That’s pretty neat! Is there a central computer system that determines which power company or which specific plant needs to turn on or ramp up, or do y’all just jockey to fill the need first so your company gets paid?
Everything is organized at a high level depending on the state/municipality. I’m currently in a very large hospital plant but we are also considered a utility. So, we generate 95% of the hospitals electricity day to day. We could generate 100% but we want to stay tied to the utility. So, sometimes on high demand days we get called on to produce as much as possible and feed back to the grid. The money generated by that feeding goes back into the hospital’s bank account. At some plants operators and engineers get FAT bonuses based on total generation.
That’s pretty neat! Is there a central computer system that determines which power company or which specific plant needs to turn on or ramp up, or do y’all just jockey to fill the need first so your company gets paid?
Everything is organized at a high level depending on the state/municipality. I’m currently in a very large hospital plant but we are also considered a utility. So, we generate 95% of the hospitals electricity day to day. We could generate 100% but we want to stay tied to the utility. So, sometimes on high demand days we get called on to produce as much as possible and feed back to the grid. The money generated by that feeding goes back into the hospital’s bank account. At some plants operators and engineers get FAT bonuses based on total generation.
That’s interesting! Thank you.