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This feeds into the discourse about a power shortage of another kind the allegedly
waning power of President Aquino. Last year there were controversies about pork barrel funding
through legislative-executive collaboration, and a flexible executive budgetary process
(the Disbursement Acceleration Program), both of which were declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court. Many warned that without these political tools the presidents influence over the
legislative. [14]
What we see today in the Philippines is more a country that has come to confront its
internal demons than an emerging market firmly placed on an inexorable tiger road. Nothing
underscores this complex picture more than the latest uproar over an alleged collusion among
power-generating companies to introduce a further hike in electricity prices. To put things into
perspective, the Philippines already has Asia's most expensive electricity rates, even higher than
post-Fukushima Japan. Such prohibitive rates have not only hurt ordinary consumers, but have
also served as among the strongest disincentives against manufacturing investments in the
country. [17]
But there is a deeper lesson to draw from the Philippines' power-generation predicament.
Contrary to the conventional analysis forwarded by most analysts, including Karen Brooks, what
the Philippines needs the most is not more privatization and economic liberalization per se -which have actually exacerbated rather than ameliorated the country's structural economic
weaknesses since the 1990s -- but instead a stronger state that (a) can bust oligarchic collusion,
and (b) protect the interest of the consumers and productive sectors of the economy. And we
The Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), on the other hand, which commenced
its Visayas WESM in early 2011. By October 2012, the integrated WESM had a total of 124
participants comprised of 54 generating companies and 47 customer trading participants
comprised of six Private Distribution Utilities (PDUs), 26 Electric Cooperatives (ECs), 13 bulk
end-users and seven wholesale aggregators. Approximately 2,636GWH, translating to 9.2
percent of the total energy consumed in the Luzon and Visayas regions, were traded in the
WESM from October 2011 to April 2012, while the remaining 90.8 percent of the total volume
was transacted and settled outside the market. [18]
Our shortage of electricity is a real, serious problem that we cannot downplay. But if we
focus exclusively on it, we run the risk of seeing just the trees and not the forest. That was what
then energy undersecretary Rufino Bomasang told participants of a media briefing on business
and economics reporting convened by the Press Foundation of Asia at Los Baos, Laguna almost
two decades ago. Today, the scenario has not changed. In an article which appeared in Business
Mirror, Adam Jones wrote: As it stands, the (Philippines) relies heavily on outside sources of
energy, which account for roughly 65 percent of its energy needs. However, despite slowing
industrial demand for power, some industry insiders still believe the country could face a power
shortage of 3000 megawatts by 2012. Speaking in London in June 1997, then British
environment minister Michael Meacher said: Energy policies should be designed to promote
cleaner, more efficient energy use and production. We want a new and strong drive to develop
renewable energy sources. Doing so will create jobs, win exports and protect the environment.
Jones agrees. As the Philippines continue to pursue a path of global competitiveness, it is
becoming evident that securing an adequate energy supply will be ever more critical to its
growing industries. Harnessing renewable energy will surely play a larger role in the years to
As for our project, the load power control, it can manipulate the on and off system of
each appliances that are connected to the device via text message using GSM module. This
project can help out in terms of power saving or power consumption because it limits the
allowable power to distribute in every load, it also make sure that no load will overheat. Occur
because all of the load that are connected to device can virtually control and tend to shut down
once it detects overload s and high power consumption than the allowable power to use. The user
can send message to the device according to its code and the device connected on a particular
outlet to turn on or off. On the other hand the device can also send message to the user to inform
that the power consumption is high.
Edisons generators produced DC power, which worked fine for local distribution, but required
either very large cables to supply loads more than a few blocks away, or a power station every
few blocks. This is because, at voltages practical for end use, large currents were required to
electrify more than just a small area. Enter Nikola Tesla, backed by George Westinghouse, who
promoted high-voltage AC transmission lines with a low voltage substation every few blocks for
local distribution. The important difference was the substation only required a transformer, while
the DC solution required a complete steam-powered power plant. [16]
Ultimately, Westinghouse settled the war that ensued when he built a hydroelectric plant at
Niagra Falls that was able to supply loads hundreds of miles away. However, in the few
extremely long, point-to-point transmission lines, the balance tips back toward very high voltage
DC transmission lines (e.g., the power line from Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State to Los
Angeles).
AC power enabled many other inventions key to industrialization, from the induction motor and
gas discharge lamp ballasts to light dimmers and electric shavers. But part of the dark side of AC
power is this notion of power factor. The voltage for DC power is constant, so there is no phase
associated with it; AC power is (ideally) sinusoidal, with the voltage and current crossing 0 V at
120 times a second (twice per 60 Hz cycle). If the load (or even the power line) is slightly
inductive or capacitive, the current will either lag or lead the voltage. [14]
The power source to the PE system may be a DC or AC supply, depending upon the application
or condition of that location. The output of the PE system may be a variable AC or DC voltage or
may be a variable voltage and frequency. Thus, the power needs to be processed in between the
source and load. This is done with the help of a converter.
