ENERGY BALANCE OPTIMIZATION AT A LARGE STEEL MANUFACTURING PLANT.
With an existing – but old – power plant on site, consisting mainly of steam generators feeding steam turbines, the goal of the client was two-fold. First, to provide operators with real-time guidance on the use of the power plant components, so that the quarter-hourly energy commitments could be respected and costly imbalance penalties avoided. Second, to optimize the weekly commitments to take best advantage of daily electricity price peaks and lows in a realistic machine utilization plan.
