Energy Monitoring System

Abstract

In new era, effective utilization of electrical energy is a major task for the power engineers. Energy Monitoring Systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, Distributed Controlled System (DCS) etc may serve the purpose of monitoring the electrical energy generated and its availability for use to the consumers. Many power engineers proposed that, if 1 watt of energy saved at the consumer end is equal to 2 watts of energy available at the generation side. Energy monitoring typically involves- data collection and review, plant surveys and system measurements, observation and review of operating practices, data analysis. This research helps to study the run-time analysis of both renewable and non-renewable sources of electrical energy with the help of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) which controls the load in industry. The overall automation of the industry is monitored by SCADA software after interfacing with the PLC.