A failure in the converter affects the users, and the loss in the converter is the loss in the overall
system. A converter must be reliable and must be made of components having a negligible loss
such as semiconductor switches. The feedback component measures the parameters of the load
and compares it with a command signal. The difference of the two serves as a basis for the turnon and turn-off commands of the power electronics device. [14]
Monitoring the load on the motor that is driving a machine or process can give you
valuable information since this motor reflects the changes that are going on. On a mixer or
agitator, for example, as the viscosity increases, it will take more power to stir the mixture and
The purpose of this paper is to explore the conceptual requirements and opportunities to
develop load control schemes that are competitive with conventional generation based
approaches to providing power system control services. In principle, practically any measure that
can be taken by generating units (i.e., the supply side) to ensure that electricity generation and
load are equal has an equivalent countermeasure that can be taken by loads (the demand side).
The primary characteristic of load control that distinguishes it from conventional generationbased approaches is that it must deliver a reliable resource to the power system while
simultaneously maintaining a level of service commensurate with customer expectations. These
two objectives are often in competition, and one of the greatest technical challenges to the
competitiveness of engaging loads in power system services is to develop approaches that
balance these objectives. In order to balance systemic and local control objectives, we believe
load control schemes must meet the dual goals of being both fully responsive and non-disruptive.
In this context, we define fully responsive as enabling high-resolution system-level control
across multiple time scales. This is desirable for load control competitiveness because
conventional generation based approaches is they fully responsive. Furthermore, we define nondisruptive control as having an imperceptible effect on end-use performance [such as building
temperature, lighting levels, pump speeds, and electric vehicle state of charge (SoC)]. No
disruptiveness underpins the reliability and cost of providing load control: strategies that are
disruptive run the risk of frustrating customers to the point where they withdraw from the
program or demand higher payments to participate. Though we will discuss price response in this
paper, we will focus on direct load control and how organizations such as distribution utilities or
third-party companies might aggregate loads to achieve a desired response, possibly for
integration into electricity markets. [15]
OUTPUT
Testing
Assembly
of Sensors,
Languages
Processors,
PROCESS
for PIC
Displays
Microcontrollers
and Drivers
Testing Software Applications
Creating a System Design Block Diagram, Schematics, and Layouts
4. Reactive Power Control and Voltage Stability Methods in Power System Network
- The intent of this paper is to present an analysis of reactive power control and
voltage stability in power systems. It identifies a new model used to enhance
voltage stability and exposes several key issues that had remained as research
challenges in this area. The steady state voltage and reactive power control in
distribution systems can be properly controlled by coordinating the available
GSM Modem
A GSM modem is a specialized type of modem which accepts a SIM card, and operates
over a subscription to a mobile operator, just like a mobile phone. From the mobile operator
perspective, a GSM modem looks just like a mobile phone.GSM Modem comes in various
interfaces, such as PCMCIA Type II, USB, and Serial. GSM Modem is however the main
difference is that GSM Modem is wireless, while dial-up modem is wired.
Relay
A relay is an electrically operated switch. Many relays use an electromagnet to mechanically
operate a switch, but other operating principles are also used, such as solid-state relays. Relays
are used where it is necessary to control a circuit by a low-power signal (with complete electrical
isolation between control and controlled circuits), or where several circuits must be controlled by
one signal. The first relays were used in long distance telegraph circuits as amplifiers: they
repeated the signal coming in from one circuit and re-transmitted it on another circuit. Relays
were used extensively in telephone exchanges and early computers to perform logical operations.
In [2] the present system of energy billing is error prone and also time and labor consuming.
Errors get introduced at every stage of energy billing like errors with electro-mechanical meters,
human errors while noting down the meter reading, and errors while processing the paid bills and
the due bills. The home appliances which consume more power cause an increase in the payment
of excessive bills. The remedy for all these problems GPMC (GSM based power meter and
control system) is developed which consist of the integration of a single phase Class 1,
IEC61036, standard compliance digital kWh power meter. It will keep track of the meter reading
of each day and the reading with the user identification number send it to the user as well as to
the electricity department and Electricity e-Billing system associated with electricity department
will keep the track of each SMS meter reading and the appropriate bill get generated at the last
day of the month and the bill is forwarded to user from the server. So there is no chance of
confusion to the user for paying the bill. The GPMC also feature distribution control system
which controls the power of the appliances remotely.
In [3] the remote power distribution system using GSM aims to design and implement efficient
and cost effective solution for replacing the manual process of power cut/load shedding from a
centralized location. It consists of two GSM modems, one at the control station and the other one
connected to the transformer from where the electricity is divided into certain branches in an
In [4] the application of computer interfaced controlling devices increasingly rapidly in modem
age. Analogous wired systems are substituted by computer interfaced system alternatives in
growing number of industries. Such control systems had been developed with complex and
critical high-end stuffs. In this paper, we developed an automated system that controls the
switching of electric feeder power supply featuring the existing GSM technology. The target is to
operate the device according to a preset sequence of on-off mode for three feeders after a
particular time interval and to monitor the running condition. The device sends short message
updating the status of every action. It also warms the consumers about load shedding using GSM
module via sending message. Controlling the gate pulse of a MOSFET that operates the relay, it
executes on-off operation of the circuit breaker of the respective feeders. Since GSM technology
is used worldwide for communication, third world countries that are still struggling to meet the
power demand can use this technology to operate and monitor the condition of power
distribution. To operate the GSM device, AT command of GSM location operation for SIM900 is
used. This paper targets to improve the power distributing system in developing countries like
India, Bangladesh, Nepal where power crisis load shedding quite a common phenomenon.
