Power factor system implication and possible solution

Thesis (M.S.) California State University, Los Angeles, 2012Committee members: Kamran Karimlou, Juan Castaneda, Fred DaneshgaranPower Factor, Residential, SystemFor the most part the power-grid has two type of customers: commercial andresidential. Typically a single commercial type customer demands much more power than a single residential customer. Power factor affects both customers and power generation companies. For this reason numerous studies have been done on power factor and power factor correction. From these studies, actual hardware is put in place to provide the power factor correction necessary. However, because of power demand differences between commercial and residential customers, power factor correction devises have been implemented mostly on the higher demand customers. This thesis will take a look at the factor problem from both commercial and residential system aspect and will focus on residential loads effects and possible solutions