Power Factor for AC Pumps

[mike31154]

For the average home owner, the power company loses with respect to low PF, not the consumer. Pretty certain that large industrial customers are billed extra when their equipment includes many large inductive loads such as AC motors and they don't take steps to minimize a low PF.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by mike31154

For the average home owner, the power company loses with respect to PF, not the consumer. Pretty certain that large industrial customers are billed extra when their equipment includes many large inductive loads such as AC motors.

My logic is, even if the PF is included in their calculation, it got to be the pf of the whole house and not the individual motor. Generally, that gets to above 0.9.