A new Navigant report examines the market for volt/volt-ampere reactive power (Volt/VAR) management and optimization technologies, providing global market forecasts, broken out by technology segment, ...

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Jan. 14, 2004 — American Superconductor Corp., an electricity solutions company, announced that it is providing its D-VAR® (Dynamic Volt- Ampere-Reactive) reactive power ...

A recent report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for dynamic volt/volt-ampere reactive (VAR) solutions and components, including global market forecasts for revenue, segmented by ...

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 18, 2003 — American Superconductor Corp. announced that AMSC’s D-VAR® (Dynamic Volt-Ampere-Reactive) transmission grid reliability system will be used by wind farm developer ...

Correctly installing capacitors at the terminals of your motors can lower reactive power requirements and increase system power factor. Induction motors are the primary source of rotary power in the ...

SVCs and D-VAR systems are “ reactive compensation ” solutions, classified as FACTs (Flexible AC Transmission system) devices. These solutions are utilized by utilities to dynamically control voltage, ...

Electricity transmission network operators are being tasked with adding more renewable energy resources to the power grid. The use of static VAR compensators (SVCs) is growing as a means to control ...

According to a Norwegian group of researchers, the reactive power capability of three-phase voltage source inverters can help to reduce problems caused by the intermittent nature of solar power on ...

Fundamentally, electrical power is developed, delivered, and consumed as voltage and current. In a simple direct current (DC) device such as a flashlight, the power (the brightness of the bulb) is the ...

Your utility Power Factor is the ratio of the system’s Real Power and the Apparent Power (Eq. 1, Fig. 1). This unitless factor ranges from −1 to 1. The Power Factor ratio aptly describes the type of ...