Whitepaper: When power quality matters

Businesses and utilities across Australia depend on an efficient and reliable power source, but effective operations for critical infrastructure and complex facilities depend on electricity that is high quality, consistent and compliant with regulatory standards.

Power quality and surge protection underpin the stable and reliable energy access that keeps equipment operating. A supply network can be afflicted by any number of problems that potentially disrupt profit, business operation and quality of life through loss of production, reduced safety and damage to equipment. 

Proper power protection ensures manufacturers, complex facilities alike and other power-dependent organisations can prevent equipment failure and minimise maintenance to ensure operational continuity. Businesses should understand that solving issues with solutions such as harmonic mitigation and surge protection are a cost saving and not a cost: an investment that directly addresses the real but invisible costs being imposed by these problems.

And they don’t need a superpower to come up with a solution. The famed 19th century physicist and engineer Lord Kelvin had a maxim that defined his work: “to measure is to know.” 

This creed remains as true for electrical energy operations in the 21st century as it was in Lord Kelvin’s day. Businesses dependent on high-quality power supply are likely already experiencing real costs due to disruption and inefficiencies, and the first step towards solving these problems is to identify them – to measure them. 

As a distributor and service provider with the purpose of helping to build a future where sustainable electrical infrastructure creates a better life for all, IPD can help organisations diagnose and address the challenges facing the quality of their power supply. 

Each individual site of business operation has different requirements but, depending on the particular challenges facing an electricity network, a variety of solutions exist that can be tailored to individual needs. 

A new white paper from IPD explores:

• When power quality matters: Disruptions can result in lost time, product, profit or even put lives in danger.
• Why power quality is an ongoing concern: Even well-established sites have a profile that changes over time and can benefit from new diagnostics, refinements and improvements. 
• The risks arising from a disruption to power supply: Disruption can come in many forms, with the electrical supply network being affected by such factors as voltage dips and swells, harmonic distortion, flicker, surges, transients and continuity of service.
• Solutions and case studies: IPD can help analyse a business’s problems, then advise potential solutions.