Re: Utility Billing KWH/ Measures in KVA but bills in kWh

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:19:01 -0400, "daestrom"
<daestrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>If you knew anything about revenue metering you'd know that kw-hour
meters 
>automatically respond to only the true power used.


  If you knew anything about it, you would know that power companies
REQUIRE their industrial customers to correct power factors on loads that
present high pf differentials.


>  A 1.0 kW load at unity 
>power factor makes the dial spin just as fast as a 1.25 kVA load at 0.8
pf 
>or a 2.0 kVA load at 0.5 pf.

  And if you knew a goddamned thing about it, you would know that that is
exactly why they take steps to get paid for what gets used, not what is
read on the meter.