Difference Between kWh (Active Energy) and kVAh (Reactive Energy) Billing

-

Lets discuss about what is the difference between active, reactive and apparent power?

Also, do you know the difference between kWh and kVAh billing? and how it affects your wallet?

Components of Electrical Power:

Electrical Power has two component active and reactive power. kVA is vector sum of reactive power (kVAR) and active power (kW).   
Reactive-Apparent-Active Power

How presently electricity bill charged?

Energy meter read based on active power (kWh). Customer bill includes energy consumption charges, fixed charges and other charges. Click Here for how electricity bills calculated in per unit. Active power is used for heat, light and motion. 

Reactive power (kVAR) drawn from grid to customers if customer use inductive equipment. Also, reactive power drawn by grid if customer use excessive capacitive load. 
Also, reactive power are used for electromagnetic field generation. 

Effect of reactive power considered by Power Factor. Power factor is the ratio of active to apparent power. 

Penalty levied on consumer based on power factor, if below 0.90 (lead or lag) and power factor above 0.95(lead or lag). As power factor determines efficiency of energy conversion. If power factor is 0.80 lag it determines 20% of the electrical energy not used efficiently. Therefore, customer's need to pay penalty. 
                                                                      

Why kVAh Billing Introduced?

- kVAh billing ensuring energy efficiently used and provide billing simplicity. It simplify penalizing and providing incentive to customer based on power factor. 

- Presently on national level more importance is given for energy conservation, energy management and stable grid system. Reactive power occupies more useful space while generation and distribution and reduce the active power transmission. Also, occupancy of reactive power are billed by the consumer. 

Now, the question is:
Why should I pay for the energy I didn’t used??? 
Beer comparision of active and reactive power
- As per the image above, presently customer need to pay even for reactive power. It means the equipment use electrical energy inefficiently. 

- Rather than satisfying reactive power requirement from local it is drawn from grid. No power factor improvement parameter taken care by customer. These negligence cause system instability.  

- The primary objective of the kVAh billing is to make customer maintain near unity power factor loads, improve power quality, improve system stability and reduce losses. 

- kVAh billing impose less charges to the customer using electricity efficiently compare to the other inefficiently using customers. 

- kVAh billing is implemented on all HT and LT customer with load above 20kW from 1st April 2020 by MERC (Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Board). 

- In some of the states kVAh billing are already introduced like Uttarpradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, etc. 

 
Refer Why save electricity?  for reason to save electricity. 





Thank you for reading !!!

Please comment, subscribe and share for more useful content...












Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Reduce Electricity Bill without Buying Energy Efficient Appliances

-
Image
Due to the corona outbreak presently the  majority  of the population are facing financial crises situation in the whole world. One thing has remained the same in this condition i.e our bills to pay every month.  The purpose of this content is to reduce your  Unit Electric Energy consumption  no major investment initially and long term profit. It will reduce electricity bills by at least 25-40%.    What is Per Unit Electric Energy Consumption? It is energy consumption for operating electrical appliances and technology. Per Unit Electric Energy Consumption is in kilo-Watt-hours (kWh). In kilo-Watt-hours (kWh), actual electric energy consumption per month  mentioned in the electricity bill.  Derived as, Unit Electricity Consumption  (kWh) = (Watt X Hours)/1000  As per the above unit electric energy consumption depended on the two-parameter.   1. Power of the appliances ( in Watt)  2. Operation of appliances per day ( in Hours)    Different Methods to Reduce Electric Energy Consumption Co
Read more

How to Check Maximum Electricity Consuming Appliances or Technology at Home.

-
Image
We use multiple appliances and technology at home for comfort and ease of life. All of them are not used for maximum hours. There are selective appliances used and they cost us to pay more electricity bills. Even we are not aware of where we are using more electricity and increasing monthly bills and reducing our savings. To simplify this I had made a calculation and steps to follow to know where we consume more electricity.  Electricity what we consume  is measured in kWh which is called per unit electricity  consumption mentioned in our electricity bills.                                                        Step 1- Calculate Average Per Unit Electricity Consumption. Take electricity bills for the last 3 months or if possible the last 6 months. Take an average of per unit electricity consumption of those months.  Average unit consumed per month = (Month 1+ Month 2 +.....+ Month n)/ Number of months (n) Step 2 - Calculate electricity consumed by household appliances We are consider
Read more