"petrus bitbyter" wrote in message
ll.nl...

Nope. You are charged for kilowatts used; not volts, amps or volt amps.

Nope once more. You're paying for the energy used, usually measured in kWh
(kilo Watt hour). When the load is resistive the energy is calculated:

Which is what I said. If you draw reactive power you don't pay but the
utility co. gets ****ed off and wants you to do PF correction.