Waste-to-Energy
Get a clearer picture of how your waste-to-energy facility performs.
Landfill Gas to Energy (LFGTE) plants that convert harvested methane gas to energy are composed of several sub-systems that must operate flawlessly to ensure maximum production output. The methane has to be collected and treated, the engine needs to be controlled, emissions need to be regulated, and power must be transformed and measured before hitting the grid. Having a reliable control system that allows the plant to provide equipment statuses, send out critical alerts, and generate operational reports is critical.
Affinity Energy has experience configuring supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for many LFGTE projects. Our SCADA interfaces are designed to be clear and easy-to-interpret to ensure accurate data analysis and ease of operation. They collect data from multiple points and issue consolidated performance reports showing power plant efficiency and individual equipment maintenance needs. This proactive monitoring helps reduce costs and downtime.
Affinity Energy’s engineers are skilled in programmable logic controller (PLC) development to provide customized functionality and visibility into waste-to-energy treatment systems, engines, electrical switchgear and other related equipment. Because we’re an open systems integrator, customers have a wider range of PLC choices and price points.
Learn how Affinity Energy integrated 22 different pieces of equipment at Concord Energy’s 11MW biomass plant in less than 30 days.
Success Stories
Charlotte Pipe & Foundry
Managing energy costs for large industrial facilities can be challenging. Like many manufacturers, Charlotte Pipe and Foundry (CPF) viewed high energy costs as a necessary…
QTS Data Centers
Data centers and cloud storage are integral components of the digital age. Customers of data centers, both businesses and individuals, demand uninterrupted access…
Concord Energy
Municipalities looking for a renewable energy source can simply look to their local landfill. First, we won’t be running out of trash anytime soon. Second, the organic waste in landfills…
UVA Medical Center - Logs & Alerts
Because of the University of Virginia Medical Center's rapid growth, it was difficult to keep track of and access event details in their central energy plant. When generators tripped...
UVA Medical Center - ATS SUBMETERING
UVA Medical Center has dozens of ATSs distributed throughout campus, but no way of determining if loads were growing over original infrastructure load specifications...
UNC Chapel Hill - Temperature Control
UNC Chapel Hill needed a solution to regulate temperature in a thousand research rooms...without being held hostage to proprietary programming technology...
Solar SCADA & Field Controls
A large solar developer with concurrent solar projects needed to finalize SCADA at eight sites before the end of 2017 in order to meet tax equity implications...
Steel Mill - Active Power Management
Affinity Energy helps a high-power steel mill in the southeast maximize output, upgrade their EPMS software, troubleshoot meters, and maintain visibility to voltage disturbances.
Novant Health - Alarm Annunciator
Novant Health and Carolina CAT seek assistance from Affinity Energy in an emergency generator audible alarming compliance situation.
NextEra - SCADA & Field Controls
Two 80-MW sites required significant changes to the PLC code and SCADA HMI due to the incorporation of a new OEM's inverters.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Commission chose Affinity Energy to upgrade their power monitoring SCADA system. The completed system...
Southeast Hospital System Alarming
A large hospital system in the Southeast with multiple Central Energy Plants needed a way to keep an eye on SCADA and critical alarms at three plants...with just one operator.
Woman's Hospital - GE Integration
Affinity Energy was chosen by GE for a simple SCADA integration, but ended up also solving several frustrating power monitoring issues for end-user Woman’s Hospital.
Novant Health - Generator Alarming
Novant Health and Carolina CAT seek a new generator audible alarming solution to simplify NFPA compliance for the addition of new engine-generators.
UVA - PME SCADA Migration
A large university transitions automation systems to a single power management system, and encounters challenges in user interface design and navigation along the way.
DC Blox - Customized SCADA
Affinity Energy architects a high availability, scalable EPMS and SCADA solution that manages critical equipment & reports customer power usage.
Bank of America - CFMS Migration
A new building provided the perfect opportunity to fund the Bank of America Tower CFMS migration to Ignition software.
Conetoe Solar Farm
In 2015/2016, Duke Energy Renewables wanted to outfit their new 80MW solar farm in Conetoe, North Carolina with controls and insight into each critical operational piece of equipment...
Duke Energy Solar Site Monitoring
Duke Energy wished to integrate solar data from North Carolina sites acquired from other solar installers into their overarching SCADA system of renewable resources...
JLL/Bank of America - CFMS Failure
When the CFMS unexpectedly failed for Bank of America, JLL turned to Affinity Energy for a quick turnaround to get the system back online.
Noncompliant Ramp Rate Response
A 20MW site in violation of their interconnection agreement looked to Affinity Energy to correct ramping behavior and remove oscillation in curtailed output.
Situational Awareness HMI
A landfill gas to pipeline project looked to Affinity Energy to deploy a highly sophisticated controls and monitoring solution with situational awareness design and ISA-101...
Mercedes-Benz Stadium - EPMS
Mercedes-Benz Stadium needed an electrical power management system (EPMS) to ensure computing continuity to control stadium lights and broadcasts...