Quasar Control Utility (QCU) is a powerful, highly flexible ‘Control Engine’ providing intelligent control of your network’s infrastructure. QCU puts you in control of your network and provides you with an intuitive and easy to use interface backed by industry leading functionality.
QCU load control software is designed specifically for networks to manage their peak loads. It is powerful enough to manage even the largest network, whilst being agile enough to be used to manage single substations.
Controlling loads can be highly beneficial where your network capacity is constrained, or you are participating in part of a regional load control program.
QCU load control software is designed specifically for networks to manage their peak loads. It is powerful enough to manage even the largest network, whilst being agile enough to be used to manage single substations.
Controlling loads can be highly beneficial where your network capacity is constrained, or you are participating in part of a regional load control program.
How QCU Works
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QCU provides the tools and information required to be able to make decisions affecting your network and can be used to automatically shed selected loads to reduce peak loads on your network.
QCU integrates with your existing SCADA or control systems, and provides a signal when conditions are right to turn load off or restore the load to meet requirements. The system uses configurable rules (algorithms) to switch loads. Rules are set-up at the time of commissioning and can be left to operate automatically or can be modified as often as needed. QCU will not compromise your network quality, as you set limits to ensure that network variables such as minimum on time periods are never breached. |
Features & Benefits
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Dashboards
The configurable dashboards enable quick access to all parts of the software and have been designed to be user friendly and easy to navigate. When not logged on, the dashboards will automatically display as a slideshow.
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Reporting
The reporting tool provides a range of scheduled and ad-hoc reporting that is easily tailored to suit site requirements and these reports can be viewed, saved or emailed automatically.
The Reporting Package Compiler can pull together the reports you select, along with external documents, into a user defined format to enable ease of reporting. All reports and data are easily exported to other programs. |
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Security
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QCU has password protection using military grade encryption to ensure your network is protected.
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Data Recording
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This feature allows for the integration and recording of any external inputs into the system for reporting purposes. For example, weather inputs from an onsite weather station.
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Data Interface
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The Data Interface feature allows a mapping to be configured such that Quasar Control will behave as a slave device to another system, such as a SCADA. This feature could be used to accept a target from another system such as DERMS. This feature also allows the health, status and measurements from QCU to be shared with other systems.
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Load Target Modeller
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The Load Target Modeller forms the basis for load management calculations, decisions and load shed or unshed actions. The model consists of 48, 30-minute targets for each day of the week. During each 30-minute interval, QCU will assess and forecast the load on your network and according to filters and rules, control the loads as required.
The modeller enables you to set up different models depending on your requirements, for example you can have models set for different seasons. |
Utility Rules Library
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The Utility Rules Library gives you the ability to apply any combination of targeted or logical decision rules. This ensures that you can configure the rules so they react accordingly to the logic and targets set, and can be set to include historical data and external inputs.
Rules can be set at a network or substation level. The Utility Rules Library includes the Instantaneous Target Rule and Interval Demand Rule, and customised rules can be developed. |
EM6 Feed
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A feed from EM6 Live to ensure the latest market pricing information can be used for decision making is included in QCU-06 and QCU-15, and is optional for QCU-02.
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QCU is Available at Three Levels
* Systems with more than 15 substations are available on request
