Argand Solutions

Milton Keynes College BREEAM Metering

Argand Solutions have completed the design, build and supply of a BREEAM-compliant energy and water monitoring hub at Milton Keynes College on behalf of PANDA CES (https://lnkd.in/eypgZTgb). The BREEAM hub will enable the college to achieve their BREEAM ENE-02 energy monitoring and WAT-02 water monitoring compliance. The Argand BREEAM hub solution connects to all of the electricity and water sub meters within the college and enables the real / near-time extraction of electrical (energy and power quality) and water data which can then be visualised via Argand’s GridLENZ platform. As part of BREEAM, it is imperative to provide analysis to enable the breakdown of electrical plant by power and lighting which GridLENZ provides. In addition, our energy dashboard provides total energy consumed, exported and generated on-site for a high level overview of electrical and water flows. For more information about how we can help with BREEAM and wider monitoring requirements, please get in touch.

Macallan Distillery ... Argand Solutions were engaged by Emtec Energy (https://www.emtecenergy.co.uk/) to provide
a G100/2 export limitation and SCADA solution for a project they were delivering for Macallan Distillery https://www.themacallan.com - a 2.1MWp, behind-the-meter (BTM)
ground-mounted solar project. With a high-voltage (HV) connection to the Grid, Argand Solutions designed a G100/2 export
limitation solution that enabled real-time monitoring from their HV incoming supply communicating across a significant distance to our main control solution that dynamically managed 14x solis inverters based on the sites fluctuating demand profile.
As part of the ongoing monitoring and data collection, Argand were engaged to provide real / near-time data via their SCADA interface on the GridLENZ platform. As such, our GridGEM
solution collects, processes and communicates data to our cloud platform including weather assets to enable performance ratio (PR) calculations and assess the overall performance of the
PV-system. In addition, GridLENZ is capturing inverter string level data to allow the O&M team to detect any
problems early and optimize the performance of the PV-system.
Through use of Argand’s cloud platform, users can enable real-time alerts to inform them of any situations on site that may require attention such as a loss of communication or faults to
inverter(s).

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Using Argand's GridMap software, our team worked with a client based in Mexico, (where there are significant constraints in place on imported energy), to model a 'peak shaving' strategy which demonstrated the size of battery required in order to keep imported energy levels within the contracted demands of the Network Operator plus the economic and carbon impacts. Fraser Durham: "The client is very happy with the capacity for GridMAP to model their requirements, as not all battery modelling software solutions are able to clearly show these impacts across a range of battery sizes; finding the optimum size is crucial for this client, as exceeding demand would likely result in the site being shut off." For more information, contact the team on +(44)1803-864706 or e-mail [email protected]