by chris | Mar 20, 2013 | News, Power Factor
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 changing load and helping the business avoid PF charge penalties.
The wrong capacitor for the job is possibly worse than none at all so should be a professional job, not DIY.
For more information and independent advice on the best PFC solution for your business, contact TUMG on 09 576 2107
What are Power Factor charges?
New PF charges in place for Vector customers from April 1st 2013.
by DavidSpratt | Mar 7, 2013 | ICT
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 landline, business and tolls calling.
TUMG carefully analyses usage and trends before entering into the process of issuing tenders and RFP’s for mobile, landline and data services.
To read the full article in Computer World, by Divina Paredes, published on 7 March 2013, please click here (link to http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/nz-mobile-data-traffic-to-increase-eight-fold-by-2017). (more…)
by RichardGardiner | Feb 18, 2013 | Energy
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 savings of more than $6million resulted for participating customers – an average of 16.8% per customer.
“Towards the end of November we started to see extremely aggressive pricing from Meridian throughout NZ for time of use (TOU) half hour metered large commercial customers,” explained Chris Hargreaves, Electricity Analyst at TUMG.
“This was unusual as Meridian has not been competitive for quite some time. The new pricing was on par with what was being quoted over four years ago so it represented a major shift. We tracked winning Fixed Price Variable Pricing (FPVV) for Upper North Island customers and saw a massive drop of around 20% from March 2012 to December 2012.”
A number of customers had signed up early – between three and six months prior to their expiry date – so TUMG was able to act on this information immediately. (more…)
by RichardGardiner | Feb 18, 2013 | Energy
A new face has joined the TUMG team this year – Jonathan Woodbridge Buys is the company’s new Energy & Environment Technology Associate. Jonathan’s role is to help clients increase their operational efficiency and reduce consumption of electricity, gas and water at source.
This service will further build upon TUMG’s long-standing success reducing utilities costs by securing the best tariffs and terms through individual and bulk tenders. In short, TUMG can now sum up its complete service offering as ‘spend less and consume less’.
Jonathan strong track record applying for and accessing EECA grants for energy saving projects on behalf of organisations like Sky City and Manukau City Council will also offer clients a significant advantage, says Managing Director Richard Gardiner.
“Jonathan has a wealth of experience and has proved his worth many times over in previous roles. We are delighted to welcome him to the team and look forward to introducing Jonathan to our clients over the coming months,” he said.
During a five year stint as Energy Manager at Sky City, Jonathan was responsible for projects which won two commendations from the 2010 EECA Energy Awards and commendations in the 2010 IES Lighting Awards. (more…)
by DavidSpratt | Dec 19, 2012 | ICT
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
The tired old voices of vested interest have been drowned out in the rush to take advantage of lowers costs, flexibility and superior availability of cloud services.
When was the last time you heard some conceited individual from vendorland asking you to “define cloud services”? It’s been a while – because they have either been laid off or work for Google now.
- Hosting Cloud Services in New Zealand.
Revera, Gen-i and Datacom take a bow. Hosting Office 365 in New Zealand breaks the back of anti-cloud arguments around sovereignty, ownership and control of applications and data. (more…)
by DavidSpratt | Oct 29, 2012 | ICT
We are delighted to hear that tech giant HP has just confirmed its commitment to cloud computing. It will come as a relief to many of HP’s customers around the globe that the company has finally moved to address their lack of a viable cloud computing offering.
Their Converged Cloud – a ‘technology framework incorporating public and private clouds plus managed hosting’ – is HP’s open-source answer to the market-leading Amazon Web Services cloud. HP has hinted at some major announcements ahead – at December’s HP Discover Event in Germany – and industry whispers are that these will include details of their refined cloud services offer.
Over the past few years, a noticeable lack of communication around their offering in this key area is reflected in HP’s increasingly poor financial and share price performance – the company having recently hit its lowest stock price in a decade. (more…)
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 changing load and helping the business avoid PF charge penalties.
