Why do we need it / measure it ?
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Your transmission lines have to carry it, but you don’t have to generate it. If you hook a capacitor up to the mains, current will flow back and forth through it, but the energy it stores will be put back into the grid.
It’s undesirable because you still have resistance losses, and need bigger conductors. It’s current flowing without doing anything useful.
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