Electrical Service
Protecting Your Investment
Business Interruptions: The fact is power surges, spikes, transients and poor or even no preventive maintenance is causing damage on a regular basis. These events wear down components and eventually cause premature failure. The more power your facility uses, the greater the risk of failure. Electrical failures are inevitable without preventive maintenance.
The average hourly business interruption cost incurred for office buildings is 0.0681 per square foot. Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Life/Safety Risks: Electrical distribution system malfunctions are now the leading cause of office structure and basic industry fire in the United States. How do building owners and facility managers reduce this risk? By implementing an electrical preventive maintenance program. Nearly two-thirds of all electrical distribution fire losses are preventable.
A well administered electrical preventive maintenance program reduces accidents, save lives, minimizes costly breakdowns and unplanned shutdowns of equipment. Source: National Fire Protection Association NFPA 70 B
Utility Costs: Without preventive maintenance, the distribution system can waste on average $1,000 to $4,000 in electric utility cost annually! Source: Infrared Research Inc.
Improperly torqued connections and bad contacts cause increased amperage draw and power loss as well as heating and arcing (which is both ineffective and dangerous). Source: National Energy Management Institute
Electrical connections can be deformed by over-tightening. This will also cause increased amp draw, power loss and heating. Source: Maintenance Technology Magazine
Building owners and managers have installed power factor correction systems to avoid penalty charges from the utility company. Many power factor correction systems over five years old are not working as designed, if working at all. An annual electrical preventative maintenance program significantly reduces these energy wastes.
Power Quality Analysis: Power quality problems cause loss of data and malfunction of computerized equipment. In the 90s, more than 40 percent of the United States' electricity was controlled or used by microelectronics. Today that number is 60 percent and growing. Microelectronic equipment demands a clean, dependable power. Source: Edison Electric Institute
Building owners and facility managers can greatly reduce the damaging effects of power quality problems by implementing an electrical preventive maintenance program.
Surge Suppression: MISSION CriticalGard™ Surge Protection Systems protect your facility from lightning damage and transients. Electrical transients have the ability to start fires and damage equipment in your facility.
A transient is a temporary excess of voltage and/or current in an electrical circuit. Transients are short duration events, typically lasting only a few thousandths of a second.
External transients:
- Lightning:
- Strikes the United States 90 million times per year
- Causes 56 Billion dollars in property damage annually
- Responsible for over 30,000 building fires annually
- Causes 30 percent of all power outages
- Utility Grid:
- Fluctuating Demand
- Utility Grid Switching
- Power Line Failure
- Falling Trees
- Ice
- Auto Accidents
Internal transients:
- Starting and stopping of elevators, motors, heating and air conditioning equipment, as well as
manufacturing equipment.
Eighty percent of all transients are generated internally.
The best protection from both external and internal transients is the installation of a surge protection program.
TEGG Corporation’s Mission CriticalGard™ Zone Defense System is your best protection.
Insurance/Certification: Insurance companies lose millions of dollars each year due to electrical failure. When insurance companies lose, so do their customers. More and more, insurance companies are encouraging their customers to participate in electrical preventive maintenance. It's a savings for all.
Insurance companies recognize the risk associated with electrical distribution systems.
What equipment breaks down most often? The following equipment is ranked by frequency of loss claims, accounts for the most common equipment breakdowns and includes exposures found in every business and organization:
- Electrical equipment of all types
- Air conditioning and refrigeration
- Boilers, pressure vessels and piping
- Machinery (all types)
- Computer equipment
- Motors (including air conditioning)
- Pumps
- Telecommunications
Top ten occupancies for electrical failures:
- Office Buildings
- Retail / Wholesale Merchandising
- Municipalities
- Hospitals / Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Apartments/ Residences / Housing
- Paper Mills
- Primary and Secondary Schools
- Hotels / Motels
- Automobile Manufacturing
Your best strategy to manage insurance premium cost is to implement an electrical preventive maintenance program.
Asset Management: The average life expectancy of your Electrical Distribution System is only 17 years when electrical preventive maintenance does not exist. When your electrical system is cared for, its life expectancy goes to an average of 35 years. Your electrical distribution system is valued at 10-15 percent of the facility construction cost. The average safe life of an electrical distribution system is 30 years. Proactive care extends the life of the equipment and delays costly capital expenditures.
Manufacturers' Recommendations: All manufacturers of electrical equipment require periodical maintenance. A TEGG® Service Contractor can meet those requirements and maximize the life of your facility's electrical distribution system. Below is a chart that can help you determine how often you should perform maintenance.
