Instrumentation for Control and Optimization of Energy Technologies

提高能源效率和优化能源使用的努力正在推动各种工业和消费技术的发展，这些技术提供了控制电力负荷的能力。许多这些新兴技术尚未得到广泛测试或实施，以协调当地电力或其他能源系统的需求。拟议中的设备扩展了NSCC正在进行的能源监测研究，并增加了测试硬件和软件功能的能源控制功能的能力。电气控制系统的安全可靠运行要求设备和仪表符合严格的标准，并符合工程标准和电气规范。这些设备升级代表了能源管理工具的一个适度的例子，但它们将为具有独特的非峰值可再生能源（如潮汐能）的地区的能源控制的实际应用研究提供一个非常重要的平台。该设备支持的研究项目将开发下一代能源控制系统，用于工业、商业和住宅规模的集成部署。该设备将允许测试和开发各种能源管理软件工具和应用程序，并将帮助学生成为电工，技术人员和技术人员的劳动力，为这个快速发展的能源创新领域的职业做好准备。

Efforts to increase energy efficiency and optimize energy usage are pushing the development of a variety of industrial and consumer technologies that offer the ability to control electrical loads. Many of these emerging technologies have not been widely tested or implemented to coordinate with the needs of local electrical or other energy systems. The proposed equipment expands on NSCC's ongoing energy-monitoring research and adds capacity to test energy-control features for both hardware and software functions. Safe and reliable operation of electrical control systems requires equipment and instrumentation meeting stringent criteria and compliance with engineering standards and electrical codes. These equipment upgrades represent a modest example of energy management tools, but they will provide a very important platform for practical applied research in energy control for a region with unique off-peak renewables such as tidal energy. The research programs supported by this equipment will be developing next-generation energy control systems for integration for industrial, commercial and residential scale deployment. The equipment will allow the testing and development of a variety of energy management software tools and applications and will help lead students into a workforce of electricians, technologists, and technicians ready for a career in this rapidly evolving area of energy innovation.