On 08/19/2012 03:38 PM, Christopher Brown wrote:
Though I am a little surprised about residential power being
measured/billed in VA not KW/h in North America. Pretty sure the US is
in North America, even Alaska in slightly more North America. Never
seen a VA/h meter in the US.
Was guessing it was a CA thing, even though I had never run across any
mention of VA billing in CA, but am looking at Manitoba Hydro, NB power
and SaskPower billing rates right now in KW/h.
Ed, can you chime in here, where is power billed by VA (outside of some
commercial/industrial and private generation agreements)?
VA is used all over the place in electrical systems calculations and
equipment specs but have never seen billing on it.
It's also my understanding that homes are always billed by the watt.
Even in industrial scale they charge a fee for poor power factor but
they aren't billing by VA, according to Wikipedia at least.
Still, a good plug-in power meter is a great tool for any home. I would
have one already but everything is already plugged into a battery backup
with a watt-meter built in and I'm not terribly concerned about accuracy.
-- m. tharp
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