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At Iskhus we understand that power is fundamental to business. We know that business requires the highest power quality, at the best price, and at the highest level of efficiency., whilst using less energy with improving output. The reduction in emissions is assisting in the conservation of our planet.   The biggest corporations in Southern Africa have relied on our advice, technology and proficiency to implement to meet their diverse and complex energy saving needs. 

Our core business is saving energy for our clients. What is Energy Efficiency? Simply, Energy Efficiency is using less energy to provide the same level of energy service. Making homes, vehicles, and businesses more energy efficient is seen as a largely untapped solution to addressing the problems of pollution, global warming, energy security, and fossil fuel depletion. 

The idea of meeting energy needs by increasing efficiency instead of increasing energy production. At Iskhus Power we break down the energy sector into onsite energy efficiency, onsite renewable energy, offsite renewable efficiency and Water.

Onsite Energy Efficiency is the reduction of fossil fuels utilizing technology such as installing Power Quality, doing retrofits, load management and providing energy information through management systems at the physical site .


We can save you money, improve perfomance and help the environment. Our solutions are:

How?

1. Power Quality

Under Power Quality Iskhus Power offers a range of technologies

They are:

  • Powerfactor Correction

  • Harmonic Filters

  • Voltage Stabilisers

  • Powerfix

What is Powerfactor Correction?

Power factor equipment is primarily a tool to reduce the reactive energy component of a customer energy usage and thus reduce his demand cost significantly. It is notably a robust technology and if done incorrectly can cause significant damage to customer end use electricity equipment.

 

 

Savings

  • Direct electricity savings from 8% to 20%.

  • Indirect maintenance cost savings on all electrical equipment.

Improvements

  • Protection against surges and transients

  • Reduction of heat

  • Stabilises and balances voltage

  • Reduces current

  • Improves power factor

  • 3 Phase balancing

  • Reduces KVA and kWh

Benefits

  • Less replacement of lamps.

  • Reduced maintenance on equipment (Fridges, Aircon, VSD’s).

  • Reduced motor and compressor shaft vibration resulting in increased bearing and motor lifetime.

  • Increased lifespan of power supplies and UPS’s.

  • Protection to computers and electronic systems.

2. Retrofits

What are retrofits?

What are the advantages of retrofitting?

3. Information System

What is Energy  Information Systems?

Energy is a major and growing expense in any business no matter what the size.  One of the biggest challenges related to energy management is to obtain more meaningful information in order to help companies to take the correct decisions and allocate that cost correctly.

Iskhus Power as part of our solutions  is offering an innovative energy information system   that allows a customer to obtain additional information with regards  to  his energy usage  facilitating matching energy demand and consumption to the activities, production and cost incurred closer to time then expense  was incurred.

 

What are the advantages of Information Systems?

The major advantages of the system are:

  • Offer information to check your utility bill – manage of utility bill
  • Obtain weekly energy usage reports
  • Allocate Electricity costs to core businesses
  • Account for expense at the end of the month, before receiving your utility account, no more reliant on energy providers or snail mail.
  • Obtain a visual representation of energy usage and consumption profile
  • Identify power quality problems
  •  Records and time and date stamp the peak demand per site or meter point – offering additional information for load management

4. Load Management

What is Load Management?

The concept of load management in its simplest definition is the control of electricity usage by switching equipment on and off.  This leads to a change in the usage pattern moving usage around from high to load demand period or cost periods. 

Load management can be implemented to ensure that a customer does not exceed it set or agreed maximum demand.   Load Management does not  have the objective to reduce energy usage but rather move energy consumption from high to load demand or cost period thus offering customers savings.

 

What are the advantages of Load Management?

Various devices can be used in the application of load management. This includes:

  1. Load shift
  2. Load control
  3. Peak clipping
  4. Valley filling
Iskhus has the skills and selection of products and technology to asses and design a customer system for each customer.

5. Which means...

Solutions to our customers that have not only helped them save energy and money, but also contirbutes to making their companies environmentaly friendly. Our solutions have saved our customers’ energy between 6% and 34% on both new and existing installations. The next step in providing you with the best solution is to do an energy demand and usage study. We follow a process as set out below.
Energy Study Solutions Offering    Fulfillment  Verification  
qualify quantify optimise   procure manage
The holistic process of delivery starts
with an energy study at our client’s 
site. The purpose of the study is to 
define and measure the type and 
quantity of energy used.  
This results in an energy baseline.
 A solution offering is presented to the client, detailing where costs can be cut, energy savings made and alternative methods employed. We use these findings to design a tailor-made solution for optimising the energy saving potential of the facility. After procuring and assembling the necessary equipment at our manufacturing plant we install and commission the solution at their site. Once operational, the verification process begins, giving feedback on the performance of the solution and comparing projected with actual savings.