Energy Management Systems

Abstract

Scarcity of energy resources, higher costs associated to energy production, tariff changes and price incentives, consumer education towards rational use of energy, high number of different types of energy consuming processes and different levels of complexity of the associated control strategies, need for global optimization, microprocessor availability at lower and lower prices, more and more efficient data communication techniques, equipment standardization efforts-all these items, and more that could be mentioned without effort, may be easily related between them. Many cause-effect relations are easily identified, all leading to the conclusion that computer-based systems had to be the natural choice for most energy management applications.