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Originally Posted by kermitology
In the home, power factor isn't considered at all
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I wondered if this would change with widespread deployment of CFL bulbs - all of which have a lower power factor than incandescent due to the miniature step up transformers inside them.
And from my research it turns out that electric companies widely deploy power factor correction at their substations, and can also do dynamic power factor correction to minimize loads. So even if you had a home device that did power factor correction, it would only be between you and the substation, making it effectively invisible to the power generators in the first place.
Neat stuff.