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

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:18:07 -0400, "daestrom"
<daestrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>ItsASecretDummy wrote:
>> 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.
>
>And that is why large industrial customer revenue metering includes RkVA 
>meters as well.  So the utility can be paid for the equipment they
maintain 
>that is needed to sup****t the reactive load the customer is drawingl. 
But 
>if the customer was *required* to correct their own pf, there wouldn't be

>any RkVA load now, would there 'Dummy'??  Must be the utility installs
those 
>RkVA meters just for fun.
>

  Idiot.  Not all loads can be corrected.  That's where you forgot
reality.