A Procedure for Placing Shunt Reactors in High-Voltage Networks and Justification of its Efficiency

Abstract

In recent years, the controlled shunt reactor (CSR), a type of FACTS device, has been widely used to regulate voltage and reactive power flows in the high-voltage electrical network. The selection of location and the determination of the law of CSR control under the stochastically variable operation of high-voltage power transmission lines are associated with numerous technical and economic factors. At the same time, one should take into account such limiting conditions as ease of use, performance, purpose, and location in the system, as well as the time of commissioning. In the proposed procedure, these factors are considered as fuzzy constraints. The paper proposes a procedure for CSR placement in the 330 kV electrical network of the “Azerenergy” system for control of reactive power flows, given the mentioned fuzzy constraints. The obtained simulation results demonstrate the advantage of the proposed procedure. The computational experiments confirm the CSR efficiency.