WHAT IS OUR AVERAGE INDUSTRIAL POWER WASTE?
THE AVERAGE FACTORY POWER WASTE IN THE U.S. IS 30%
THE AVERAGE FACTORY POWER WASTE FROM THD IS 12%
THAT IS A TOTAL AVERAGE OF 42%
Day after day, week in and out, year in and year out - over and over and over
But that is just the beginning. With the average Power Factor of .75, motor torque is half what it should be if PF were at full strength. Put another way, all plant motors are only supplying 50% of what they should be, even though they consume the same electricity they would if they were at full power. And with harmonic distortion (THD) average at about 10%, that is the majority cause of equipment breakdown such as ballast failure, motor burn out, contactor pitting and electronic failures.
THE AVERAGE EQUIPMENT LOSS THEREFORE ADDS ANOTHER 17%
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WORLD WIDE THE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL POWER LOSSES DUE TO POWER FACTOR, HARMONIC DISTORTION AND EQUIPMENT LOSS IS:
59% !
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY POWER LOSS IN THE AMERICAN HOME IS 23%!
The numbers shown above may be unbelievable, but yes, they are. . .accurate. Few organizations even know that. Even fewer believe that. Have your doubts? Here are some documents to support the facts. Take a look at a typical power bill showing Power Factor loss alone. There are several articles on power waste from several sources. All of them back up every word printed here. The real fact is that it is worse than we have published, but we can only prove this much. Your meter is turning and recording the current or Amps consumed. The formula for power is: Watts = Voltage X Amps. Typical PF is caused when current lags behind voltage. Therefore if your Power Factor is .75, that means you are 75% efficient and current (amps) is not together with your voltage. Put another way, you are not even using 25% of the power you pay for. Could it help if your power bill went down by a full 1/4th? Yet, from what we have shown here the real industrial electrical waste is actually close to 2/3 ‘s of our whole electrical power bill over time, and only slightly less than half of the monthly bill. Imagine the waste in power and money we are all paying over long periods.
Please understand, this is no exaggeration at all. Every word is the truth.
John Jackman, Electrical Engineer 801-272-1948 [email protected]
THE AVERAGE FACTORY POWER WASTE IN THE U.S. IS 30%
THE AVERAGE FACTORY POWER WASTE FROM THD IS 12%
THAT IS A TOTAL AVERAGE OF 42%
Day after day, week in and out, year in and year out - over and over and over
But that is just the beginning. With the average Power Factor of .75, motor torque is half what it should be if PF were at full strength. Put another way, all plant motors are only supplying 50% of what they should be, even though they consume the same electricity they would if they were at full power. And with harmonic distortion (THD) average at about 10%, that is the majority cause of equipment breakdown such as ballast failure, motor burn out, contactor pitting and electronic failures.
THE AVERAGE EQUIPMENT LOSS THEREFORE ADDS ANOTHER 17%
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WORLD WIDE THE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL POWER LOSSES DUE TO POWER FACTOR, HARMONIC DISTORTION AND EQUIPMENT LOSS IS:
59% !
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY POWER LOSS IN THE AMERICAN HOME IS 23%!
The numbers shown above may be unbelievable, but yes, they are. . .accurate. Few organizations even know that. Even fewer believe that. Have your doubts? Here are some documents to support the facts. Take a look at a typical power bill showing Power Factor loss alone. There are several articles on power waste from several sources. All of them back up every word printed here. The real fact is that it is worse than we have published, but we can only prove this much. Your meter is turning and recording the current or Amps consumed. The formula for power is: Watts = Voltage X Amps. Typical PF is caused when current lags behind voltage. Therefore if your Power Factor is .75, that means you are 75% efficient and current (amps) is not together with your voltage. Put another way, you are not even using 25% of the power you pay for. Could it help if your power bill went down by a full 1/4th? Yet, from what we have shown here the real industrial electrical waste is actually close to 2/3 ‘s of our whole electrical power bill over time, and only slightly less than half of the monthly bill. Imagine the waste in power and money we are all paying over long periods.
Please understand, this is no exaggeration at all. Every word is the truth.
John Jackman, Electrical Engineer 801-272-1948 [email protected]