Reactive Power Compensation in the Deregulating Electrical Power Environment Using Fact Controllers Applied to an Industrial Zone in India

Abstract

In this paper, the reactive power requirement and the most suitable compensating FACT device for an industrial zone in the deregulating electrical power environment is investigated. The existing method of compensation are made of capacitors connected in series or shunt as bank, which is creating problems such as power quality issues and voltage instability. To overcome this problem FACT devices can be used as compensators. Though many compensating devices are actively present in the real time, in some places it is not yet developed completely. The FACT controllers are giving a very good solution for the reactive power compensation problem. A standard 16 bus system was taken from an industrial zone. Its real and reactive power requirement is calculated and the same is simulated for various FACT controllers such as SVC, STATCOM, UPFC, SSSC in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The best results are analysed and tabulated.