In [5] this paper presents the development of Automatic Trip Control System for Energy
Management using GSM. The proposed system monitors the usage level of electricity of every
consumer at all the time. During excess of electrical energy used by consumer, the system will
give the alerts through an alarm circuit. After the alarm circuit, the consumer has to take an
alternative solution to cut-off excess supply from the Electricity Board (EB) to stop alarming.
In [6] the load monitoring and protection on electrical power lines are important factors in
Electricity Field. The Paper proposes a monitoring of Load and Power lines using SMS based
GSM Technology. The Proposed methodology is designed and implemented using mobile
embedded system to monitor and record load fluctuations with respect to current and voltage in
electric power lines and it also controls the same when line breaks during high load. The
proposed on-line monitoring system integrates a Global Service Mobile (GSM) Modem;
withstand along single chip microcontroller and sensor packages. It is installed at the site and
above mentioned parameter are recorded using -in -8-channel analog to digital convert (ADC) of
the embedded system .The acquired parameters are processed and recorded in the system
memory. If there is any abnormality according to some predefined instruction and policies that
are stored on the embedded system EEPROM then GSM alerts to concerned control room
immediately. This mobile system will help the utilities to optimally utilize the protection of
power line and identify problems before any catastrophic failure. This system provides flexible
control of load parameters accurately and also provides effective means for rectification of faults
if any abnormality occurs in power lines using SMS through GSM network.
In [7] this project is also designed to protect the electrical circuitry by operating an
Electromagnetic Relay. This Relay gets activated whenever the electrical parameters exceed the
predefined values. The Relay can be used to operate a Circuit Breaker to switch off the main
electrical supply. User can send commands in the form of SMS messages to read the remote
In [8] the Modern world intelligent control is adopted in every field, although the service
provider for energy are still uses the conventional methods for getting the energy consumed by
the customer. The conventional method is very time consuming and expensive which may also
lead to human error. Our proposed method will automatically send the data of the digital energy
meter to the service provider with the help of the GSM modem once in a day and hence the
system will generate a report and send to the service provider once in a day through SMS. The
same system can be used to check the last reading consumed by the consumer, when the demand
request send by the user through the same methodology. It can also be used to control the load
from both the ends with the help of relay circuit. An LCD display is provided to display the
readings and to update the consumers informations such as tariff change or sudden power cut.
In [9] Electrical energy is very important form of energy source in present day to day life. It
should be used very practical expediency for its proper utilization. But in India we have lot of
position where we have a more than necessary of production of supply for the electricity; still
many areas do not have the electrical supply for utilization. Distribution of electrical energy are
also responsible for encouragement of utilization because we are still not able to correctly
estimate our exact requirements of load by consumers and still power theft existing at a
particular time. Consumers are also not satisfied with the service providing by the power
In [10] these days the electricity department has to send employees for taking meter reading
every month, which is an expensive and time consuming job. This project provides a convenient
and efficient method to avoid this problem. The electricity office can take the readings of
consumers using GSM at their place. The desired number is auto saved on the microcontroller
over a missed call. The main objective of the project is to develop a wireless based energy meter
reading system. Also the loads can be controlled GSM using this project. The microcontroller
takes the reading from the energy meter and displays the reading on the LCD. The reading of the
energy meter is also sent to the control room by a message via GSM modem. This GSM modem
also receives commands from any cell phone to control the electrical loads. It uses a standard
energy meter that delivers output pulses for microcontroller to do counting for necessary action.
On receiving command it can even switch ON/OFF the load. The power supply consists of a step
down transformer 230/12V, which steps down the voltage to 12V AC. This is converted to DC
using a Bridge rectifier. The ripples are removed using a capacitive filter and it is then regulated
to +5V using a voltage regulator 7805 which is required for the operation of the microcontroller
and other components.
Chapter 3
Research Design and Methodology
3.1
Test the current transformer with the applied load flat iron, 220 volts
source that are series in connection.
Scope and measure the results of the wave form of the oscilloscope and
the multi-tester.
Applied the modules with its application sheets with its interfacing for the
microcontrollers.
Test the modules with the application software provided by the module
instructions.
First, before to test this IC microcontroller, make the module type board
for the microcontroller.
Build the program and simulate both software application and the
hardware application.
Those test including the interfacing with the sensors, drivers and other
modules.
Make the design specified the power supply by the transformer at 230v
AC at 60Hz input and the output in center tap form of 12v DC at 3A.
The regulated output DC at 12v 3A with adapter for GSM and 5v 1.5A for
Microcontroller.
3.1.3
includes the process of the microcontroller presented in flow charts (It must be to be
follow up, presently under of investigation during design and process.)
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