1.

Study existing electricity bills

excess Saving in Tax on

excess
unit Rate Energy bill incentive Sales
kVARh kVARh Energy kVArh
Month kWh kVAh P.F Consumed per if PF (0.5% to @ Saving
Lag Lead bill charges @
due to unit maintained 3.5%) 19.04
0.57Rs/Unit
low PF at unity Ps/Unit
0.99
Oct-20 52813 53239 1496 5193 2 426 8,37,800 16 6,758 2,960 4,189 1,070 14,977
0.99
Nov-20 49360 49808 1473 5239 1 448 7,89,830 16 7,169 2,986 3,949 1,083 15,187
0.98
Dec-20 49152 49749 1455 6184 8 597 7,87,150 16 9,561 3,525 3,936 1,291 18,312
0.98
Jan-21 46091 46745 1456 6325 6 654 7,40,290 16 10,504 3,605 3,701 1,329 19,140
0.97
Feb-21 40908 41785 1407 7125 9 877 6,64,481 16 14,245 4,061 3,322 1,524 23,153
  0.98
Mar-21 50889 51559 1427 6828 7 670 8,18,690 16 10,779 3,892 4,093 1,428 20,192
Total Saving could have achieved if APFC panel functions properly (For last six month) 1,10,960

Oct20 to March21 -
Energy bill.xlsx

2. Findings
1. WEF April 2020, MSEDCL has implemented kVAh billing system and earlier kWh billing is now absolute.
2. Existing APFC panel controller is not meant to support the changes in billing and hence not functioning properly (e.g . refer
Feb21 bill) and it is resulting in low power factor (0.979) in peak load hour and generating excess kVARh (7125)during non-
peak load hours. 
 3. Also the existing capacitor capacities are oversize and not supporting to the changed billing type.
4. When load are at peak PF is not maintained at unity and at low load (During night and holidays) excess reactive power is
generated .
5. This is resulting in excess billing.

3. Solution

To overcome above mentioned issues and to get the saving in energy, we are proposing bellow remedies.

Install/Modify Reactive Compensation System

1. Replace existing controller with smart controller to fine tune requirement depending on load factor.
2. Addition of low size capacitors to mitigate low requirement of kVARh in non-peak hours.
3. Programming of controller to match with new billing requirement
4. Modification in wiring of existing power and control wiring.  

Advantages of kVAh billing system:-

Advantages to consumer:-
1. kVAh billing will ensure that the consumers who will utilize the power efficiently will be paying less energy charges as compared to
others who are not using the power efficiently.
2. The new billing methodology is much simpler to understand as number of parameters viz. PF, rkVAh (lead/lag), kWh units) are
reduced.

Advantages to utility:-
1. Good system stability, improved power quality, improved voltage profile and reduced capital expenditure.
2. Complete recovery of cost of active and reactive powers.
3. Zero/ minimal drawl of reactive power by consumers.
4. Reduction in power purchase cost