Outdoor Systems

•  Custom Electric Control Units
• Telecom & Grounding System Design

Custom Electric Control Units

Are you an electric utility company that utilizes remotely operated initiating devices to transfer your customers to their own secondary generator in your peak load-sharing program?

Consider Wisconsin Power Control’s  Power Control Companion (PCC) to remove the uncertainty from the power transfer process, making the process easier for you and your customers.

Increasing numbers of commercial customers are participating in power control programs due to economic incentives. An increasing proportion of those customers are operating facilities incorporating computerized equipment and processes. There is a need to address the problem of damage to these sensitive equipment and processes resulting from the transfers of power during load shed events. There is also a need to be able to verify, and potentially repair, the operability of customer secondary power sources prior to the transfers. The economic benefit to the customer from participating in utility company power control programs may be outweighed by the risk of penalties for non-performance or the risk of loss of data and other damage to their sensitive equipment and processes. Thus, there is also a benefit to the utility companies in providing a means for the customer to safely participate in its programs.

The PCC is the electrical cogeneration system controller. The PCC controls the method and timing of the transfer of power to and from the utility’s service in conjunction with a standard open transition transfer switch. With the PCC, your customers will get an indication of the servicing utility’s intention to switch their facility on and off of the service grid and onto their secondary power source. The PCC can start their generator, verify that power is available and then delay the transfer of their electrical load (up to utility company limits) so that they have time to shut down systems and processes that will be damaged in the short outage that occurs during an open transfer of power.

Features

• Custom Programs
• Time Delayed Transfer of Load
• Internal UPS
• Various Alarming Methods
• Verification of Generator Start

Benefits

• Tailored to Your Specific Requirements
• Allows You Time to Shut Down Sensitive Equipment and Processes
• No Loss of Memory or Program Interruption
• Allows You to Select What is Best Suited to Your Needs
• Allows You Time for Emergency Repairs to Avoid Penalties from the Utility

Are you a utility customer interested in saving money by participating in a power control or load-sharing program? Do you want to be in control of the transfer when it occurs?

The Power Control Companion (PCC) power controller is the answer to all of your utility co-generation controller concerns. The PCC interface controller brings your secondary power source on-line and gives you alarm capabilities and time delays that enable your facility to shut down any computers or processes that would be harmed by an open transfer of power. Customized programming enables you to notify your facility via audible (paging or intercom announcements) and visual alarms that a transfer of power is imminent.

Electrical utility companies have been faced with growing demands for power. The formation and maintenance of generating facilities to meet occasional and short term peak demands is expensive. As a result, many utility companies have initiated programs for times of peak energy load in which some of the energy is provided by alternative energy sources. Customers are rewarded for participating in these programs by lowered utility rates or other incentives.

Utility company power control programs require that participants provide alternative sources of power to handle energy demands during times of peak load. Unfortunately, when the power transfers during a load-shedding event, the customer has little or no warning such an event is about to take place.

In a typical application of such a load-shedding program, the utility company installs an interface unit at the participating customer’s site. This interface receives a signal from the utility company indicating that a transfer between power sources is about to occur. The signal is relayed to a transfer switch, which transfers power between the primary power source and the customer’s secondary power source (usually a generator) at the beginning and end of such an event.

Transition between two power sources results in momentarily interrupting power to the load. Unexpected and momentary losses of power have been tolerated in the past, however, such an interruption of power is unacceptable in our modern technology age. Digital computers with volatile memories lose all the stored information if power is disconnected for longer than a very short interval. Many of today’s commercial facilities are highly computerized and contain equipment and processes that are sensitive to even these brief momentary losses of power. The transfer of power as it currently occurs can cause data loss and damage to computers and other sensitive electronic equipment, some of which may be unrecoverable. With no notification or time in which to safely shut down these equipment and processes, a utility customer is unable to safely prepare for the power transfer and thereby avoid damage and loss.

The PCC controls the power transfer process to avoid these potential problems. You specify the order in which you want the events to occur after the PCC receives a signal from the utility company stating that a power transfer is imminent. The PCC can activate an audible alarm, make an announcement over an intercom system, have alarm lights flash - whatever you need to alert the employees operating the sensitive equipment that a transfer will occur soon, giving them the time necessary to shut down equipment. The secondary generator is also checked to verify that it is operational. After a specified time, the PCC will switch the power to your secondary generator. The same warning process occurs when the utility company is ready to switch you back to their system. The PCC makes the transfer process occur smoothly so that none of your equipment is damaged and you reap the benefits of participating in the utility’s power control program.

Features

• Custom Programs
• Time Delayed Transfer of Load
• Internal UPS
• Various Alarming Methods
• Verification of Generator Start

Benefits

• Tailored to Your Specific Requirements
• Allows You Time to Shut Down Sensitive Equipment and Processes
• No Loss of Memory or Program Interruption
• Allows You to Select What is Best Suited to Your Needs
• Allows You Time for Emergency Repairs to Avoid Penalties from the Utility

Telecom and Grounding System Design

The Tower System Pack is the complete solution for all your electric service, telephone service and grounding system needs.

• The Metal "H" frame
• The electrical and telephone entrance equipment
• The grounding materials

• 1 - 800A Single phase 120/240V metering pack
• (1 - 800A Main Tap box, 5 - 200A Meter spaces, 4 - 200A 100K AIC breakers, 1 - 100A 100K AIC breaker)
• 1 - 125A Outdoor panel with breakers, conduit and wire from meter pack
• 1 - GFI Outlet mounted on service stand
• 1 - 48" x 36" x 18" Telephone company entrance enclosure with FRP back panel and ground bar installed
• 1 - Outdoor metal service stand, ready to assemble on-site
• 2 - 12"x 60" Round concrete form tubes for concrete bases
• 27 - 5/8" x 10' Cu clad ground rods
• 1000' - #2 Tinned solid copper ground wire, shipped on 2 - 500 foot reels
• 5 - Cadweld molds, Weldmetal and mold handles
• 2 - Gate jumper assemblies
• 1 - Can of Cold Galvanized spray paint
• 1 - 1/4" x 4" x 20" Cu buss bar with insulated mounting hardware
• 2 - 12" x 20" x 12" Deep inspection wells or 8" round PVC pipe type inspection wells
• 2 - Sets of drawings and installation instructions