Knowledge & Skills for Today’s Power & Energy Professional
With the fast evolving energy landscape driven by smart technologies and best practices, the need for Africa to keep pace with current trends in Energy Management and Career enhancement is key. FullSpectrum Energy is committed to the spread of energy management and power quality knowledge, skills, technologies and best practices across Africa. Through Publications in […]
Telecom cell site protection – Key considerations
The effect of Lightning strikes is now a major HSE and of enormous financial concern to many organizations. Having direct and indirect consequences. Telecom cell site are vulnerable because of their usual isolated locations where a strike can damage or cause expensive downtime, ultimately leading to revenue loss. According to the British standard, BS EN […]
What Factors Affect Local Soil Conditions & its Resistivity?
Achieving a good earth mostly depend on the local soil conditions. The electrical resistance of a conductor is its opposition to the passage of an electric current through it. The resistance of a wire is directly proportional to its length and inversely proportional to its cross-sectional area: The constant is called the resistivity and is […]
Save your Money on Earth Electrodes ……a Case for Copperbonded Steel Earth Rods
Quality earth rods are commonly made from either solid copper, stainless steel or copperbonded steel. The copperbonded steel cored rod is by far the most popular, due to its combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and comparatively low cost. Solid copper and stainless steel rods offer a very high level of corrosion resistance at the expense […]
Why earthing is Vital and what it should be?
Grounding (Earthing) plays a vital role in all electrical systems or infrastructure. It is the number one key power quality (PQ) factor, together with wiring contributes 90% of PQ problems. Proper earthing (grounding) system help resolve power quality issues like Voltage Disturbances, Harmonics, Lightning & Surge Protection, Electromagnetic Interferences and Electrostatic Discharge. All these affect […]
Types of Voltage Disturbances Explained
In Power Quality troubleshooting, voltage disturbances are critical factors. The ability to identify the characteristics and analyze the disturbance is key to the appropriate power quality solution to be deployed. Most often referred as surge (transient overvoltage), while they are not. Today, we shall explain, basically what surges (transient overvoltages) are and what they are […]
Runner killed by lightning strike during race in Italy
A 44-year-old Norwegian woman was struck and killed by lightning while running a race in Italy over the weekend. The Südtirol Ultra Skyrace organizers called off the 75-mile ultramarathon due to extreme weather conditions 30 minutes before the incident, but the woman and other runners were in an area near a lake where they could […]
Save on Energy – Maximize Profit
Our energy management solutions offer effective and efficient use of energy to maximize profit and give you competitive advantages. Call NOW Victor Oyedu, FNSE, FNIEEE, CPQ. Power Quality and Energy Management Specialist. Publisher at Afrienergyonline.com CEO, FullSpectrum Energy Solutions Limited, Nigeria.
How much is Energy costing your organization? …It is time to know…
At FullSpectrum, we understand how organizations use energy and it’s easy for us to advise and implement smart solutions on how to reduce consumption and save money. CALL for an Energy Audit TODAY and be amazed at numerous Energy Saving Opportunities available to you. Enquiries Victor Oyedu, FNSE, FNIEEE, CPQ. Power Quality and Energy Management Specialist. […]
Lightning strikes Petronas’ GPP distillation tower
A distillation tower at Petronas gas processing plant 6 (GPP 6) in Santong caught fire after it was struck by lightning at about 8pm yesterday. Firemen from the Paka station and Petronas have been battling the fire for nearly eight hours before it was brought under control early today. The area has been cordoned off […]
