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A power factor penalty appears on a bill because a poor factor

  • A.shortens the life of the utility's metering
  • B.obliges the utility to carry current that does no useful work
  • C.reduces the voltage the utility can deliver
  • D.increases the harmonic content of the current the site draws

Answer: B

The reactive current heats every cable and transformer between the generator and the load and occupies capacity that could serve another customer. Many tariffs offer an incentive above a threshold as well as a penalty below it.

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