Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) (IEE power engineering series 30)

Deregulation of electricity supply industries worldwide and the resultant arrival of competition is forcing power utilities to utilise their existing facilities to ever higher levels of efficiency, enabled by advances in power electronics technology. In the 1990s a number of control devices, collectively known as FACTS technology, have come into widescale operation and offer further opportunities to improve the control of transmission systems. Much research activity continues in this field and this book aims to describe the state of the art internationally.

Power transmission control : basic theory, problems and needs, FACTS solutions. Power electronics : fundamentals. High voltage dc transmission technology. Shunt compensation : SVC and STATCOM. Series compensation. Phase shifter. The unified power flow controller. Electromagnetic transient simulation studies. Steady-state analysis and control. Oscillation stability analysis and control. Transient stability control. Protection for EHV transmission lines with FACTS devices. FACTS development and applications. Application of power electronics to the distribution system.