EcoStruxure™ Power Monitoring Expert ensures reliable and continuous electricity supply for critical Air Force Base.
The power management needs of Edwards Air Force Base are not ordinary. Located in the Mojave Desert, the massive campus covers 301,000 acres, or roughly 470 square miles. It’s also home to multiple high-level testing and research facilities including the NASA-Dryden Flight Research Center that supports Space Shuttle operations and the Air Force Flight Test Center, which has played a vital role in virtually every aircraft to enter the Air Force inventory since World War II. Reducing Consumption through Better Power Management Electric utility bills on this massive compound average about $20 million per year. High security requirements, frequent hurricane-level winds, torrential rains, aging infrastructure, and government-imposed energy reduction mandates all present a unique set of power management challenges. Edwards Air Force Base’s facility managers needed a more robust power monitoring system to address these challenges and called on Schneider Electric for solutions. Edwards rece...