Client-Based Solutions for Optimal Plant Performance

Q: How do Dominion and Fluke contribute to providing Mexico a clean, safe and reliable energy supply?
A: Mexico’s ongoing transition process to a smart grid and Industry 4.0 are posing enormous challenges for companies across the value chain. The shift is new for most companies, even for Dominion, which made its EPC debut in Mexico with Chihuahua’s Kaixo project, a 65MW PV park. Long-term electricity auction winners, for instance, are pressured to verify the performance of their projects to ensure that power output pledges are met. The collaboration between Fluke and Dominion in Mexico means our customers can rely on getting innovative solutions and quality for their smart grid projects. What you cannot measure, you cannot control, which is why we provide measurement and verification solutions for the entire process, including generation, transmission, distribution and consumption. Fluke is a recognized US-based global leader in both portable and fixed energy measurement solutions. Dominion is a Spain-based company with 25 years of experience in tailor-made energy-efficient technological solutions. It has witnessed exponential growth over the last 20 years, with 8,000 professionals in its global workforce. Dominion also develops software solutions for optimal process management and recently launched its EPC division for PV projects in Mexico. Together with our Mexican team of 400 professionals, our 50 Fluke distributors and close to 1,500 qualified sales advisers, we help our Mexican customers to solve hundreds of on-site measurement challenges every day.
Q: How do Fluke and Dominion provide the best solutions for their clients’ most common problems?
A: With the dynamism of technological innovations the energy industry is witnessing, users expect immediate ROIs or a particular US$/MWh gain. Fluke and Dominion organize frequent seminars and information sessions with our clients’ plant or project managers to develop a 360-degree scope of the primary factors to consider and measure. This allows us to collaboratively design an optimal energy measurement plan, with the customer’s ROI at its center. This advisory service takes place early on to planning process in order to achieve the expected results.
Q: What regulatory advances have Dominion and Fluke witnessed across the energy industry?
A: CRE’s norm relating to the obligation of measuring the electric power factor produced, consumed, transmitted and distributed by companies across the value chain, NOM-EM-007-CRE-2017 published in February 2017, has been ignored by many local companies. This new norm includes a homogenous quality provision for the grid. Today CRE is being more proactive in its enforcement, with established fines and power plant inspectors measuring the committed power output.
Q: How does Dominion’s diversification to EPC services obey its business growth plan?
A: Our diversification grew organically from our metering core. In providing our clients specialized Fluke measurement and analysis solutions, we detected a series of energy consumption problems, which our clients wanted us to solve. It pushed us to develop an integral problem-solving platform, including EPC services to develop PV systems. The solidity of Fluke and both the flexibility and innovation of Dominion to meet client requirements, made this diversification possible.
Q: What new solutions are you looking to showcase in Mexico?
A: Fluke and Dominion are focused on the Industry 4.0 trend and on digitalization, wireless, real-time cloud-based data mining, data analysis, predictive maintenance and energy savings. In a word, optimization. Our Fluke Connect platform integrates all these concepts, added to our newly created Accelix plataform, designed to work as a connected reliability platform. It merges all digital data available, from portable metering devices to wireless sensors, through a powerful cloud-based analysis software, available at the tip of our client’s fingers (through a smartphone app), enabling effective, on-line asset management for optimal performance.