Fairford is underlining the benefits of its soft starters for use in green energy systems with the application of a DFE soft starter to an innovative hydro power system installed by Derwent Hydroelectric Power at the Mill House in Guildford, Surrey.
Reducing energy costs and corporate carbon emissions in the food industry can be accomplished easily and cost effectively, with fast ROI, using Fairford’s HFE single- phase power-optimising soft starter.
In an unusual application for a soft starter, Allard Lifts Ltd has used a Fairford HFE single- phase soft starter to control an elevator up a steep (240) 125 ft long slope in a private residence at Salcombe in Devon.
The value of energy surveys was underlined recently at Numatic International following the visit of a consultant from the South West and Action Energy Scheme. The findings of the survey have resulted in the fitment of six Fairford QFE soft starters to moulding machines at Numatic’s plant.
Sixteen Fairford QFE soft starters have been installed on the drive mechanisms of aeration paddles, as part of a $4.7 million solar power project to reduce escalating energy costs at a wastewater treatment plant operated by SC-OR in Oroville, California.
Fairford QFE soft starters are providing a very effective, low cost and reliable solution for synchronising the operation of wind turbines to distribution networks - smoothly without harmful inrush currents and mechanical damage, in several major wind farm projects in Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.