The integration of renewable energy sources like solar and wind into the transmission distribution grid has increased gradually for quenching increasing demand alternative to fossil fuels. However, due intermittent nature primarily wind, injection power generation shall also be fluctuating which in turn will impact voltage profile grid. Also, case any major load disconnection or generator tripp...

The low voltage ride-through (LVRT) capability of the doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) significantly impacts upon the integration of wind power into the power grid. This paper develops a novel comprehensive control strategy to enhance the LVRT and reactive power support capacities of the DFIG by installing the energy storage system (ESS). The ESS is connected to the DC-link capacitor of th...

Reactive power control can control voltage within the proper range from the power network side or from the distribution generation (PV (photovoltaic)) side. Reactive power control from the power network side is simpler because little controlled object apparatus, such as STATCOM, is required. However, it is difficult to optimize the individual voltages of residential consumers because few data h...

Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch (ORPD) is a multi-variable problem with nonlinear constraints and continuous/discrete decision variables. Due to the stochastic behavior of loads, the ORPD requires a probabilistic mathematical model. In this paper, Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is used for modeling of load uncertainties in the ORPD problem. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear constrained mul...

Reactive power dispatch (RPD) is one of the important tasks in the operation and control of power system. This paper presents a Differential Evolution (DE) based approach for solving optimal reactive power dispatch including voltage stability limit in power systems. The monitoring methodology for voltage stability is based on the L-index of load buses. The objective is to minimize the real powe...

This paper presents a survey of voltage/Var control techniques. It introduces both the control devices for individual reactive power sources and several popular control systems (OPRF, hierarchical voltage control, expert system and fuzzy logic) for whole power transmission network. 2. REACTIVE POWER SOURCES AND THEIR CONTROL DEVICES

This paper presents a new control method for simultaneous compensation of instantaneous reactive power and current harmonics by parallel active filters (PAFs). Reference compensating currents of PAF are calculated using the subtraction of instantaneous power from its average value. In this way, it is possible omitting high/low pass filter(s) from the control circuit of PAF, which usually result...