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Our Custom Technology
In addition to traditional conservation measures, ECO offers a suite of custom power treatment technologies to help clients increase electrical efficiency. These technologies are custom designed and provided through ECO’s affiliation with Energy Automation Systems, Inc. (EASI). With these custom technologies, ECO achieves improved efficiency in electricity usage in existing facilities by installing power treatment technologies to the individual loads in a facility, and, where needed, installing passive or active power quality correction at individual loads, individual branch circuits or the master service entrance. For more EASI information, visit: www.EnergyAutomation.com.
Guaranteed Savings: For every project using EASI technologies, all savings projections are 100% guaranteed through the payback period (plus 6 months). This means the money you spend will be returned through energy cost savings within the projected payback period.
As an EASI affiliate, ECO can generate significant cost savings for its clients by using power treatment technologies. Power treatment technologies are based on the following concepts: Lighting Correction, Wiring and Distribution Capacity, Power Factor Correction and Line Loss and Voltage Drop.
Lighting Correction
Today, achieving greater lighting efficiencies comes 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 HIDs are maximally efficient when connected to standard; ECO offers an entire line of special purpose waveform modification based lighting controllers that:
- Reduce total energy consumed by these lighting fixtures, yet can achieve significant operating cost savings
- Maintain visible spectrum light output, preserving the quality of light.
- 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
The practice of wiring a facility to meet the National Electrical Code (NEC) and being confident that the system will operate at acceptable efficiency is expensively misguided. The National Electrical Code was written by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and designs electrical systems to prevent fires. As a result, not a single element of the NEC has been developed as a standard against which efficiency can be judged or calculated. Consequently, due to the practice of designing a system to be lightly loaded and cool operating, to avoid fires (which is very important!), the typical facility electrical infrastructure is not designed for efficiency. Thus, many systems are in need of serious remedial efforts to correct inefficient use of electrical current and poor distortion values. Untreated, these values contribute to higher electrical costs and higher costs from equipment replacement, repair and down time.
Power Factor Correction
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 through electric consumption reducing and cost savings, reduced down time and maintenance and savings from improved 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.
