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ePower
What is ePower?
ePower is Sega's term for our monitoring, tracking, and forecasting
solutions for power generation. It gives personnel at all
levels the ability to see real-time power plant performance data,
revenue generation data, and cost data. From easy to read
graphics, data is made available and calculations are performed for
multiple plants and in multiple locations, simultaneously.
ePower provides real-time economic information to evaluate
generation options to maximize your rate-of-return on investment.
Better Decisions
In volatile energy selling and fuel purchasing markets, you need the
ability to react quickly and adjust your generation facilities'
inputs and outputs according to the prevailing economic
environment. We provide you with the information tool that
shows you exactly how your plants are performing now, at this
instant, from anywhere in the world.
Perhaps even more valuable, with price and fuel projections,
operations and maintenance costs, and current equipment performance
data, performance forecasting will give you the information sorely
needed to make the right short-term generation decisions.
Platform
The ePower system is an off-the-shelf, low cost hardware and
software solution that captures real-time data directly from any
existing power plant control system. By coupling your plant
data with economic factors, you'll have on-demand financial performance.
All this can be contained in one standard PC per plant or
centralized in servers if preferred. This
information system can then securely communicate with remote PC's
via WAN's or the Internet. This allows you to consolidate and
standardize real-time plant information from multiple generation
sites.
Getting Started
To start, we'll assess your plant's data acquisition and control
systems and setup the requested performance monitoring calculations,
displays, and reports. Next, we'll establish a data link to
the plant's existing equipment. Finally, to access the system
you'll simply need intranet or internet access.
Maintenance Requirements
Because we use all off-the-shelf hardware and software, maintenance,
revisions, upgrades, and enhancements can be all self
supported. This is not a proprietary system. What we
provide with this solution is the technical know-how and experience
to develop and implement, right the first time, power plant
information systems that give the right people essential information
on demand.
Control System Enhancement
Using ePower, you can easily retrieve historical plant performance
data. Also, individual equipment and plant systems performance
can be monitored real-time, giving operators the ability to adjust
operations from true performance indicators that traditional control
systems fail to provide. The PC located at the plant can be
used for any additional data gathering, graphics displays, or even
operating system supervision. Access level and security is
unlimited and entirely discretionary.
Business Integration
Because we use standard software tools for the data exchange between
application software such as spreadsheets, word processors, and
databases, the possibilities for integration into other business
systems are virtually unlimited.
Training
We offer all the training you'll need to make the most of your
system. We always focus on your success.
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Power Magazine Artilcle
ePower? is featured in the "IT in the Plant" section of the
Sept/Oct 2001 edition of PowerŪ Magazine page 79, (see the ePower? ad on page 88).
Click
here to see a copy of the article
Conference Presentation
ePower? was presented at the 49th Annual Energy IT Expo and Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
For more information, contact Tor Anderson
at 913-681-2881.
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