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VAR Management and Voltage Support for Transmission Systems

In the last decade there have been a number of voltage incidents with loss of load resulting from delayed voltage recovery or voltage collapse following a major transmission system disturbance. The effects of voltage instability resulting from the slow recovery of the power system voltages following a major disturbance, such as a line fault have resulted in the loss of generation (traditional & wind) and the loss of metropolitan load as in the latest recent blackout of August 14, 2003.

Traditionally transmission utilities have addressed dynamic voltage concerns by installing large SVCs, synchronous condensers, shunt capacitors, or shunt reactors to provide necessary dynamic reactive power support to an electrical transmission system following a major disturbance. Within the last decade FACTS devices such as the inverter based STATCOM, DSTATCOM, and D-VAR devices offer the transmission planning engineer an alternative solution to the dynamic stability problem.

This 1-day course will provide an overview of the economic benefits of an effective VAR management program and will include in-depth discussion of various aspects including:

  • Distributive reactive compensation placement as compared to a single site placement.
  • Optimal placement of capacitor or inductive banks.
  • Integrated control of VAR Management devices.
  • The use of reactive compensation in Wind Plant applications.

Who Should Attend

Utility transmission and distribution engineers, consultants, and other personnel involved in VAR management activities.

Instructor

Ernst Camm

Ernst holds a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and a MSEE from the Ohio State University. He is the current secretary of the IEEE-PES Task Force on Dynamic Performance of Wind Power Generation. Complete Bio