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Many commercial businesses require the use of pumps, refrigeration units, air conditioning systems, lighting systems and the like which are no different than most homes however in terms of size their requirements mean super sized systems with expensive power bills.
When the power switch is turned on, a stationary motor acts as short circuit causing a much higher than normal current to flow. As time passes the magnetic field builds up and the motor starts to rotate and reaches steady state rpm and the current drops down to normal values.
As mentioned above, the current passing through the current coil of the Energy-meter installed by the power distributor to monitor power consumption is the algebraic aggregate of the individual resistive, inductive, and capacitive currents flowing in different loads of the household
Since the currents flowing in inductive and capacitive loads are half a cycle out of phase, it is possible to make their sum zero at any particular time by adjusting their magnitudes, consequently reducing the total current magnitude flowing through the Energy-meter (kW-hour meter) installed by the local distributors to monitor energy consumed by a subscriber.
Homes and businesses have many inefficiencies that must first be corrected making them far more energy efficient before any renewable energy system installations are planned.
OK lets get into what exactly is power factor. Your home or business power factor is a measure of the efficiency with which you utilize electricity from your buildings electrical distribution panel. Otherwise known as your breaker panel or just the electric panel but not to be confused with a fuse box which I will explain later.
The Energy Star logo on products is a very well known and advertised indicator that those products will offer 10% – 35% energy savings over their non-rated competition.
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