What are Power Factor charges?

Power Factor can be likened to carrying a plank through a door.  If the plank is lined up, it will fit through a regular door without hitting the frame, but if the plank is taken through side on, you’ll need a wider door or you’ll cause damage.  Our supply network is...

What is a Power Factor correction unit?

Power factor correction units (or PFC Units) consist of capacitors which act as reactive current generators. By providing the reactive power, they reduce the total amount of power you must draw from the network. The dynamic PFC automatically and safely compensates for...

NZ Mobile Data Traffic Growth

This article in the latest issue of Computerworld reflects on how increasing use of smartphones and cloud services is driving mobile data growth.  It brings into focus the need to identify how a company’s spending trend is more towards data and mobile data and less on...

Pre-Contracting Pays Off to the Tune of $6 Million

Signing up with TUMG well ahead of their contract renewal date paid off for a group of 57 energy clients at the end of 2012.  Unusually aggressive pricing from Meridian and then Contact in December created a savings opportunity that TUMG was quick to exploit.  Energy...

2012 – Up’s, Down’s and Just Plain Crazy

David Spratt, ICT analyst from Total Utilities Management Group, reviews 2012 with a mixture of humour, bile and straight up taking the mickey. Up’s Cloud services The tired old voices of vested interest have been drowned out in the rush to take advantage of lowers...