At an industrial sub-station with a 4 MW load, a capacitor of 2 MVAR is installed to maintain the load power

At an industrial sub-station with a 4 MW load, a capacitor of 2 MVAR is installed to maintain the load power factor at 0.97 lagging. If the capacitor goes out of service, the load power factor becomes (A) 0.85 (B) 1.00 (C) 0.80 lag (D) 0.90 lag
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At an industrial sub-station with a 4 MW load, a capacitor of 2 MVAR is installed to maintain the load power factor at 0.97 lagging. If the capacitor goes out of service, the load power factor becomes  0.80 lag

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