By: G.S.Oinam
Modern society consumes large amount of energy, power and energy industry is a crucial part of the infrastructure and maintenance of the society and almost all the countries. Due to gap between demand and supply of power, the demand for power backup devices such as Hi-power inverter, UPS and silent & eco friendly generator are also increasing in the process. Increasing power generation is a long term plan; immediate power shortage can not be met by the power sectors. During the last decade, living standard of middle and upper middle class has been increased with resulted in tremendous increase in air conditioners, blower, washing machine, LCD TV, computers, CNC machines, medical equipments and sophisticated industrial machinery such that demand of power is increasing day by day. It is indicator of modernization and economic progress.
Introduction of power saving devices such as CFL bulb, LED bulb, power saving products like voltage stabilizer, power regulator system etc. in addition to power generation are very helpful working towards filling gap between power demand and supply ratio. The vast use of CFLs and power saver world wide has helped in saving the power and to provide quality of power without increasing power generation.
Now a day, government also promoting power saving devices and most of the industries, institutions, bank, hotel & corporate are using CFLs lighting system instead of conventional bulbs and tubes.