Family A
Diagnostics and Power Quality
Solutions
It is the entry point to everything else. We install Class A equipment at your facility for seven days and leave with your actual load curve, your harmonic profile and your compliance status against the Grid Code.
The problem
Almost every supplier shows up with a proposal before measuring anything. They quote you a capacitor bank without knowing whether your problem is reactive or harmonic, and sell you panels without having seen what time your peak occurs.
The CFE bill shows an average power factor for the period. The Grid Code is not evaluated that way: the requirement is verified on short-interval measurements and is met when the value holds for a very high percentage of the month's time. A plant with a 0.98 average and motor starts that pull it down for twenty minutes every shift can be outside the criterion without the bill even hinting at it.
They are two different questions, and only one of them costs you money. Measuring is the only way to know which one is yours.
The lines in this family
The seven-day campaign feeds all three. You measure once, and from it come the diagnostic, the compliance report and the correction plan.
Adjusted baseline, measurement and verification under IPMVP, and return calculated measure by measure. No down payment, and creditable against your investment.
SEE THE LINE → A.2 · COMPLIANCECompliance study and report covering the eight parameters the standard requires, not three.
SEE THE LINE → A.3 · QUALITYPower factor, harmonic filters, resonance study and thermography.
SEE THE LINE →Work Plan filed with the authority · protection coordination · grounding systems · predictive testing · surge protection and shielding. Quoted within the scope of the study or separately.
Signs it applies
It is on the cover page of your CFE contract. It is the criterion that determines whether the Grid Code applies to you.
Check the bonus or penalty column on your last three bills. If there is a penalty, you are already paying for something that can be corrected.
Variable frequency drives, induction furnaces, welding equipment, rectifiers. Each one injects harmonic current into your installation.
It is the most common answer and the most useful. If nobody has measured, nobody knows — and that includes CFE until the requirement reaches you.
In an initial review, with your bill on screen, we tell you what is worth measuring and what we would expect to find. If the bill analysis does not justify the campaign, we tell you so and it ends there.
How we work
Twelve months of billing on the table and a technical qualification visit. That defines the scope of the measurement, not a catalog.
Installation of the Class A analyzer at the service entrance and at the suspect panels, for a minimum of seven calendar days, and the report within ten business days after the equipment is removed.
When the finding requires it, the Work Plan filed with the authority and the supporting file.
Monthly power factor and Grid Code compliance report under a reliability contract, so the data does not freeze the day we remove the equipment.
When it is not for you
If you are on low voltage and your bill shows no power factor penalty, the Grid Code does not apply to you and the measurement will cost you more than it will save you.
If your installation is less than two years old, the drawings are complete and the load has not grown, it is most likely fine and the study would only confirm it. We tell you so before charging for it.
If what you need is a compliance report to submit and nothing more, say so. It is a shorter and cheaper scope than an investment-grade diagnostic, and there is no point in paying for the latter.
How we work
Seven-day campaign with a Class A analyzer.
Engineering based on your real load curve.
Supply and installation inside your fence line.
GTO Vigía sustains the result after construction.
Energy solutions
In a short meeting we review your bill with you, on screen, and tell you what is worth measuring.
We work with plants on medium and high voltage. By sending you accept our privacy notice.
Strengths
GTO Energy offers electrical engineering tailored to your plant. Request your diagnostic and start by knowing where the opportunity is.
Fully creditable if you implement. No charge if we find no package that pays back in under 4 years.
Compliance reports based on RES/550/2021, filed with the CNE and CENACE.
We service plants installed by others, starting with a condition survey.
Partners with trademark-use authorization
Group clients since 1983
Also: Cuadritos, Productora Nacional de Papel and Telemar.
