What is Power Factor?

Why Should We Improve Power Factor?

How do you Improve Power Factor?

How Demand Billing Works

Effects of Motor Unbalance on Motor Performance

Guidelines for Motor Surge Protection

Line/Load Reactor Applications

Published Articles & Presentations

A Word of Caution (Single-Conductor Cables Can Act As Harmonic Distortion From Non-Linear Loads) - Electrical Business Vol. XXXII No.2, February, 1997

What You Don't Know May Hurt You ("start logging your problems", advises this specialist) - Electrical Business Vol. XXX No.9, September, 1994

Power Quality and the Office Building - Energy Manager Magazine, March 1997

Power Quality - Presentation for Energy Management Conference, October 2007

Get The Measure of Your Enemy (if you have harmonics you should be able to measure it) - Electrical Business Magazine

Downloadable PDFs - (right click and select "Save As" to download or click on link to open in new window)

Facts About Power Factor Correction (482kB)

Delta Connected Capacitors Versus Wye Connected Capacitors (683kB)

Energy Management Series:

Harmonics (465kB)

Power Factor (979kB)