How power factor correction helped Mackays
Refining energy use for a tropical fruit grower.
Mackays Produce Solutions were looking to reduce electricity usage and save money on their energy bills. Here’s how they kept their climate-controlled facility running efficiently.
Refining energy use
Mackays Produce Solutions, known as Mackays, provides expert consulting and storage services to tropical fruit growers. Their Larapinta facility in Queensland operates energy intensive equipment such as transformers and electric motors. With energy being one of their largest expenses alongside payroll, we proposed a solution to refine their energy use.
Improving energy use with power factor correction and LEDs
We installed a power factor correction unit with a supply of 175kVAr and replaced 45 high bay and flood lights with LEDs.
We helped Mackays to reduce the amount they pay in network demand charges. This improved power factor and corrected supply inefficiencies. Mackays saved over $25,000 in the first two and half years of the project’s completion. They also reduced overall grid energy consumption, lowering their greenhouse gas emissions by 170 tonnes per year.
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- cut electricity costs by reducing kVA demand charges
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1This is an estimate of the difference in energy costs payable by the customer over the relevant period, before and after installation of LED lighting. This estimate is based on various assumptions at the time of AGL’s proposal, including in relation to the customer’s annual energy consumption at the premises, hours of operation of lighting and the customer’s retail tariff structure.
2This is the estimated reduction in the customer’s energy consumption at the premises following installation of the LED lighting, converted using the relevant National Greenhouse Account Factor for scope 2 emissions at the time of proposal. This estimate is based on various assumptions at the time of AGL’s proposal, including in relation to the customer’s annual energy consumption at the premises and hours of operation of lighting.