WHY INSTALL A POWER FACTOR CORRECTION SYSTEM?
There are many objectives to be pursued in the planning of an electrical system. In addition to safety and reliability, it is very important to ensure that electricity is properly used. Each circuit, each piece of equipment, must be designed so as to guarantee the maximum global efficiency in transforming the source of energy into work. Among the measures that enable electricity use to be optimized, improving the power factor of electrical systems is undoubtedly one of the most important. If we quantify this aspect from the utility company’s point of view, raising the average operating power factor of the network from 0.7 to 0.9 means: • cutting costs due to ohmic losses in the network by 40% • increasing the potential of production and distribution plants by 30%. These figures speak for themselves: it means saving hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel and making several power plants and hundreds of transformer rooms available. Thus in the case of low power factors utility companies ch
