Complete Energy Solutions specializes in reducing electrical waste and increasing energy efficiency. We bring 40+ years of industrial/commercial production experience integrated with our time tested method for reducing your electrical consumption. Complete Energy Solutions offers your company the ability to maintain current operations while reducing your bottom-line costs.

With our testing equipment we are able to analyze Voltage, Amperes, Kilo-Watt Hours, Kilo-Watt Voltage Amps, KVAR, Power Factor and Harmonic Distortion on lines 1-3 simultaneously. With this proven data collection procedure we are able to create a clear and accurate electrical footprint of your facility showing how and where your energy is being used. By collecting data for a period of up to ten days we offer the advantage of being able to see the day to day fluctuations in electrical usage. i.e. maximum usage times, down times, and other variable consumption amounts. All of this results in the ability to pinpoint any and all of your facility's inefficiencies.

Our Industry-Leading Return on Investment gives you the competitive advantage by controlling your Bottom-line cost while maximizing your production needs.

Every business incurs profit infringing costs as they convert their "raw material" into a "finished product". Historically, curbing the drain from Labor, Materials, and Overhead was the effective method to increase profit. Efficient equipment was hard to find, when available, and upgrading existing equipment had a poor ROI. For many years this is how it was.

Consumers gained governmental energy guidance when the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) of 1975 established Federally-mandated energy-efficiency standards for specific household appliances. The U.S. Department of Energy has used well paid career orientated academics to research and develope the ever changing efficiency standards which affect our daily life. The effect these standards have had on buisness depends upon one's political viewpoint and academic diversity. As energy costs soared, the demand for energy efficient production equipment soared with them. With the help of governmental intervention through efficiency regulation business benefitted by achieving lowered energy consumption resulting in less profit drain.

Today business is faced with a new source of challenges in remaining profitable. While the issue of Global Warming is not new, its manifestations to business have been largely shielded by dulsional governmental policy and wishful thinking. Those times are over. Greatly rising costs and the forthcoming compliance through taxation shall bring energy consumption as a major challenge to profitablity.

Overvoltage refers to voltage higher than the voltage at which equipment is designed to operate most effectively. It causes a reduction in equipment lifetime and increases in energy consumed with no improvement in performance. The 16th edition of the Electricians Guide BS7671 makes the following statements in relation to overvoltage: "A 230V rated lamp used at 240 will achieve only 55% of its rated life" "A 230V linear appliance used on a 240V supply will take 4.3% more current and will consume almost 9% more energy." Various technologies can be used to avoid overvoltage, but it must be done so efficiently so that energy savings resulting from using the correct voltage are not offset by energy wasted in the device used to do so.

Harmonics are current and voltage waveforms at a higher frequency than the fundamental 50Hz main supply and occur at multiples of the fundamental. Harmonics are caused by non-linear loads, which include types of power supply for computer equipment, variable speed drives and many transformers. "Triplen" harmonics (odd multiples of the third harmonic) result when phase voltages are not balanced in a three phase power system and accumulate in the neutral, causing wasteful currents to flow. The possible effects if the level of harmonics, known as total harmonic distortion becomes too high include damage to sensitive electronic equipment and reduction in the efficiency of the HV transformer. The efficiency of electrical loads can be improved by attenuating harmonics at the supply, or by preventing their generation.

Transients are large, very brief and potentially destructive increases in voltage. Their causes include lightning strikes, switching of large electrical loads such as motors, transformers and electrical drives, and by switching between power generation sources to balance supply and demand. Although they typically only last thousandths or millionths of a second, transients can devastate sensitive electronic systems causing data loss, degrading equipment components and shortening equipment life.

Most medium to large industrial and commercial sites are supplied with 3-phase electricity, which is transmitted from the national grid in 120º phase intervals. Imbalance between the three phases causes problems somewhat similar to those of harmonics, for example heating in motors and existing wiring leading to wasteful energy consumption.

The power factor of an electrical supply is the ratio of the real power to the apparent power of the supply. It is the useful power used by the site divided by the total power that is drawn. The latter includes power that is unusable, so a power factor of 1 is desirable. A low power factor would mean that the electricity supplier would effectively supply more energy than the consumer’s bill would indicate, and suppliers are allowed to charge for low power factors. Reactive power is the name given to unusable power. It does no work in the electrical system, but is used to charge capacitors or produce a magnetic field around the field of an inductor. Reactive power needs to be generated and distributed through a circuit to provide sufficient real power to enable processes to run. Reactive power increases significantly with increasing voltage as the reactance of equipment increases. Correcting this with voltage optimisation will therefore lead to a reduction in reactive power and improvement in power factor.

A common misconception as far as voltage power optimisation is concerned is to assume that a reduction in voltage will result in an increase in current and therefore constant power. Whilst this is true for certain fixed-power loads, most sites have a diversity of loads that will benefit to a greater or lesser extent with energy savings aggregating across a site as a whole. The benefit to typical equipment at three phase sites is discussed below.

Three phase AC induction motors are probably the most common type of three phase load and are used in a variety of equipment including refrigeration, pumps, air conditioning, conveyer drives as well as their more obvious applications. The de-rating effects of overvoltage and three phase imbalance on AC motors are well known. Overvoltage results in saturation of the iron core, wasting energy through eddy currents and increased hysteresis losses. Drawing excessive current results in excess heat output due to copper losses. The additional stress of overvoltage on motors will decrease motor lifetime. Avoiding overvoltage does not affect the motor speed since this is a function of the supply frequency and the number of poles in the motor provided the motor is correctly loaded. Nor does it reduce the efficiency of the motor and so substantial energy savings can be made through reducing iron and copper losses. This is especially apparent if the motor application means that it experiences a variety of loading conditions since the motor efficiency is further reduced with both overvoltage and less than full loading.

Since lighting loads are in use for a high proportion of the time, energy savings on lighting equipment are extremely valuable. Incandescent lighting is particularly susceptible to wasting energy and decreased lifetimes at high voltages, as the previous extracts from the Electricians Guide illustrate. However, other types of lighting can also benefit from improved power quality, including systems with resistive or reactive ballasts. Fluorescent lighting is more efficient than incandescent lighting and there are also types of electronic voltage optimisation control systems for high-frequency lighting, which would not see an improvement in lifetime or energy consumption on the same level as incandescent lighting. However, lighting controllers and ballasts are responsible for generating high levels of harmonic distortion, which can be filtered with a voltage optimiser, in addition reducing the need for lighting controller. A common concern is that some lighting will fail to strike at lower voltages. However, this should not occur since the aim of voltage optimisation is not simply to reduce the voltage as far as possible, but to bring it to the voltage at which it was designed to operate most efficiently.

The energy savings achieved by voltage optimisation are an aggregation of the improved efficiency of all equipment across a site in response to the improvements in the power quality problems outlined above. It has been and continues to be a key technique for savings in energy consumption and consequently carbon dioxide emissions.