Utility Impact
Understanding Utility Power
In most markets around the United States public utilities express their billing units as Kilowatts (KW) for energy demand charges and Kilowatt Hours (KWH) for energy consumed for commercial and industrial users. In addition, in many instances public utilities will bill the commercial and industrial users penalties for low Power Factor (PF) when they fall below prescribed levels and/or for Reactive Power (KVAr) when “non-working” power has to be made up by the utility due to inefficiency in the customer’s load. The billing process and the weighting of the various billing attributes of KW, KWH, PF and KVAr are charged in different ways by every public utility in the United States. Savings on a utility bill for the customer from energy conservation or installation of power quality equipment is dependent on many factors including the customer location (public utility), attached load or loads (electrical system), age and use of the facility (installed equipment), other installed energy improvement devices or measures, billing practices of the public utility, KVAr or Power Factor penalties or other agreements in place between the public utility and the customer.
In any electrical network where MPTS device is installed:
- MPTS mitigates harmonics, cleans and recycles dirty power.
- It is a renewable energy device within the building that releases capacity and decreases both electric demand and consumption.
Benefits to the Utility
- Decrease in total energy demand by users
- Reduction in total electrical energy supplied
- Reduces line current & power transmission losses (I²R losses)
- Improves utility of installed equipment / switchgear/ cable to maximum capacity
- Decreases eddy current heat generation/loss in Transformers
- Reduces distribution, transmission, operations & maintenance costs
- Assists in relieving peak demand power outages