PEAK HOUR LOAD RUN OFF DETECTION AND

PREVENTION SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

Energy is the basic necessity for life. Different forms of energy are
converted into electric energy. If the source of energy is insufficient to satisfy the
human needs, then occurs a condition called energy crisis.

Our state electricity board (KSEB) also faces the problem of energy crisis,
especially at peak hours, government had implemented many plan to face this
energy crisis; some of the plans are high cost per unit, additional billing, and load
shedding. Among them load shedding is one of the vital factor needs to be
considered for discussion. This load shedding is caused by the low generation of
electricity. Hence the “load” means the amount of current supplied by the
generating station at any given time. “Shedding” means that the supply of electric
current has been reduced. As a result the supply is cut off in some areas and there
is load shedding.

Load shedding causes a great loss, discomfort and inconvenience to the

people as well as the country. The production of our mills and factories and small
scale industries suffer much. Domestic life is also affected to a great extent.

Our project “PEAK HOUR LOAD RUN OFF DETECTION AND

PREVENTION SYSTEM” is a smart device work in stand alone or can be in
cooperated in the energy meter itself, which is active on peak hours. The peak hour
period can be set by the authorities who is in concern and its working is based
upon the amount of load consumed. If the consumption is above the permitted
level, individual load shedding is the result. Just before load shedding, number of
warnings are been provided.

To be a demand control device, this system mainly aims to control the

increase in demand especially at peak hour and also to irradiate the defects and
discomfort provided by the existing system for the load control. Consumers are
allowed to control their load, so if they succeed in load control, they would not be
able to face the load shedding. Hence the consumer can decide their load shedding.

Consumers are allowed to sue only particular amount of power as permitted

by the board. The existing method could not be able to detect the over usage of
power by the consumers, hence by the use of a demand controlling device may be
able to detect it easily and quickly. Another important advantage of this device is
consumer will aware about energy saving and practice to use energy efficient
machineries and households. Also the board has to feed only fixed amount power
since the load may not be allowed to increase above the permitted level by the
device. Thus this system reduces the overall consumption of power which is of
great interest.