Our Approach To achieve electrical efficiency in existing facilities, we install power treatment technologies to the individual loads and where needed, passive or active power quality correction at either individual loads, individual branch circuits or the master service entrance. The electricity savings from power treatment technologies originate from these concepts:
LIGHTING CORRECTION: Today, the trend of achieving greater lighting efficiencies have come in the form of fluorescent and HID lighting. Though this lighting is more efficient than incandescent lighting, it is also true that neither fluorescent nor HID's are maximally efficient when connected to standard, sinusoidal waveform AC power. We have developed an entire line of special purpose waveform modification based lighting controllers that significantly reduce total energy consumed by these lighting fixtures, yet can achieve significant operating cost savings without reducing visible spectrum light output. Secondly, all of our lighting controller technologies have been designed to suppress or trap broadband harmonic content from the load side of the device, therefore adding to the systems cascade effect of both improved overall efficiency and improved overall facility power quality.
WIRING AND DISTRIBUTION CAPACITY: Your facility may meet all National Electrical Code (NEC) regulations, however, this does not guarantee an efficient facility. The NEC, written by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) writes electrical codes to ensure electrical systems are designed to be safe from causing fires. Energy Innovators goes beyond the basic NEC regulations by custom designing an energy efficient project that decreases heat, current and distortion values which in turn, makes your facility safer. By correcting these values we decrease your electrical costs, cut down on your equipment repair, and reduce replacement and down time.
POWER FACTOR CORRECTION: We have found that the careful application of properly sized (by VAR) capacitive devices in very close proximity to inductive loads clearly meets the 'two benefit' standard of generating direct and indirect savings. While such an approach requires specifically creating an exactly matched capacitor network for every single treated load in a facility, it more than pays for the effort in quick payback by reducing consumption, down time, maintenance and improving power quality.
LINE LOSS AND VOLTAGE DROP: Real line losses and voltage drops in commercial and industrial facilities far exceed the amounts and effects determined by classroom theories. Unlike these traditional calculation methods, which only consider isolated loads and circuits, real voltage drops in real facilities have wide ranging effects on the voltage and current values in the entire facility.