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We have found that many individuals struggle to know how Power Factor influences demand charges. It is not clear to the inexperienced person when there are additional charges related to a bad power factor on the customer bill. This blog post might help you to walk through the power factor.

Power demand is increasing due to the ongoing steep rise in infrastructure projects across India. To meet the requirement of Infrastructure, the majority of Steel Plants and Cement Plants are going under expansion as well as new green field projects. It’s high time for a Power distribution network company to ensure good quality power to the industry. Power quality has major components like Reactive Power (Power Factor), Harmonics, and Voltage Unbalance.

How much electricity drawn by electronic devices is used for performing actual work, like heating up coils to toast bread in a toaster or running a water purifier to purify water by passing it through various filters, etc, is called Active/ Real Power (kW). But, in some cases, power is used not to yield some useful output but it is used up by the device itself. For example, ...
... in the electric motor (part of the booster pump) of a water purifier, some portion of the power drawn is utilized to set up a magnetic field, required for the operation of the motor. The end consumer sees this as no useful work from the outside, but electricity is still utilized. This is called Reactive Power (kVAR). A vector sum of Active and Reactive Power gives Apparent Power (kVA).

Power factor is simply the ratio of Real Power and Apparent Power and ranges between 0 and 1. Power factor is a way to determine how efficiently you are consuming your electrical power. A high-power factor shows effective consumption of electrical power however, a low-power factor shows inefficient use of electrical power. The device is very efficient if the power factor is close to 1.

Almost 18-19 states in India have imposed new regulations and started billing in kVAh in place of kWH. Hence now customers must pay for the reactive power they consume. In a process plant, the Power factor keeps on changing very dynamically considering various processes in the plant. Existing conventional solutions like HT Capacitors and APFC do not have dynamic performance resulting in frequent going into Lagging mode and Leading mode. It’s high time for all plants to maintain their True Power Factor at 0.99 or better at any load condition.

Yantra Harvest offers Solutions for Reactive Power Management using SVG. Yantra Harvest offers Solutions with Latest Technology i-PFC SVG. Making use of advanced controllability of 3- Phase 3-LevelIGBT based Voltage Source Inverter architecture, i-PFC SVG does precise Power Factor and Unbalance correction without the need for any passive power factor correction capacitors. Some of the Unique Key Features of our i-PFC are as follows.

 Step-less Bi-directional Reactive Power compensation
 Compatible with LT-HT side current sensing with all groups of Transformers
 HT side Power Factor correction from LT side CT sensing using smart-sense technology
 Near Unity Power Factor correction at all load conditions
 Faster Dynamic Response time (<100microseconds)
 Shortest Power Factor correction time (<20ms)
 Relatively maintenance free

If you are paying a penalty for poor power factor or Harmonics, Contact Yantra Harvest for the right in totality with Guaranteed Performance. Yantra Harvest is Grade-1 ESCO company approved by BEE since 2013 and our Guaranteed solution is based on the ESCO model without any CAPEX.

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