IEEE PES' Substations Committee has published a whitepaper free to all IEEE PES members on how STATic synchronous COMpensators (STATCOM) and Static Var Compensators (SVC) have become prevalent in the ...

Editor's note: I thought this might be a thought-provoking white paper for Power Engineers in our audience. It's quite in-depth but will surely lead to some excellent insights into controlability and ...

The Chuxiong UNHDC converter station is part of the China Southern Power Grid that supplies power to the Pearl River Delta region. The largest and most important power center in terms of total energy ...

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 ...