Reducing kVA and kVAR Demand With Motor Control

kVA and kVAR figures matter for reasons that go beyond the headline kW consumption most people focus on. They affect billing structures, supply capacity and how much headroom a site has for adding further equipment, and a motor running inefficiently under partial load can push these figures higher than the actual useful work being done would suggest.

Integra from Suresense addresses this by continuously matching motor power output to the real load, which improves power factor across the loading cycle as a natural result. As power factor improves, the apparent power, or kVA, needed to deliver the same real power drops, and the reactive component, kVAR, reduces alongside it.

For sites approaching supply capacity limits, or paying penalties tied to poor power factor, this reduction in kVA and kVAR can be just as valuable as the direct kWh savings Integra delivers. It's a byproduct of the load sensing technology rather than a separate feature, which means bus

inesses get it automatically as part of fitting the controller, without needing separate power factor correction equipment installed alongside it.

This makes Integra a useful option for sites that have previously looked at dedicated power factor correction equipment but want a solution that also delivers direct energy savings on top of the demand reduction.