution based on its ScadaPro product running on the Microsoft Windows 2000 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.