How audits help optimize your electrical system | Schneider Electric
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Purpose: A Power Quality Audit is a comprehensive examination of your facility's electrical system. Its goal is to pinpoint and address any elements that may be affecting the quality and efficiency of your electrical power. The first critical step in the audit is the installation of a Power Quality (PQ) Meter.
The PQ audit is broken down into six steps, with detailed descriptions of how to complete each one. This overview of PQ auditing includes highlights of the two most common types of power quality audits: reactive and proactive.
The auditors should discuss changes to and configurations of the power system with the local utility. If the utility is not part of the audit team, then the equipment owner is responsible for establishing a utility contact for the auditors. Changes that could affect the quality of power include:
The final report resulting from a power quality audit conveys all findings and rec-ommendations for the audit. The report might be formal, informal, printed, electron-ic, in the form of a presentation, or all of the above. The point of this section is to discuss how to present findings and recommenda-tions to the equipment owner.
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