The New Year brings a fresh opportunity for your business to gear up for success. This year, set your sights on a crucial investment – power quality. Ensuring clean, reliable power is one of the smartest resolutions you can make for your energy intensive, sensitive or critical operation in 2025. Here’s why.
Power quality is critical for optimising performance, reducing costs, and safeguarding your investments in equipment and infrastructure. Poor power quality can cause equipment malfunctions, premature failures, and unscheduled downtime. It can even lead to higher energy bills and carbon emissions. The solution? A robust power quality management strategy tailored to your business needs.
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At Hexeis, we believe there are five key pillars to help your business improve and sustain power quality. Let’s dive in.
They say you can’t manage what you can’t measure—and power quality is no exception. Installing strategic power quality meters across your facility allows you to track metrics such as voltage fluctuations, frequency variations, and harmonic distortions. These devices also log events like voltage sags, swells, and transients, providing actionable data to enhance system performance. With power quality meters you gain a clear view of your electrical system from incomers to site extremities.
2. Correct Power Factor
With insights from power quality monitoring, optimising your power factor becomes straightforward. A poor power factor can lead to utility penalties, wasted energy, and increased operational costs. By implementing solutions like capacitor banks or power factor correction units, you can maximise power usage, reduce transformer losses, and lower CO2 emissions—all while eliminating unnecessary costs.
3. Mitigate Harmonics
Harmonic distortions are sneaky disruptors of efficiency and reliability. Using tools like active filters and voltage regulators, you can reduce harmonics and balance loads. The result? Enhanced equipment efficiency, fewer outages, and longer lifespans for your electrical assets. It’s all about cutting operational costs while boosting performance.
4. Regulate Voltage
Voltage deviations can lead to data loss, equipment failures, and costly downtime. By harnessing Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) technology, your business can actively monitor and correct voltage dips, sags, and swells to maintain stable power flow. This minimises disruptions and keeps your operations running smoothly.
5. Manage and Optimise Energy
Hexeis’ Sustainable Energy Asset Management System is your all-in-one solution for monitoring, analysing, and managing your power network in real time. With intuitive tools, alerts, and network diagrams, the system simplifies energy management and decision-making. Reduce energy costs, improve reliability, and achieve your sustainability goals with ease.
Power Quality: It’s your smart strategic investment for 2025
The start of a new year is the perfect time to assess your power quality strategy. By investing in your sites power quality pillars, you’ll benefit from fewer unplanned outages, improved equipment performance, and lower energy costs. Even better, your business will be kicking its sustainability targets.
For more information about power quality, including how Hexeis can help tailor a solution for your business, contact our team today.
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