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Pharmaceutical giant Roche Bioscience manages California energy crisis with Vykon Energy Suite
About Roche Bioscience
- One of five global Roche research sites
- 1000 people employed in Palo Alto
- Discovery and early clinical development of innovative medicines to treat diseases affecting people worldwide
Roche Bioscience requirements
- System enabling instantaneous response to Independent System Operator (ISO) load reduction requests
- Mechanism to measure and verify energy usage and reductions
- Internet access to critical energy information
- Integration of multiple metering and automation systems including Invensys and Trane via BACnet
Vykon energy solutions
- Integration platform to integrate legacy systems, BACnet, and meters
- Real-time control from any onsite web browser
- Automated demand response sequences
Benefits to Roche
- System assists Roche in ability to shed 1.5 MW load within 30 minutes notice
- Sophisticated measurement and verification tools to use in financial settlement
- Possibility of project expansion due to flexibility of Niagara Framework
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