STATCOM
Static Synchronous
Compensators
STATCOM Systems are powerful and cost effective ways to provide continuous voltage regulation, improve voltage stability, fulfill the grid compliance requirements and provide dynamic grid support where it’s needed.
Primary Benefits
- Power factor correction
- Voltage regulation improvement
- Flicker mitigation
- Load balancing
- Voltage ride through support
Application Areas
- Transmission and Distribution Systems
- Metal Industry
- Mining Industry
- Railway Transmission Systems
- Grid code compliance applications of solar and wind energy systems
STATCOM Features
- Voltage source converter (VSC) based shunt compensation system
- Can provide both inductive and capacitive reactive power
- Flicker mitigation
- Features
- Power factor correction
- Voltage regulation
- Flicker compensation
- Voltage ride through support
- Load balancing
Fundamentals
The generated reactive power is changed with the amplitude
of the output voltage of VSC.
Better dynamic response, < 20ms
Reduced installation footprint
Grid voltage independent performance
High short time overload capacity
Much lower operation losses
Low initial cost
Less maintenance and operational costs
Better for high power, high voltage
Sample Project
Biosar Australia Pty Limited Company
Grid code compliance and integration to the transmission system
100 MW solar power plant
400kVAr, 690V modules operating
in parallel
Dubbo, Sydney – Australia
Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOM) of 8 MVAr at 10.5 kV
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