On 21/01/2018 16:20, harry wrote:

I have also heard on good authority ("Big" Clive Mitchell) that in the
future, domestic smartmeters can be switched to a mode that will take
account of, and penalise you for, presenting a load with a poor power
factor.

That is already done to commercial users.


Its not *done* to commercial users, they get rates depending on factors
like; power factor, peak power, etc.

The savings can be enough to get big sites to actively cut some power
when demand is getting high.