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

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:08:06 -0400, "daestrom"
<daestrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:45:29 -0700 ItsASecretDummy
>> <secretasianman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>  Why do you think power companies hang capacitor banks on their
>>> delivery systems?
>>
>> To compensate for the inductance in long distribution lines?
>>
>
>Quite right.  And the inductance in step-down transformers.  Capacitor
banks 
>are one of a variety of schemes that falls under the general heading 
>'voltage sup****t' services.  Synchronous motors is another.  And having
the 
>ISO control the amount of MVAR carried by various generation units as
well.
>
>But 'Dummy' apparently thinks all customers are required to correct their

>own pf.  So why there is any MVAR load is a mystery (at least to him).
>
>daestrom


  The word for the day is governor.

  You know, the little device on the musical box which makes it play at
the right speed, regardless of the spring tension...  the similar device
on a generator that keeps the shaft speed constant.