Post by barikulislam051 on Jun 5, 2024 23:46:37 GMT -6
The Building Owners and Managers Association in Chicago BOMA is spearheading a smart meter pilot program, and up to BOMAChicago member buildings in downtown Chicago will be able to participate when the pilot begins later in this year.
Ron Tabaczynski, BOMAChicago director of government affairs said the member organization is initiating the smart meter project so that buildings can aggregate their energy information to be able to participate in some sophisticated demand response programs through the PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization.
“Our buildings have realized the value of real-time energy management. Now, we’re looking to aggregate data and allow them to participate in demand response that they would not be able to participate in as individual buildings through PJM,” said Tabaczynski. He said some of PJM’s demand response programs require very high energy loads for participation.
To implement the program, advanced meters will be installed in all partic turkey phone number ipating buildings to record electricity usage in one-second intervals. Commonwealth Edison will install the meters and related infrastructure. All the smart meters will be connected to local gateway routers, and those will be connected to network servers.
The BOMA Chicago Energy Center, an affiliate of BOMAChicago, signed an agreement with Automated Logic Corporation ALC for the company to serve as technology partner on the project. ALC technicians will install local servers that will feed each building’s usage data to a central server at the Energy Center’s network operations center.
The cost of equipping buildings with the new technology and tracking their energy consumption is estimated at about ,, according to Chicago Business via SmartMeters. Tabaczynski couldn’t confirm the cost, but he did say it would be split between BOMAChicago and the participating buildings. BOMA has not yet named the participating buildings.
The UK water company saved about £ million . million last year on its power bills by generating percent of its annual energy requirement from sewage.
THP plants — essentially industrial-scale pressure cookers — condition the leftover solids from wastewater treatment by heating it up to around degrees Celsius.
The pre-conditioned sludge then goes into existing anaerobic digesters pictured that break it down, producing biomethane gas that is then burned to create heat and generate renewable electricity.
Sewage sludge that has gone through the THP process before being anaerobically digested yields significantly more biogas with which to generate electricity to help run Thames Water’s treatment works. By using anaerobic digestion alone, about percent of the organic material in sludge turns into biogas. Thermal hydrolysis increases this to between and percent, says Lawrence Gosden, Thames Water’s director of capital delivery.
By installing THP at six of its main UK sewage works, along with other renewable energy activities including solar power, Thames hopes to meet its goal of generating percent of.
Ron Tabaczynski, BOMAChicago director of government affairs said the member organization is initiating the smart meter project so that buildings can aggregate their energy information to be able to participate in some sophisticated demand response programs through the PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization.
“Our buildings have realized the value of real-time energy management. Now, we’re looking to aggregate data and allow them to participate in demand response that they would not be able to participate in as individual buildings through PJM,” said Tabaczynski. He said some of PJM’s demand response programs require very high energy loads for participation.
To implement the program, advanced meters will be installed in all partic turkey phone number ipating buildings to record electricity usage in one-second intervals. Commonwealth Edison will install the meters and related infrastructure. All the smart meters will be connected to local gateway routers, and those will be connected to network servers.
The BOMA Chicago Energy Center, an affiliate of BOMAChicago, signed an agreement with Automated Logic Corporation ALC for the company to serve as technology partner on the project. ALC technicians will install local servers that will feed each building’s usage data to a central server at the Energy Center’s network operations center.
The cost of equipping buildings with the new technology and tracking their energy consumption is estimated at about ,, according to Chicago Business via SmartMeters. Tabaczynski couldn’t confirm the cost, but he did say it would be split between BOMAChicago and the participating buildings. BOMA has not yet named the participating buildings.
The UK water company saved about £ million . million last year on its power bills by generating percent of its annual energy requirement from sewage.
THP plants — essentially industrial-scale pressure cookers — condition the leftover solids from wastewater treatment by heating it up to around degrees Celsius.
The pre-conditioned sludge then goes into existing anaerobic digesters pictured that break it down, producing biomethane gas that is then burned to create heat and generate renewable electricity.
Sewage sludge that has gone through the THP process before being anaerobically digested yields significantly more biogas with which to generate electricity to help run Thames Water’s treatment works. By using anaerobic digestion alone, about percent of the organic material in sludge turns into biogas. Thermal hydrolysis increases this to between and percent, says Lawrence Gosden, Thames Water’s director of capital delivery.
By installing THP at six of its main UK sewage works, along with other renewable energy activities including solar power, Thames hopes to meet its goal of generating percent of.