Distribution system optimisation

An Eltec Energy Power Monitoring system will enable you to know exactly how much power you are using throughout the facility both in real time and historically. This is a necessary requirement for determining what available capacity you have at any main or distribution board in the facility.

This will enable you to

• Design additions or extensions to the system using actual usage patterns and load profiles to allow you to confidently proceed with your projects
• Avoid costly Load investigations to achieve this.
• Monitor your load to ensure that your system is properly balanced to comply with local requirements. Correct load balancing is also important as poor load balancing can result in an increase of current in the neutral conductor.
• Determine what effect the weather has on your demand by feeding such data as temperature and humidity into the monitoring system.
• Monitor the complete Site for harmonic distortion and power factor as these two conditions if not optimised contribute to heating of cable runs which will impact on your energy costs.
• Using historical and real time data get early warnings of possible equipment issues by flagging and alarming any out of the ordinary behaviour in the supplies to this equipment. In the case of Electric
• Motors the major cause of failure is typically Single phasing or Voltage unbalance, possibly allowing you to detect this issue before the damage is done.