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Quality of Power in the Industrial Sector
Abstract
Industries have added sensitive electrical
loads such as computers and electronic equipment to
improve efficiency, lower costs and to raise the
overall quality of the product being manufactured.
With this new technology there is a requirement for
a quality of power that has not been available by
the electric utility. Sensitive loads cannot tolerate
electrical disturbances such as harmonic distortions,
overvoltage, undervoltage, momentary
interruptions and transients that are inherent in
the utility distribution system.
The industrial customer turns to the power
supplier to provide technical support, monitoring
and assistance to upgrade the quality of power into
the plant. Even though studies have shown only 20%
of the problems identified are actually utility
generated it is the responsibility of the utility
to help the customer isolate and solve the problem.
The motto of the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Quality
of Power program is "If a customer perceives he has
a problem, we have a problem." The commitment has
been made to assist the customer until he is satisfied
the problem is in fact solved.
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Citation
Marchbanks, G. J. (1987). Quality of Power in the Industrial Sector. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92854.