EcoWatt Energy Launches Guaranteed Energy-Saving Device

EcoWatt Energy introduces their energy-saving device, the XRP-Lite for residential use that guarantees savings on your monthly electric bill. A nationwide deployment is slated for mid-July 2011.

Rancho Cucamonga, CA (PRWEB) June 22, 2011

EcoWatt Energy today introduced their energy-saving device, the XRP-Lite—a device that guarantees savings on consumers' monthly electric bills. The XRP-Lite is designed for residential and small businesses alike.

“We're thrilled to be launching our energy-saving device that has proven it can save residential and small commercial customers money on their monthly electric bills. Not only that, but this device helps to reduce energy that the utility companies have to push out, thus helping the environment due to the reduction of carbon dioxide gasses,” says Mickey Gross, CEO, EcoWatt Energy. “This product has been built from the ground up at EcoWatt Energy's facility in Rancho Cucamonga.”

EcoWatt Energy has a calculator right on their website that allows you to enter the amount of your last electric bill, or any bill for that matter, and see what your potential monthly savings are, gauge your annual savings, a five year outlook of savings, as well as how long it will take to get your return on investment back. This tool is one of the smartest aspects of their website with all of us more cognizant of our outgoing expenses.

The Smart Meter's Role In July of 2006, California's energy regulators approved a program to roll out about nine million conventional meters retrofit with communications co-processor electronics to gas and electric customers in the Northern California territory of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG & E). Since then, more states have followed suit with their own deployments of smart meters and the majority of these have been met with harsh criticism due to consumers' electric bills rising even though their usage has remained the same.

The smart meters are designed to allow the utility companies to track voltage levels and now power events can be tracked and logged across the entire customer base. These new digital meters also allow customers to see their own energy usage which may assist them in reducing consumption.

The big issues with the smart meters lies within the breadth of the utility's expectations of the everyday consumer—they expect the consumers to track when energy costs are at a minimum and then use their electricity. Most people are not going to wake up at 2am to wash the dishes, do laundry, or cook—and when is a good time to not run your air conditioning in the Summer or heat in the Winter? With the analog meters of the past, there was no way for the utility to see how much stored energy you had in your home or business' system—now they can and they are charging for it!

Electric Energy Saving Device- Everything You Should Know | Green ...

If you’ve seen claims that some device is going to slash your electricity bill by 10% to 25%, you may be in for a disappointment. The fact is, these Electric Energy Saving Devices , while they cut measured electricity consumption for some older electrical motors, barely put a dent in most people’s electricity bill.

These devices are usually called Electric Energy Saving Device, power factor correctors, or power saving devices. They contain a capacitor, which is an electrical device that stores electrical energy for short periods between two conductors. You’ll read sales pages for these devices that refer to improving the power factor of inductive loads. The idea is that voltage on an alternating current line fluctuates in wave form between positive and negative, sixty times a second. A capacitor can improve the power factor (the proportion of current in the wave form that the motor actually uses) so that more of the energy you draw from the grid actually gets used to do useful work, and less gets wasted because it wasn’t needed at that precise instant. (It can be saved in the capacitor and released some tiny increment of time later.)

Devices marketed as Electric Energy Saving Device or power saving capacitors are real, working devices, but claims that they might cut your power bill are misleading. The sellers usually hint at gains of 10-25% but actually guarantee nothing, and in reality your savings may only be 1-5%, not nearly enough to cover the expense of installing one of these units.

There are two main types of electrical loads: resistive loads, such as lights, or anything producing heat; and inductive loads (such as an electrical motor, or anything involving electromagnetism). Unfortunately, these devices only work on inductive loads – typically electric motors – and only those that don’t already have a capacitor built into them. And if you do a load estimate for your house just by scanning all the devices you use and guessing at their wattage and hours of use per day, you’ll soon discover that inductive loads make up a fairly small proportion of your overall load – perhaps 25% or less. (You don’t run your washing machine more than a few hours a week, but some lights are on 12 hours a day or more.) So the savings you’re being promised will only apply to that small percentage of your total electrical bill. Manufacturers have been adding capacitors to anything with an electric motor for a number of years, because it’s one easy and inexpensive way to increase energy efficiency of those motors, thereby making the price to efficiency ratio more appealing to consumers. If you own an ENERGY STAR appliance containing an electric motor, chances are it already has a capacitor and you won’t save any electricity on that device with one of these power saving units.

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