With rising gas and diesel prices, heating oil likely to jump up just as much, and energy now being tiered at ten levels or more for excessive users, it’s no surprise that companies are looking for every tool possible to help improve their energy consumption efficiency. Energy resources have literally become as important to limit use as buildings and enterprise networks. If the consumption of that energy isn’t directly associated with production and value creation, it’s a waste, literally. Variable frequency drives, or VFDs, have long been used as system controllers, especially with electrical motors. However, where early VFDs were primarily just used for smoothing out electrical energy flow so that machinery and motherboards weren’t burned out by unexpected grid fluctuations, today’s VFDs are doing a lot more. And the Eaton VFD line is at the front of the pack in terms of providing additional value in their models and packages. What many companies, particularly in ma...