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One question I never asked a utility when I should have...  

Virtually everything causes inductive power factor problems. You
correct for it (typically) with capacitors (some old-timers may call'em
condensers, but I think those belong to steam engines and HVAC units :-}).

What does the utility think if you offer to correct other people's
leading PF by having too many farads? This came up when I had to
improve the pf at a pump station. It had one each: 500, 1000, and 1600
hp 4160 volt motors. We went to great expense to switch the correct #
of cans in for each motor. But if we had left the worst case setup
connected at all times, we would have helped out with all the leading
factor from the nearby farms. I never was able to get my boss to
understand this, and so we never did get any feedback from the
utility.


So anyone with direct knowledge of a utility's position on this
case? I suspect that the posture would be the same penalty, if
only because their pf meter didn't read direction, only scaler
amount.


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