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- Average motors operate inefficiently due to excess load
Approximately 50 million electric motors in the U.S. waste enough electricity to equal nearly one-third of total power demand.
- Field
- energy and batteries
- What they did
- Researchers estimated that millions of electric motors in buildings and factories waste about 30% more energy than necessary, accounting for nearly one-third of the total U.S. electricity demand.
- Why it matters
- Installing variable frequency drives (VFDs) to improve motor efficiency could free up gigawatts of power for other needs in the energy grid.
#energy efficiency#variable frequency drives#electric motors#grid power
