Comments on: Power factor correction kvar policy in countries

By: tarkeshwar mahto

tarkeshwar mahto — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:14:19 +0000

thanks i got enough informations about PF.

By: Binguu

Binguu — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:29:30 +0000

I’m looking forward to getting more information about this topic, don’t worry about negative opinions.

By: Johnya

Johnya — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:55:26 +0000

I didn’t understand the concluding part of your article, could you please explain it more?

By: andery

andery — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:47:24 +0000

Why do You think that Russia don’t have a penalty? They have. I live in Ukraine and we also have a penalty. I don’t know what is the price of reactiv power in our country, but now almost every new building with power over 50kWatt has а reactive power compensation. cos phi have to be near 0.95.

Sorry for my bad english.

By: Heinz R.

Heinz R. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:55:33 +0000

I am an Electrical Engineer in the USA and I don’t understand your Comments.

1) Electrical rates in the USA do not vary by State, they vary by a) Power company, b) and the type of consumer – for example, residential, industrial or commercial, and even within these there are several types of rates. One power company may supply power to several States or there may be several power companies in one State. Furthermore, rates often vary by the amount of power consumed, the time of day and often the season. Only very rarely are poor power factor penalties charged to residential users. Lastly, electric rates are not set by the States but by the power companies under the oversight and approval of the responsible Public Service Commission.

2) What do you mean with your $3 per KVAR comment? Actually, the most common way that power companies impose the power factor penalty is by charging for KVA-HRs used rather than KW-Hrs.

By: David Berger

David Berger — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:56:24 +0000

In ISRAEL there is a penalty for under 0.92 for low voltage consumers and under 0.90 for hi-voltage consumers. It is checked monthly and the penalty is 0.1% (of the electric bill) for every 0.001 deviation.

By: pranav

pranav — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:30:31 +0000

In countries like India, where there are no charges for reactive power at consumer level, I think utilities should install those meters than can measure reactive power also. Only then consumers will try to improve the power factor of their loads.

By: endar

endar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:47:07 +0000

it is nice information about PF. thanks