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Even businesses with complex, energy-intensive production processes can control electricity use without compromising production. An advanced demand management system enables key strategies.

How can we produce enough sustainable energy while avoiding unacceptable environmental consequences? ISA's book, Future Energy, explores the options.

ImpactChoice will use eSight’s web-based energy management software to analyze energy usage information and provide consultancy services to their clients.

Ramping Up for the 55th Annual Power Industry Symposium (POWID)

Steam temperature controls standard reaffirmed for 2012

The Building Automation Systems Division was organized for building automation professionals who design, build, install, troubleshoot, operate and manage building automation systems, and who seek to a

Fossil Fuel Committee Publishes Functional Requirements

There is too much hype about the smart grid without looking at the core problems from an engineering and business point of view.

Energy harvesting is the ideal solution for indefinite long-term powering of wireless sensor nodes or networks (WSN) without maintenance.

ISA Announces Energy Track at ISA Automation Week 2011

Power generation industry vendors are looking for ways to augment or retrofit their systems so that they’re able to provide the functions the owner operators will need.

Power, control two different issues

What's Happening in the Power Industry

Electricity and heat fired with bio fuels, including sawdust, woodchips, bark, turf if part of the cogeneration equation.

The energy management system will be used to collect data from the power plants’ information systems, steam consumers and service providers.

Many applications use one or more motors operating in parallel at the same desired speed. Using one Variable frequency drive (VFD) to control these multiple motors provides a host of advantages

Opto 22 added Pulse energy management software to connect to customers' metering devices, electrical panels, machines and equipment.

Solid-state relays (SSR) are able to perform many of the same tasks as electromechanical relay (EMR)s. The main difference is that SSRs have no moving mechanical parts within it.

The first step in any power quality strategy is developing a complete understanding of your electrical environment, implementing a good power distribution system design and using good grounding techniques. If you want virtually maintenance free protection from a wide range of power problems, the constant voltage transformer, correctly applied, is still one of the best forms of total power conditioning.

This paper reviews practical approaches to having a dependable monitoring capability as well as provide signal sources for a periodic monitoring program.