Power- How much are we willing to pay?

Everything we do these days seems to need a reliable source of power.

But energy is becoming more expensive therefore an ever increasing number of both domestic and business customers are turning to renewable sources of energy. But anything other than the mains electricity has, until recently been fairly unreliable; in other words, the supply of power hasn’t always been constant.

But still, in an ever increasing technical world we demand more and more from our electrical appliances. We become inpatient if it doesn’t work immediately. We bemoan when we have to wait or it seems that things are unreliable.

Firms specialize in the type of power units that the ordinary person in the street would never even think of.

Imagine this scenario – you drive into town to get the weekly shop and run a few errands. Even though you hate doing so, you pay to park in the town center inserting your money into a meter that stands forlornly in the car park, in all weathers. No matter what the weather, or what day is it or any other technical mishaps; you insert you money, press the big green disc and out pops your printed parking ticket.

Ever wonder what powers or drives that little machine? It is electricity but we are not so much interested in where this energy is coming from – many machines do run on solar power now – but more so, the small unit inside that big case that produces the splendid little sticker that shows we have paid and displayed.

What about some of the ‘new fangled’ sustainable items that will very shortly become the very basic in house building or construction; rain harvesters, for example. These great big cauldrons that collect the rain water so that the house or building can use it as ‘waste water’ to flush the loos and other household tasks. The water somehow needs pumping from this vast cauldron into the house to the do the work. And what and where do you get this little black electrical box that supplies the power? Who would know what you need?

What about lighting in awkward places? Even massive cavernous spaces can be hard to light and heat. It needs specialized electrical equipment that you will not find in the local electrical store.

You see, with all these everyday applications, you need to have sound firm advice from someone or a company that isn’t out to trip you up or make you look daft. You need quick simple solutions that do not literally cost you the earth in terms of killing the planet or parting with your money.

The Chinese and far east countries seem to have this type of thing sorted and so ‘arms’ of major electrical companies are becoming the people to do fast business with.With companies that operate within the UK as an arm of a larger, global firm, you may be forgiven for thinking that the delivery time of various components could take much longer. In fact, the opposite is true. ‘Arm’ companies of large global electrical companies can offer great advice and fast efficient service. They offer small electrical components to power the smallest and biggest units.

The next time you need an electrical component for any application take a look at some of the biggest electrical suppliers, such as Sunpower UK. You’ll be surprised!