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Many commercial and industrial (C & I) users to use a load control or energy management system for managing power consumption during the day. The goal is to keep costs low and to the detriment of the overall demand by improving its utilization (the ratio of average load over a given period – the peak occurring Save this period). These users prefer a flat load curve rather than one with peaks and valleys.

remains the operating costs – the heating of the system – among the more overlooked commercial and industrial users and was several thousand dollars per month.


Although industrial

can low-cost heating via cogeneration or heat extraction equipment Industrial equipment obtained with conventional electric heaters are substantially increasing their costs of the application. And those that can be used with natural gas or other fossil fuels for heating, more than fly away costs to levels that justify an alternative heating system.

C & I, many users have done a good job to improve their processes to reduce the rate of peak demand, “said Gary Connett, director of member services and resources planning for the Great River Energy and utility companies in Elk River , Minnesota. “But they do not look to their heating, and this is where further improvements can be made that will affect the bottom line.”

Connett said industrial users rarely perform audits, which include heating because of energy to these systems is often used as an operating expense side. So it is possible that those electrical heating systems can be used effectively to meet their load management.

In addition, those using fossil fuels, can lead to heat such as LP gas and assume that the sources are the most practical to generate. But rising prices and demand in a volatile market challenge this assumption.

management tool of the new demand for heating

Since the

prices for energy as a tool of demand management, the news came on the possibilities of C & I for many users: Electric Thermal Storage (ETS). ETS stores energy as heat in times of low demand for use in times of high demand. By the storage of low-cost (free calls) electricity as heat for use in heating the day at ETS users a quick return on investment, the greater the potential for significant economies of achieving ongoing energy.

now a range of ETS products for C & I market has been developed by Steffes Corporation (www.steffes.com). Cooperation with Department of Energy Technologies (LTE), an arm of the Technology Research, Hydro-Quebec, an online service called Blast ThermElect Steffes ETS, the heating power produces far greater than current systems offers STE. It is also easy to install and has a small footprint applications for C & I, and is safer, quieter and cleaner than natural gas systems.

ETS only for C & I applications in North America, develops the system is a central ThermElect convection oven. During the peak demand for free the ETS automatically converts electricity into heat and stores the heat from the module especially high density ceramic. The core is capable of heat up to 1,650 F, which has a volume of 12 to 1 on the boiler. ETS has enough storage capacity to use available thermal comfort 24 hours a day, while it allows the user to a cost of peak demand without electricity prices, to achieve a very economical and cost effective heating.

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