Energy Management Systems

PMCS
Unlock the Full Potential of your PMCS – Fully Integrated Energy
Electrical Network Management Systems
For utilities, building owners, plant managers, plant engineers and Let GE Multilin help you shed some light on the unknowns of your
maintenance departments, it has become an incredible challenge to system by providing a full, clear picture of your facility, and providing
understand all aspects of increasingly complex facilities having an easy to use tools for implementing effective solutions.
array of equipment and processes. Hard lessons on the importance PMCS is a fully integrated Energy Management System that will reduce
of energy management are being learned across all business sectors your cost of energy by optimizing the methods used to control both
in the form of: processes and equipment in order to utilize energy more economically
and efficiently.
• Energy costs escalating out of control
• Revenue robbing process downtime PMCS delivers a complete solution:
• Premature equipment failure
• Site Evaluation and Consultation
• Expensive system capacity upgrades
• Overall Project Management
• Complete Device Integration
A large problem in facilities is the relative unknown about the use of
• Communications Setup & Testing
energy and the power quality of the electrical network. The primary
source of power and energy information comes from the few lines • Site Specific Graphical Interfaces
of data on the monthly power bill. Using only this, facility managers • Hands On Training
are being asked to develop strategies for energy savings, understand
capacity profiles, and correct systems inefficiencies. Making decisions
PMCS (Power Management Control Systems) is a customized solution
based on the ‘final score’ information of a power bill is a game plan
that can range from simple remote monitoring to a completely
for disappointment involving guesswork in analyzing problems, and
engineered automated control system. With PMCS you gain real-time
implementation of trial & error solutions.
access to GE Multilin Intelligent Electrical Devices (IEDs), as well as to
A clearer picture of exactly what is happening in a facility is a
many other installed third party devices and systems. Integrated with
necessity. Data on not only the real-time status of a system, but also
HMI client software, PMCS delivers the graphical representations of
historical trending is essential, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and minute-
substation equipment status, energy trends, remote control of devices,
by-minute. For facility managers, the costly reality has been that what
and automated responses to system conditions.
they don’t know is hurting them. PMCS from GE Multilin is the tool to
shift the thinking to “What you do know, can help you”

Range of PMCS
Simple Energy Full Featured Energy
Monitoring Basic Advanced Management System

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Power Cost Control &

Monitoring Quality Allocation Automation
BENEFITS
PMCS provides the tools to control energy costs, minimize downtime
Basic Advanced
and outages, and optimize operations to increase productivity.

• Less downtime – Identify and correct problems before they PMCS delivers these benefits by implementing combinations of
lead to loss of power and/or costly damage to loads such as the four functional modules creating the most effective energy
production equipment and computers. management system. The functional modules are Monitoring,
Power Quality, Cost Allocation, and Control & Automation.
• Reduced energy costs – Find ways to conserve power, correct
billing errors, and reduce peak usage surcharges
• Improved predictive maintenance – Identify simple maintenance
tasks so you can make scheduled corrections before they
become problems.
• Faster corrective maintenance – Quickly pinpoint the root cause
of problems using tools such as time-tagged alarms, sequence of
events logs, and triggered waveform capture.
• Increased safety – Provide a centralized source of information,
reducing the need for physical contact with equipment and
reduce shop-floor or substation presence.
• Higher productivity – Free up maintenance and repair personnel
to perform other needed duties.
• Improved power quality – Identify sources of “dirty” power,
otherwise invisible, and take corrective action to save wear, and
possible damage to critical production equipment and other
loads.

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Monitoring
Monitoring is the most basic functional module of
the PMCS system. It is also the base onto which
all other functions are typically added. Energy
monitoring is the window to your electrical
system, allowing you to reduce maintenance
and repair costs by identifying where specific
work is required.
The Monitoring Module remotely captures voltage, current, power,
energy, and demand data from intelligent electrical devices
throughout a facility. Log data from meters, relays, and breaker trip
units to monitor the status of main power feeders, branch circuits,
and electrical equipment. Typical monitored values include:
• RMS current • KVA and KVAh
• Current demand • KVAR and KVARh
• Peak current • Power Factor
• RMS voltage • Frequency
• KW and KWh • Event Records
• Peak KW demand
With PMCS Monitoring, your computer screen becomes your facility’s
energy interface. View the entire site via a birds-eye graphical
diagram, then click to customized dynamic one-line schematics and
individual device icons for an instant overview of installed devices.
Track real-time energy consumption with basic trending, react to
highlighted device alarms from a central location, and acknowledge
these alarms remotely.
Monitoring module screens
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Power Quality
The Power Quality functional module allows
one to measure and evaluate the overall
power quality throughout a facility. Remotely
capture disturbances on the electrical
network such as total harmonic distortion,
individual harmonic distortion, and sub-cycle
transients. This previously unknown information allows for quick
identification of dirty power sources and tracking of the resulting
negative effects on other equipment. By employing mitigation
techniques, the overall lifespan of electrical assets is increased and
overall process downtime is reduced.
Trending of power quality events via data logs and quantified
event analysis, allow for continuous power analysis. Highlight the
frequency, duration, and severity of problems. Event triggered
waveform recording, sag and swell analysis, and out-of-limit logs
provide an accurate system-wide depiction of power disturbances.
Events in this log are displayed in a prioritized list and automatically
written to a database file. Essential where there is a high mix of non-
linear loads and expensive equipment, PMCS Power Quality brings
visibility to previously hidden network events, allowing preventative
action before costly process shutdown.
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Cost Allocation
The PMCS Cost Allocation module is a useful
tool for managing your energy usage and
identifying areas for cost savings. You can
create automatic power usage reports and
supply individual energy bills to different
parts of your facility by aggregating energy
data. Bills can be generated per device, per department, per floor, or
per user defined cost center. These bills are made to match the same
criteria found in your bills from the utility, including total energy and
peak demand power use based on time of use schedules, seasonal
schedules, and regionally specific rate structures. PMCS is your tool
to bring accountability to power users by allocating cost burden
based on usage. By doing so, the scope and effectiveness of energy
management strategies increases because efforts are focused and
results are measurable.
Cost Allocation also provides an easy to use utility configurator,
which helps in understanding the costs that appear on the utility bill.
From here, energy management strategies can be developed and
tested scenarios to see the impact of load shedding, peak demand
shaving, shifting rate schedules, or even changing utility suppliers.
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Control & Automation
Control & Automation takes PMCS to its highest level
by executing energy management solutions with
automated strategies. PMCS delivers system control
by interfacing directly with the on-site generators,
utility feeds, and the power distribution network.
• Implement fast load shedding strategies by
isolating local system anomalies to prevent catastrophic system failure
and plant shutdown.
• Reduce energy charges with automated shedding of non-critical loads
during peak rate times.
• Reduce peak demand surcharges through automated staging of
equipment during process start-up.
The Control & Automation module allows the user to create and implement
power feed transfer plans. Reduce the chaotic effects of utility power
outages by employing automatic transfer schemes that shed non-critical
loads, switch to stable power feeds, and control start-up of generators.
PMCS delivers the confidence to control your system and the peace of
mind of an automated response.
Control & Automation module screens

Cost Allocation module screens

Contact information
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