Shipboard Electrical Energy Management System

Upgrading the war-fighting capability of the surface fleet appears to increase electrical load at nearly 2 percent per year. The CV 67 designed generating reserve is nearly consumed now, and could become insufficient in the near future. Adding capacity to the ship now, to meet expanding load demands, can significantly affect cost and readiness. Foster-Miller proposes to make more efficient use of the existing generation capacity, provide an estimated power saving of as much as 20 percent and allow addition of an additional generator to be delayed by improving the individual power equipment efficiency with energy conservation devices and improving overall power system efficiency with a ship-wide power monitoring and advisory system. Foster-Miller's commercialized noninvasive power monitoring system coupled with COTS energy conservation devices provides a solution that can be implemented by ShipAlt/MachAlt procedures. Foster Miller's innovative power system technologies research and JJMA's shipboard system design experience put this team in a unique position to provide a Shipboard Electrical Energy Management System (SEEMS) that can economically resolve the power shortage problem in the CV-67 and be applicable other legacy ships. A study of adding a generator vs. implementing a SEEMS will be performed as part of this SBIR. (P-040100)