Q&A

The technology was developed in Japan in 1993 to combat rising energy costs due to increasing demand and a lack of natural energy resources. The Japanese grid network is supplied with 100V and the Japanese powerPerfector allows for optimisation levels of 2, 4 or 6%. In some respects the technology is better suited to the UK market because there is a greater opportunity for Voltage Power Optimisation (VPO)^®, and therefore savings, due to higher variability in the supply voltage level.

The original design of the powerPerfector has been adapted for the UK market to suit our higher voltage network. There is also a greater potential to optimise, within a band of 5 – 10%. In the UK, powerPerfector is the sole supplier of Voltage Power Optimisation technology. We have been distributing the technology in the UK since 2003 and have seen a rapid growth in interest as awareness of the technology grows.