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Power Generation

As well as offering project management services for power generation and infrastructure requirements, JCL International can also provide expertise and assistance within the boundaries of Energy Management & Electrical Grid Management.

Energy Management

Energy Management in the past has usually meant exhaustive and expensive energy auditing of a facility with payback recommendations that often involve significant capital works some of which will realize payback in less than 3 years and others stretching out to a financially impractical 5-10 years or further.

JCL however have adopted a realistic approach where simplified energy audits are conducted that will allow identification of a nominal 20 percent of viable energy reduction concepts and projects that typically realize 80 percent of the overall savings during a target payback period of 3 years. Marginal cases of 3-5 years are also identified and partially quantified for potential further investigation.

Each energy audit utilizes engineering staff with individual experience in this field of in excess of 10 years who identify the annual consumption, and electrical demand where relevant, per item of equipment or device and apply theoretical energy and cost savings where considered realizable, based on their broad experience and recent trends.

Electrical Grid Management

Existing power grid loadings all over the globe are being pushed to the limit with expanding Central Business District (CBD), industrial and suburbia expansion, to the point of failure in some western and developing countries.

Often there are realizable solutions that require participation of end users vs. the cost prohibitive upgrading of high and medium voltage grid reticulation.

For instance formulation of procedures and agreements to have a number of Central Business District (CBD) and or large retail sites with 100% standby power, initiate 100% load shed from the grid when the latter is overloading.

Remuneration is arranged such that participants are paid an annual retainer and a per initiation amount. Cost of generator engine fuel and servicing is carried by each load shed client with the per occurrence payment intended to cover any out of pocket costs of small diesel generation vs. cost at their normal tariff. This standby power operation is usually arranged on a 4 hour minimum load shed period, but extendable should more serious grid load carrying or generation problems arise.

JCL has experience in putting together the potential players in allowing this to happen, with all participants having short and long term benefits and involving no capital works.