Effectiveness of a Power Factor Correction Policy in Improving the Energy Efficiency of Large-Scale Electricity Users in Ghana

Confronting an energy crisis, the government of Ghana enacted a power factor correction policy in 1995. The policy imposes a penalty on large-scale electricity users, namely, special load tariff (SLT) customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), whose power factor is below 90%. This paper in...

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Main Authors: Samuel Lotsu, Yuichiro Yoshida, Katsufumi Fukuda, Bing He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-07-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/13/2582