Underneath the radar

Reducing electricity costs in the current climate is a high priority for many organisations. The low-hanging fruit of negotiating better tariffs, and obvious energy saving measures such as high efficiency lighting, movement detectors and insulation is therefore assumed to have already been taken care of.

In this third article in the series on managing electricity costs, hardware solutions get a guernsey. These usually fly under the radar of general business management, being the province of technical publications, but there’s every reason to understand their significant saving potentials.

Return on investment (ROI) is a guiding measure in the evaluation of available savings. We look at switchboard monitoring, harmonic reduction and power factor control. The latter was examined in an earlier article, but the technology deserves more attention.

You do not need a background in electrical