Reactive load
BSRIA Power quality guide (AG 2/2000) was written by C C Pearson and V Uthayanan and published by BSRIA in July 2000. It states:
The reactive load is made up with either a capacitor or inductor. Such loads produce reactive power which does not do any useful work. Due to this waste of the reactive power, the power factor of the system will always be less than one. The phase angle between current and voltage is either between 0 to 90º or -90º to 0, depending on the load, as shown in Figure 35.
--BSRIA
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