The Power of Consistent Quality.

Power quality issues can mask themselves with a variety of symptoms in your facility causing you to spend more money, perform less work and reduce equipment life.

Power factor is a characteristic of alternating current (AC) circuits.

It is always a value between zero and one, with the higher number indicating a better power factor. Circuits containing motor loads, ballasts and personal computers usually have a power factor below one.

Many customers with poor power factor, (typically below .90), are seeing additional charges each month on their electric bill. When a customer has poor power factor, it increases the utility's generation and distribution costs. Low power factor can also put an extra burden on the customer's internal electric distribution system which can lead to equipment failure. So, even if a customer is not billed for low power factor, it often makes good economic sense to improve the power factor at a facility.

Now, through the ElectriCities ESP program, customers can receive help in finding the causes of low power factor and assistance in solving the reliability problems low power factor creates. Our reliability solutions partners bring a turn key approach to the problems caused by poor power factor. Through a thorough review of your facility and your electric rate, our team of experts can recommend and implement an action plan designed to help get your facility's electric distribution system running smoothly again and reducing costly power factor penalties.