Power Factor Correction (PFC) History
Why Haven't I Heard of PowerwoRx Before?
The price of the fuel utilities use to generate electricity has been
historically low, now with rising costs and rising utility bills power savings make very good sense.
Who else uses this technology? |
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The electric utility does; without power factor correction it could cost the utility up to 40% more in fuel to generate
the power need for the grid. Most people can identify the round “cans” as transformers
on utility poles, but did you know that the square cans are for power factor correction? The impedance on the wires, transformers and customer’s motors cause reactive power loads to occur in the transmission lines. So the utility installs power factor correction every few miles along the line. Some are large banks like the one in the picture, two cans on each phase; some are smaller but all are sized for the voltage and line conditions. Without these the utility could not operate efficiently. |
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