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

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:02:19 -0400, "daestrom"
<daestrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Don and I *know* why power companies use capacitor banks.  And it often
is 
>*not* because the customer has a poor pf.  If you knew much about power 
>distribution networks and voltage-sup****t schemes, you wouldn't even be 
>trying to argue your lame points about customers being required to pf 
>correct.  But you've been claiming that *customers HAVE* to pf correct.


 I worked for a power supply company, dip****, and nearly ALL of our
customers wanted PF correction for AC fed devices, and many if not most
were required to specify such features when they asked us to quote a
power supply design for them.  Integrated supplies are usually fed DC so
pf correction would come before those supplies.

  In particular, military, medical, scientific, and government customers
want pf correction.  Also any commercial planner with any brains would
choose it.

  So yes, building facilities personnel make considerations these days
for keeping their pf as low as can be feasibly managed, which included
paying us extra to design pf correction into our supplies.