Manufacturing

Manufacturing plants – and plant expansions – can stretch the power grid to its limits. Manufacturing plants generally have multiple processes going on concurrently. These processes may impact all three power phases the same way, like stamping and pressing facilities, or the impacts can vary widely between phases like, like welding and foundry operations.

Either ways, when customers encounter special situations that can stress grid stability, dynamic reactive VAR compensation, especially SVCs, are uniquely suited to ensure adequate power to the facility while insulating the power grid from plant operations:

  • SVCs are applied at the power delivery point or on a main plant bus. The SVC measures and adjusts for the cumulative effect of downstream plant operations. One device, one control point.
  • SVCs are equally effective with balanced, 3-phase impacts and with unbalanced impacts. No moving parts equals no mechanical wear-and-tear.
  • SVCs are designed for continuous operation, built-in self-diagnostics and the capability for quick reconfiguration at reduced capacity in event of equipment failures.