Sunday, September 1, 2013

Application 9: Reliability and Power Quality

Companies that employee sophisticated, sensitive, digital equipment or those engaged in continuous process manufacturing can be severely impacted by power outages and incidents of reduced power quality. “Across all business sectors, the U.S. economy is losing between $104 billion and $164 billion a year to outages and another $15 billion to $24 billion to PQ (power quality) phenomena” (Lineweber & McNulty, 2001). In the same way that large scale energy storage can help a utility avoid power outages and degradations to power quality, end users can ride through outages and maintain power quality by employing energy storage on a smaller, more distributed scale. The investment in energy storage can be largely offset by reducing or eliminating lost productivity or equipment damage caused by these power quality events (Baxter, 2012)

Works Cited

Baxter, R. (2012, November 28). Author, Energy Storage; a Nontechnical Guide. (M. Banta, Interviewer)


Lineweber, D., & McNulty, S. (2001). The Cost of Power Disturbances to Industrial & Digital Economy Companies. Madison, WI: EPRI.

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