A

SYNOPSIS
ON

POWER & ENERGY MONITORING

SUBMITTED IN THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF
THE DEGREE OF

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

SESSION:-2014-2015
IN THE GUIDENCE OF
Submitted to:

Submitted by:

Mr. Harpreet Singh

Ashok Kumar Verma

[HOD. of Electrical Department]

(11EIAEE013)

INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

NORTH EXTENSION , M.I.A, ALWAR (301030)

INTRODUCTION
The aim of the power system has always been to supply electrical energy to customers.
Energy Audit means the verification, monitoring and analysis of use of energy including
submission of technical report
efficiency with

cost

benefit

containing recommendations

analysis

and

an

action

plan

for improving energy

to

reduce

energy

consumption. Energy audit is an important process to be carried out for energy conservation.

The Basic Energy Monitoring Models

AIM
The aim of this work is to develop a method that is suitable for efficient monitoring of
power qualities in sustainable energy system like solar energy etc.

CAUSES OF POWER QUALITY PROBLEMS

Internal causes

Approximately 80% of electrical problems originate within a business facility.

Potential culprits may include large equipments start or shut down, improper wiring
and grounding, overloaded circuits or harmonics.

External causes

About 20% of power quality problems originate with the utility transmission and
distribution system .The most common cause is a lightning strike; other possibilities
include equipments failure, vehicle accidents, weather conditions, neighboring
business and even normal operation of utility equipments.

OBJECTIVES OF POWER & ENERGY MONITORING

The objectives of a monitoring program determine the choice of measuring equipments and
triggering thresholds.
Proactive approach:
This approach of monitoring is intended to characterize the system
performance. A power producer may find this objective important because this
helps to understand the system performance and then be able to match the
system performance with customer needs.
Reactive approach:
This kind of monitoring is intended to characterize a specific problem. Many
services solve power quality problems by performing short term monitoring at
specific customers or at different loads.

POWER QUALITY MONITORS

Portable monitor
Permanently installed full system monitor
ADVANTAGES
Increased Comfort
Cost Savings
Environmental Impact
Ensures power system reliability.
Identify the source and frequency of events.
Helps in the preventive and predictive maintenance.
Determine the need for mitigation equipments.
Reduction of energy expenses and risk avoidances.
Process improvements monitoring systems allows to identify the most
sensitive equipments and install power conditioning systems where necessary.

APPLICATION
For Home Energy Audit
Industries Energy Audit

CONCLUSION
Power qualities of sustainable energy are also affected due to increasing sensitivity of the
equipments and devices used by the customers, and need proper monitoring and analysis for
mitigation purposes. Traditional monitoring methods are based on the RMS measurements

and constrained by their accuracies. The use of such advanced techniques makes the power
quality monitoring system more accurate and the power system more reliable.

FUTURE OF POWER QUALITY

In 10 years time, it may well be that equipment has become fully compatible with the power
supply and does not cause any disturbance to the customers. However, there is no indication
that this will happen soon. So right now the emphasis is on mitigation equipments and on
intelligent power quality monitoring systems which enables the automatic classification and
analysis of the measured data.

REFERENCES
[1] D&R International Ltd, 2010 Building Energy Data Book.: U.S Departement of Energy
DOE, 2011.
[2] J.S.Haberl, M. Lui, J. Houcek and A. Athar David E. Claridge, "Can You Achieve 150%
of Predicted Retrofit Savings: Is It Time for Recommissioning?," Washington, D.C, no. Vol.
5, pp. 73-87, summer 1994.
[3] Konstantinos D. Patlitzianas, Konstantinos Iatropoulos and John Psarras Haris Doukas,
"Intelligent building energy management system using rule sets," Building and Environment,
Oct 2006.