Give your clients smarter electrical design options.
Residential electrification is increasing electrical demand and creating new service-capacity challenges. ZigTech helps designers evaluate intelligent power management alongside traditional electrical infrastructure upgrades.
More electrical loads can quickly change service requirements.
EV chargers, heat pumps, electric water heaters, spas, induction cooking, and other equipment are increasing the electrical loads designers must coordinate.
Power control can become part of the design strategy.
A properly listed Power Control System can manage flexible loads based on available electrical capacity, providing designers another option to evaluate before increasing service size.
Service sizing affects more than the panel.
Increasing electrical service size can affect equipment, feeders, meter sections, utility coordination, transformer capacity, construction cost, available space, and project schedule.
Higher project cost
Larger electrical services can require larger panels, conductors, feeders, meter equipment, and additional utility work.
More utility coordination
Service increases may require additional utility review, engineering, transformer evaluation, inspections, and energization coordination.
More design coordination
Larger electrical equipment can affect architectural space, clearances, equipment rooms, site planning, and other disciplines.
Clients expect better options
Owners and builders increasingly want designers to evaluate cost-effective alternatives before increasing electrical infrastructure.
Add intelligent power management to your design toolbox.
ZigTech PCS can help designers create more flexible residential electrical systems while giving clients another option for managing EV charging and other high-power electrical loads.
Optimize service sizing
Evaluate whether managed flexible loads can reduce the need for unnecessary service oversizing.
Integrate EV charging
Add EV charging while coordinating charging demand with the electrical capacity available at the home.
Reduce infrastructure impact
Avoiding an unnecessary service increase may reduce impacts to panels, feeders, meter equipment, and utility infrastructure.
Help control project cost
Give clients a design alternative that may reduce electrical equipment and infrastructure costs.
Reduce schedule exposure
Where a service increase can be avoided, the project may have less dependency on utility upgrade timelines.
Add value to your design
Help clients compare traditional infrastructure upgrades with intelligent power-control strategies.
Design around available capacity — not just connected load.
ZigTech PCS is designed to monitor residential electrical demand and manage a flexible high-power load when available capacity becomes limited.
Help your clients make better electrical decisions.
Good electrical design is not simply about making infrastructure larger. It is about selecting the right solution for capacity, cost, performance, and future needs.
Lower Upgrade Exposure
Potentially avoid unnecessary service upgrades where power management is appropriate.
Better Project Economics
Reduce unnecessary electrical infrastructure and associated construction cost.
Future Flexibility
Prepare homes for EV charging and continued electrification.
Smarter Design Value
Give owners and builders a modern alternative to automatically increasing service capacity.
Consider power control early in the design.
The best time to evaluate load management is during service sizing and electrical design — before equipment, utility requirements, and construction decisions are finalized.
Calculate
Determine calculated load, service capacity, and the proposed new electrical loads.
Evaluate
Determine whether EV charging or another flexible load creates a capacity concern.
Compare
Compare a service or feeder upgrade with an applicable listed power-control solution.
Specify
Coordinate the selected solution with drawings, calculations, specifications, listing, utility, and AHJ requirements.
Make code compliance part of the strategy.
Energy management and power-control provisions can affect electrical load calculations and the control of services, feeders, and branch circuits. The applicable requirements depend on the adopted NEC edition and project conditions.
Designer Coordination
Review applicable NEC requirements for energy management, power control, EV charging, service capacity, and load calculations.
Coordinate the PCS setpoint, controlled load, conductor ratings, overcurrent protection, equipment listing, utility requirements, and AHJ requirements.
Always use the locally adopted code edition and project-specific requirements.
Don't just size the system. Optimize it.
Intelligent power management gives designers another way to solve residential electrification challenges. By considering load control alongside traditional service upgrades, designers can help clients balance capacity, cost, schedule, and future electrical needs.
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ZigTech welcomes collaboration with electrical engineers, designers, consultants, architects, and design-build teams working on residential electrification projects.
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