BVSI Announces a New Era of Clean Efficient Power

PITTSBORO, NC, January 13, 2011 (Press-News.org) 3DFS Power Controller is designed to deliver power that is more than 100X cleaner than electricity provided by the public grid, while delivering power savings on the order of 25 to 40%. Unlike competing products the 3DFS Power Controllers operate on a real-time basis, not only correcting less than ideal power factors but also removing all noise and transient disturbances in the power supply. The 3DFS Power Controllers also provide audit trails of power savings for federal and state energy credit programs and can be networked to accommodate smart grid functions.

The quality of electricity drawn from the public grid is surprising poor due to both less than ideal power factors as well as distortions, i.e. noise. The US Department of Energy estimates that 70% of the electric motors in the US operate on less than an ideal power factor. 3DFS estimates that the typical home operates at a power factor worse than 0.7. In addition the total harmonic distortion ("THD") of the electricity typically supplied by the public grid is approximately 10 to 20%, versus a clean power threshold of 6.0%. The 3DFS Power Controllers deliver power with a THD under 0.1%. Despite the decrease in efficiency caused by distortions in the power supply (as best measured by THD), almost no utility regulators across the world set targets for THD in the power supply. The new standard in clean power set by 3DFS allows for electronics to operate much more effectively as well as waste less power.

Similarly power factors are largely ignored in the residential electricity market where utilities in the absence of smart meters do not measure and bill homeowners for power factors under the ideal 1.0. Nonetheless such low power factors require the power companies to reserve additional generating capacity to deliver the required amount of power. By contrast commercial and industrial customers are billed at higher rates for low power factors.

3DFS estimates that approximately 1 trillion kWh (or $100+ billion) annually could be saved by a total adoption of its power controllers across the US with a payback of approximately one year. This power savings is the equivalent of 1,000 typical coal fired power generating plants. In addition delivering clean power to equipment, such as motors and compressors, will at least double the service life of such equipment.

3DFS also plans to introduce a Microgrid Controller adaptation of its 3DFS Power Controllers in early 2011. The Microgrid Controllers will bring greatly enhanced fuel efficiency and service lives to the 1+ trillion watts of generators in the DoD inventory. In addition to its economic impact, this increase in efficiency will also reduce casualties incurred in theater, since the DoD estimates that 60 to 80% of casualties are related to fuel resupply convoys.

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3DFS is a dba of Black Velvet Solar, Inc.