TotalEnergies and Schneider Electric have began development on a 2-MW photo voltaic microgrid system with a 1.25-MW battery vitality storage system in California. As soon as development has been accomplished, the photo voltaic microgrid will likely be built-in with the brand new Rockwell/Allen Bradley distributed management system (DCS) at pure gasoline producer Aemetis‘ Superior Fuels biorefinery in Keyes.
Foundations for the photo voltaic array are actually below development, with undertaking completion anticipated in Q2 2023. TotalEnergies serves because the undertaking’s PV provider in addition to the engineering, procurement and development (EPC) contractor.
“The microgrid creates vitality resiliency and can help with off-peak load shedding and vitality effectivity,” mentioned Eric McAfee, chairman and CEO of Aemetis. “This microgrid, together with different energy-saving applied sciences being carried out at our low-carbon ethanol facility, will additional scale back the carbon depth rating of the gas ethanol produced.”
The AI-enabled management system will run on virtualized servers, lowering the quantity of pc {hardware} by 80%, which would require much less energy to function than conventional techniques. The digital surroundings can even assist scale back deliberate and unplanned downtime.
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