Customer Success Story: Environmental Power Corporation (Microgy)
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- GENESIS32™
- GraphWorX™
- TrendWorX™
- AlarmWorX™
- WebHMI™
Tech Stack
- Automation Software
- Data Collection Software
- Monitoring Software
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Energy Saving
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Renewable Energy
- Agriculture
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Energy Management System
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- System Integration
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Microgy is a subsidiary of Environmental Power Corporation, a company that has been contributing to environmentally responsible energy operations since 1982. Microgy develops facilities to efficiently and reliably produce clean, renewable gas from agriculture and food industry wastes. The company uses anaerobic digestion, where methane-rich biogas is extracted from waste to produce electric power. This process not only generates fuel used in various applications but also reduces manure odor and creates significant quantities of marketable carbon credits. The biogas is utilized in internal combustion engines to generate electric power and heat, used as-is to offset fossil fuels, or is captured and further refined to pipeline quality Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).
The Challenge
Microgy, a subsidiary of Environmental Power Corporation, develops facilities to efficiently and reliably produce clean, renewable gas from agriculture and food industry wastes. The company uses anaerobic digestion, where methane-rich biogas is extracted from waste to produce electric power, helping farms and businesses responsibly manage the wastes they generate. The company operates in four renewable energy facilities across the United States' Western and Midwestern regions. The challenge was to monitor and control systems at these facilities, provide real-time monitoring and control, and convey data from remote locations to a corporate location in Tarrytown, New York.
The Solution
ICONICS automation solutions were applied in four of Microgy’s renewable energy facilities. The software solutions deployed include GENESIS32™, GraphWorX™, TrendWorX™, and AlarmWorX™, which are used to monitor and control systems at Microgy’s facilities. AlarmWorX MMX provides paging for alarms. At Microgy’s corporate level, ICONICS’ WebHMI™ provides internal access and visibility to all sites. Over the course of three months per facility, Wunderlich-Malec Engineering integrated ICONICS’ monitoring and control systems. The control system is designed to provide automatic operation of all systems components with built-in fail to safe modes in the event of an upset. Data is conveyed from remote locations to a corporate location in Tarrytown, New York via WebHMI, providing data collection, batch-transfer, and trending from all sites.
Operational Impact
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