Electricity transmission network operators are being tasked with adding more renewable energy resources to the power grid. The use of static VAR compensators (SVCs) is growing as a means to control ...

AEP installed one of the first transformerless SVCs with its 69-kV, -40/+50-MVAR Crane SVC. This configuration is connecteddirectly to the bus, there is no transformer, hence the name transformerless.

The STATCOM system at Vermont Electric Power Co.'s Essex 115kV substation was installed to compensate for heavy increases in summertime electric usage (see photo , on page 41). These increases ...

Siemens liefert innovative Technologie zur Netzstabilisierung an Dominion Energy / Siemens providing first-of-its-kind grid stability technology to Dominion Energy in the US Siemens is providing ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has announced its development of the SVC-Diamond static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), a voltage source converter (VSC) shunt reactive power compensator with a modular ...

Transpower said today that New Zealand’s first large-scale STATCOM at Kikiwa substation (northeast of Murchison) will be in full operation later this month and is part of a suite of projects that will ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. MUNICH — Siemens Energy will supply a reactive power compensation plant to the Los Angeles Department of ...