Secure Planet, in cooperation with Emacx Systems, Inc., currently offers intelligent peak-load control (iPLC) systems to Government facilities throughout the United States. Based on the highly efficient European approach to automatic energy curtailment, and proven in the US commercial sector, the Emacx iPLC system helps facility managers minimize demand charges while maximizing revenues earned through demand-response programs.
As a result, the iPLC system routinely delivers investment payback periods of less than two years for facilities consuming more than 500kW.
The iPLC system curtails the peak power loads of a facility through a sophisticated feedback-control process that operates in a fail-safe mode. It also eliminates disruptions to operations, discomfort to end-users, and degrading stress to machinery. Equipped with intelligent monitoring technology and state-of-the-art microelectronics, the system measures and regulates power demands in real time. Connected loads are curtailed to ensure that aggregate power demand remains below the desired threshold, based on live energy data and end-users' priorities.
The iPLC therefore mitigates disproportionately expensive demand peaks while maintaining end-user operations and comfort. By gradually changing the power flowing to individual components, such as air handlers, fans, motors, and pumps, the iPLC system also avoids the destructive stresses associated with on-off demand controllers (both manual and automatic).
