Tiered Rates vs. Time of Use Rates | What to Know
Tiered Rates vs. Time of Use Rates Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) recently announced that they would automatically transition residential customers currently on a tiered rate plan with PG&E to …
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Power Outages Happen | Is Your Backup System Prepared?
Power outages are becoming more and more frequent in California due to increased demand and supply shortages. Last year alone, 28.4 million utility customers were affected by California’s 25,281 blackout …
30 Day Electrical Load Studies | Why Are They Necessary?
Why Are Load Studies Necessary? When providing electrical contractors with load studies for a new installation, end customers often fail to understand why they are necessary. After all, the branch …
Energy Bills | Control Your Biggest Costs
Electricity on Fire In the world today, the topic of energy is at the forefront of many minds.In other words, people are starting to take energy consumption seriously. The movement …
Top 5 Plant Equipment Impacted by Power Quality
Electrical Equipment Powers Us Electricity powers the electrical equipment used in our lives. It is a streaming force we rely on every day that we easily take for granted. In …
Why Should I Care About the “C” in SCADA?
SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, which is a standard industry term for a system of software and instrumentation that allows one operator to supervise and control many remote processes and machines.
3 Ways to Reduce Cybersecurity Threats | Facility Subnet Equipment
Many people are surprised to hear that APT is in the CyberSecurity business. APT is uniquely positioned to help companies bridge the gap between the corporate IT department’s responsibility and the operations team’s equipment.
Data Quality | Why Communications Between Devices Fail
Data Quality | Device Communications Data quality communications are the critical path for power monitoring systems to function properly. Device communications are only as good as the hardware, firmware, protocols, …
10 Power Quality Terms and What They Mean?
What is Power Quality? Power Quality has various definitions. For instance, a technical definition, based on the voltage/amperage/distortion of the sinusoidal waveforms in an alternating current system. As well as, …
Electrical Studies & Why You Need Them?
Why do I need short circuit, coordination, and arc flash studies? And what are they?