A2B presents a solution for addressing reactive energy issues, with a focus on sustainability and cost-efficiency. Given the way energy charges are billed, it is advantageous to manage inductive reactive energy consumption so that the power factor (cos φ) exceeds 0.95; under these conditions, charges apply only to active energy (kWh), allowing for a significant reduction in energy costs.
Features of the active reactive energy compensator:
- Electronic compensation of reactive energy – capacitive and inductive
- It fulfills the role of a special active filter that eliminates the influence of the connected reactive load on the input network
- Unlike a passive compensator, it can dynamically adapt to the compensated load and generate a compensation current that effectively eliminates the reactive power component, bringing it close to zero—slightly overcompensating towards an inductive characteristic to rule out the impact of electricity meter measurement tolerances.
- Unlike that of a passive compensator, the power loss of an active compensator is negligible for the same degree of compensation.
- Compared to passive filters it takes much less space.