Voltage Optimisation

Many businesses waste energy without even realising it. Imagine a small pan of water on a large hob with the heat turned up full. Any heat with is not directly hitting the base of the pan is simply disappearing into thin air - wasted.

It's the same with your electricity supply. By default it runs at too high a level, just because that's the way the distribution system works in the UK. Voltage optimisation is about reducing your supply to the optimum level - and getting it right can save your business significant amount of money and energy as well as reducing your carbon footprint.

THE BASICS

If explained in its most basic form, voltage optimisation is a means of saving energy by delivering the optimum supply voltage to a site's equipment. The aim is to reduce energy consumption while maintaining performance of site equipment ensuring that the remote end of a distribution feeder remains within limits. Considering the UK market, it must be highlighted that most of the equipment imported from continental Europe is designed to work at a voltage level lower than the nominal 415 volts. Such equipment is therefore forced to function with a voltage 10 or 20 volts high than that for which it was designed.

THE BENEFITS

Voltage optimisation technology gives the end-user the ability to optimise their supply locally. In the UK and Europe, voltage optimisation units fitted have achieved average energy savings of around 13% over the last five years, making this one of the fastest-growing energy saving techniques on the market.

Major businesses (including Tesco, ASDA, RBS and Hilton Hotels, and Public Sector organisations such as DEFRA and the Land Registry) have adopted Voltage Optimisation as a front-line energy saving measure.

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

An optimised supply voltage can help you to save money and energy and prolong your equipment life. Amongst other things, it helps to:

Reduce your CO2 emissions

Reduce your impact on the environment

Reduce your total energy consumption
Maintain your CRC commitment

Reduce losses in electrical loads, which are present due to over-voltage

Reduce your electricity bills

Reduce maintenance and increase the lifespan of electrical equipment caused by inherently high supply voltage