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Increasing thirst for novel new sources of energy is unquenchable, but we seldom realize that we are wasting a component of the power everyday because of the lagging power factor in the inductive loads we use.Hence necessity arises to provide energy to load at its full potential without the wastage of power so as to achieve such, we have to improve power factor which occurs because of phase shift between voltage and current.To minimize harmonic contamination in power system and reduce transmission loss, power factor correction became an essential topic. Many control methods for Power Factor Correction (PFC) were proposed. This paper describes the layout and development of a one-phase power factor corrector using PIC (Programmable Interface Circuit) micro- controlling chip unit, after determining their zero crossing locations of load voltage and current waveforms. Capacitive banks are used for the compensation of power factor according to the load connected which is determined based on microcontroller based algorithm. Then using desired algorithm in determining and triggering switching capacitors in order to compensate excessive reactive components, thus withdraw PF about unity; as a result, acquires higher efficiency and better-quality AC output