Plant Main Bus with Capacitor Bank: Power Factor Raised from 0.820 to 0.954

A 480 V plant main bus with motor loads and a 200 kvar capacitor bank in four 50 kvar steps under automatic power factor control. Reactive power drops from 364.0 to 164.0 kvar, kVA from 636.0 to 546.7 and I²R loss to 73.9%.