Power Quality Solutions

Power quality is essential for maintaining reliable and efficient business operations. Stable and consistent electricity—measured by voltage, frequency, and waveform—prevents disruptions, optimizes performance, and minimizes energy waste. By prioritizing power quality, businesses can achieve smoother operations and improved energy efficiency.

Why is Power Quality Important?

Electricity demand is rapidly increasing, stressing our aging grid as well as our building systems. Being pro-active now can prevent surprise disruptions and system failures. Unstable power can cause equipment malfunctions, increase energy costs, and lead to unexpected downtime. Reliable power reduces risks, cuts costs, and keeps operations running smoothly.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) explains power resilience as:
“The ability to withstand and recover quickly from disruptive events.”

How We Help

We start by creating accurate facility line diagrams to understand loads, circuit paths, and ratings—essential for effective power management. Changes often occur in our facilities – equipment is added, what is obsolete is replaced, spaces are re-purposed and ad hoc maintenance is performed. Over time we can lose track of all of these changes, and our documentation may become incomplete and even wrong. Once we have your line diagrams up to date, we can start our power quality assessment.

Our services include:

Event Capture: We monitor and record issues like power surges, voltage drops (sags), transient spikes and momentary interruptions with high-precision equipment.
Voltage Monitoring: We ensure your voltage stays within safe and reliable levels using industry-certified tools.
Reliability Indices: We can calculate key performance indicators (such as EN50160, CBEMA and SEMI F47) to evaluate how reliable your system is and where it can improve.
System Analysis: We measure critical factors like harmonics (distorted waveforms), voltage flicker (visible fluctuations in lighting), and power factor (the relationship between voltage and current, which determines the efficiency of power use) to improve performance.
Compliance Reporting: We create reports that show whether your power system meets regulatory standards, ensuring confidence in compliance.
Permanent Monitoring Solutions: We recommend and supply the correct meters for permanent installation at your facility to enable continuous power quality analysis and long-term system optimization.

We offer multiple options for advanced meters to analyze electrical demand and power quality in your facility. These can include short term studies of individual circuits or electrical panels using portable power quality meters, or permanent installation of single or multi-circuit submetering, combined energy plus power quality meters, with options for data logging, BMS integration, and real-time reporting. We also offer consulting services to help you leverage the abilities of these meters with ASHRAE Level 1, 2 and 3 Energy Audits and engineering analysis of the many types of data which are being collected.

Our team uses this data to recommend tailored solutions that optimize power quality, enhance reliability, and reduce energy costs.

How Protective Relays Help with Power Quality

Big Shine Energy collaborates with leading protective relay manufacturers to design solutions that address your power quality challenges. Protective relays are key to maintaining a stable and reliable power supply.

Key Benefits of Protective Relays

Fault Detection and Isolation: Relays identify issues like short circuits or overloads and isolate the affected part of the system, preventing widespread disruptions such as voltage sags or outages.
Voltage Regulation: Advanced relays monitor and maintain voltage levels, addressing dips or surges to ensure consistent power quality.
Harmonic Filtering: Certain relays help identify and mitigate harmonics—distortions in the electrical waveform that can affect equipment performance.
Improved Reliability: By clearing faults quickly and protecting the system, relays ensure a stable, high-quality power supply essential for efficient operations.

We work with you to identify the best relay solutions for your facility, ensuring your power systems remain reliable and efficient.

Electrical Walkthroughs

Our electrical walkthroughs identify improvements that enhance safety, performance, and efficiency.

What We Do

Detailed Inspections: Our team uses advanced tools, such as thermal cameras, power analyzers, and data loggers, to find inefficiencies and potential hazards.
Clear Recommendations: Based on our findings, we suggest upgrades, repairs, or replacements to optimize your electrical system.

Power Factor Correction

Power Factor measures how efficiently your electrical system uses power. A poor Power Factor can lead to higher energy costs and inefficiencies. Most utilities add a penalty charge to your monthly bill if you have a low Power Factor, and this also increases consumption because the inefficient operation of your equipment turns costly electricity into waste heat, day after day.

How We Correct Power Factor

Power Factor Correction Capacitors: Balance power usage and reduce waste.
Synchronous Condensers: Stabilize power flow dynamically.
Active Power Factor Correction: Advanced systems adjust for varying loads in real-time.

Why It Matters

Lower Energy Costs: Reduce the apparent power you draw, lowering utility bills.
Increased System Capacity: Handle more equipment without costly upgrades.

Reduced Losses: Improve efficiency and extend the lifespan of your equipment.

Surge Protection Devices

Power surges can harm sensitive equipment and interrupt critical operations. Our partners provide surge protection devices (SPDs) designed to safeguard AC power systems worldwide, from 120 VAC to 600 VAC, with both primary and secondary protection circuits. Available in Type 1, Type 2, and Type 4 configurations, these SPDs offer comprehensive protection.

Our Approach to System Protection

Tailored Recommendations: We help you choose the ideal surge protection devices to meet your specific requirements.
Expert Installation: Our team ensures precise installation to maximize the performance and reliability of your SPDs.