PFC pricing per VAR 1

[Power0020]

Any rule of thumb about the cost of $/VAR for additional capacitors banks for power factor correction (excluding additional circuit breaker?

 

[jghrist]

Depends. We recently bought two 4 Mvar banks of 4 kV outdoor substation banks, one switched, at a cost of $11/kvar. We also bought a 4 Mvar indoor 4 kV tuned capacitor bank at cost of $40/kvar.