Power Generation & Utilities Automation
Reliable monitoring, SCADA, telemetry, instrumentation, and control-system support for critical utility infrastructure.
Britton Electronics & Automation, Inc. designs, builds, programs, and supports automation systems for power-generation and utility facilities throughout Illinois and the Midwest. BEA is also a registered Program Ally of the Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program.
Critical infrastructure requires dependable control, accurate information, clear alarm response, and long-term support. BEA develops practical systems that help operators monitor generation equipment, utility processes, substations, and distributed assets from coordinated control platforms.
Generation & Balance-of-Plant Control
Generation facilities depend on coordinated monitoring and control of generators, turbines, cooling equipment, fuel systems, pumps, fans, auxiliary systems, and electrical distribution equipment. BEA develops PLC, HMI, and SCADA systems that give operators clear visibility into these interconnected systems.
Equipment permissives, startup sequences, operating modes, process limits, controlled shutdowns, alarm handling, and historical information can be incorporated into one operator-focused control platform.
Generator status, output, temperatures, pressures, auxiliary systems, equipment conditions, and operating modes.
Pumps, fans, cooling systems, fuel handling, process equipment, utility systems, and coordinated sequencing.
Operator screens, process trends, alarm history, equipment status, reports, diagnostics, and remote support.
Highlights: Generation equipment • Auxiliary systems • Cooling systems • Process sequencing • Alarm history • Remote diagnostics
Substations, Remote Sites & Utility Telemetry
Utility systems often include substations, pumping sites, distribution equipment, metering points, and other infrastructure spread across a wide geographic area. BEA integrates remote sites into centralized monitoring and control systems using radio, cellular, Ethernet, and other communication methods.
Site status, communications health, equipment conditions, measurements, alarms, and historical values can be collected and presented through a consistent SCADA interface.
Equipment status, measurements, site alarms, communications health, environmental conditions, and remote diagnostics.
Radio telemetry, cellular systems, Ethernet networks, path surveys, signal analysis, and communications monitoring.
Consistent site displays, alarm routing, trends, event history, reports, user access, and system diagnostics.
Highlights: Substations • Distributed assets • Radio telemetry • Cellular communications • Remote alarms • Centralized SCADA
Utility Process Instrumentation & Alarm Management
Reliable utility operation depends on accurate measurements and timely awareness of abnormal conditions. BEA integrates flow, pressure, level, temperature, vibration, electrical values, and other process instrumentation into plant and remote-site control systems.
Alarm priorities, event history, acknowledgment, escalation, after-hours notification, and operator guidance can be configured around the facility's actual response procedures.
Flow, pressure, level, temperature, vibration, electrical measurements, calibration, and instrument diagnostics.
Priority-based alarms, acknowledgment, escalation, alarm history, process limits, and operator response information.
Callout systems, remote alerts, communication-failure alarms, notification schedules, and response escalation.
Highlights: Process measurements • Instrument calibration • Alarm priorities • Event history • Remote notification • Operator response
Energy Efficiency, Demand & Operational Data
Energy and operating data can help facilities identify inefficient equipment operation, excessive runtimes, demand peaks, and opportunities for control-system improvements. BEA integrates meters, drives, equipment status, process values, and historical information into usable dashboards and reports.
As a registered Program Ally of the Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program, BEA can support automation and control projects associated with applicable energy-efficiency initiatives.
Electrical values, demand, energy use, operating periods, equipment status, and historical consumption trends.
Runtime balancing, VFD control, scheduling, setpoint review, operating-mode improvements, and sequence optimization.
Baseline data, historical comparisons, runtime reports, demand trends, operating summaries, and project-support information.
Highlights: Energy data • Demand monitoring • Equipment runtimes • VFD optimization • Historical comparisons • Efficiency initiatives
Modernization, Control Panels & Long-Term Support
Utility facilities often depend on equipment and control systems that must remain operational for many years. BEA can integrate existing systems, replace obsolete automation components, and complete phased modernization projects while reducing disruption to critical operations.
Connect existing PLCs, instruments, packaged systems, communication networks, and remote equipment.
Custom control panels, component selection, layouts, wiring, documentation, testing, and field installation.
I/O checks, loop testing, sequence verification, instrument calibration, startup support, and operator training.
Rapid diagnostics, PLC and SCADA support, communications troubleshooting, remote access, and critical-service response.
Highlights: Legacy controls • PLC modernization • Control panels • Field commissioning • Remote diagnostics • Emergency support
Ready to improve your power-generation or utility control system?
From generation monitoring and remote-site telemetry to SCADA modernization and emergency troubleshooting, BEA can design, program, commission, and support the systems your facility depends on.