Do you mean on your house? The standard meter is for real (active) power in watts, the meter records Watt-hours. If the power factor on your house is too low, the power company can (and will) install a a VAR (Volt Amps Reactive) meter as well and also charge you for reactive power measured in VARs.please can anyone tell me which power is taken for billing
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That by itself is not correct. True power is Eline X Iline X Power factor. The reason the windings are 90 degrees apart is to include the phasor product in the multiplication.Yes, the more proper term is true power and is defined mathematically as follows:
True Power = the instantaneous product of: Eline * Iline.
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