Did you know that while the National Electrical Code (NEC), the "bible" of the electrical industry, protects your business in terms of the safe installation of electrical conductors and equipment, it does not provide provisions regarding the quality or reliability of electric service? Power surges or disruptions can lead to performance problems, data errors, component failures, electrical overloads, and costly financial losses. Learn more about what CoServ is doing to protect your business.

Power Reliability

CoServ is actively managing service delivery and system design to ensure outages are kept to a minimum. Our state-of-the-art Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system (SCADA) and Outage Management System (OMS) provide CoServ operating personnel power grid monitoring and management tools that exceed industry requirements, and we continue to invest in enhancements. The SCADA and OMS systems include advanced features that quickly flag outages and allow CoServ to rapidly dispatch line personnel to the source of the problem. At times, personnel may even be able to restore power by remote control to get your systems up and running as quickly as possible.

Power Quality Consulting

Any business that relies on computers to control machinery, cash registers or even refrigerators, is subject to fluctuations in power supply. While we often think of the utility company first when a power fluctuation occurs, fluctuations and other power quality problems can also be caused by the customer's own equipment or by inadequate wiring and grounding. Architects and engineers design electrical systems for a given electric load requirement while preparing for construction, but their focus is frequently on sizing and on addressing safety issues. Wiring plans may not adequately address the power quality requirements of the business, leading to unreliability or power fluctuations. Frequently these fluctuations are so minute that you may not even be aware of them. At the most basic level, fluctuations in "power quality" can lead to slower processing speed. Problems increase as variances in power quality lead to data errors, corruption in binary codes, computer lock up, and in the worst-case scenario, actual component failures and overloaded wiring.

CoServ is here to not only help you understand the challenges your business may face in this area, but to assist you in developing pro-active plans to prevent damage or downtime. Our servicemen are experts in this field and are frequently called upon to troubleshoot when others cannot identify root causes. A CoServ Power Quality Serviceman is available to visit your business (or area of construction) and make recommendations regarding:

• Facility planning
• Surge protection
• Grounding
• Earth referencing
• Harmonics mitigation
• Power factor correction
• Voltage levels and specifications