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 ...

In Dominion Energy’s eastern region, STATCOMs were installed at four existing substations because they offer more flexibility and require less land area than SVCs. After closing six coal-fired units ...

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 ...

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 ...