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Reactive Power
compensation specialists

Information from Reactive Power

Reactive Power has rapidly advanced to be the leading MV power factor correction and harmonic
filtering supplier in Southern Africa. It is based in Johannesburg and operates throughout the
Southern African region.

he people forming the company projects into Southern Africa, where its clients include all the major mining houses
have been serving the electrical operating in Southern Africa and even as far afield as Ghana and Burkina Faso.
Tindustry for many years, going Our experience gives customers the assurance that its solutions will not only be
back to the late 1980s; however in the of the highest technical standard but will also be very cost competitive, providing the
last ten years we have supplied over best solution for their needs. Reactive Power is fortunate to have in-house professional
270 harmonic filter banks and shunt engineering skills available – once again ensuring a solid professional approach to any
capacitors from 3,3 kV to 275 kV. project, with the highest technical standard. It has a wide variety of designs available to
The company has the necessary suit customers’ needs.
skills to provide full turnkey projects. The Reactive Power is also active in the FACTS area and with our relationship with
design capabilities available to Reactive AMSC, where we can supply SVCs, STATCOMs and other power quality devices such as
Power range from the 3.3 to 400 kV active filters to assist IPP’s with grid code compliance.
complex filters including STATCOMs AMSC’s reactive power solutions are proven technologies that facilitate renewable
and active filters. Most projects however energy integration, strengthen the security and reliability of the transmission and
are found in the mining and industrial distribution grid, and allow industrial customers to maintain peak productivity.
segment, with various projects being AMSC’s D-VAR STATCOM can precisely and quickly deliver reactive current to
undertaken from 6,6 to 33 kV. mitigate voltage transients and deviations that can adversely affect the performance of
The company also services and re- the grid and industrial machinery.
commissions various installations from 6,6 The D-SVC, a direct-connect distribution SVC, allows industrial businesses to utilize
to 33 kV. Furthermore, it supplies numerous a plant level solution to mitigate power quality problems such as voltage sags due to

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