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and inhouse technical expertise to provide quality solutions to meet all harmonic grid The company offers the following services:
code compliance requirements. • Design and supply of all kinds of specialised
Reactive Power is also active in the FACTS area where its professional relationship harmonic filters
with AMSC enables the supply of SVCs, STATCOMs and other power quality devices, • Automatically switched multi-step medium-
such as active filters, to assist independent power producers with grid code voltage bulk power factor correction systems
compliance. • FACTS devices including SVCs, STATCOMs, etc.
AMSC’s reactive power solutions are proven technologies which facilitate • Active filters
renewable energy integration, strengthen the security and reliability of the • PCB capacity or replacement/refurbishment
transmission and distribution grids, and help industrial customers to maintain peak programmes
productivity. • Distribution compensation solutions including
AMSC’s D-VAR STATCOM can precisely and quickly deliver reactive current pole-top shunt banks, ground mounted mobile
to mitigate voltage transients and deviations which could adversely affect the shunt banks and unconventional substation
performance of the grid and a factory’s industrial machinery. compensation schemes
The D-SVC, a direct-connect distribution SVC, allows industrial businesses to utilise • Individual motor unit capacitors
a plant-level solution to mitigate power quality problems such as voltage sags, due to • Spare or replacement capacitors
large motor starts and voltage flicker. • Air-cored and iron-cored filter reactors.
AMSC’s network planning team is proficient on all the major utility modeling • High voltage damping/filter resistors
software (including Eskom) and can work with clients to analyse their system and • Current limiting, fault limiting or neutral
design cost effective solutions to strengthen their power and energy portfolios. earthing reactors (NERs)
Reactive Power also maintains outstanding relationships with its sub-suppliers • Switchgear and integrated control and
resulting in certain benefits which are passed onto its clients. This is particularly of protection systems for capacitor banks
benefit when fast delivery or unusual designs are required for any client’s particular including retrofitments and the upgrading of
needs. automatic control and protection schemes
Reactive Power takes pride in creating customer satisfaction and providing projects • Maintenance, refurbishing and upgrading of
on time and within budget. It treasures its relationships with its clients and strives all reactive power compensation schemes
to constantly exceed their expectations thereby guaranteeing successful projects. including the outsourcing of routine
The company also appreciates its many returning customers which have helped it to maintenance
expand and succeed. • Remote system monitoring and automated
fault annunciation and call-out schemes
Contact Kevin Talbot, Reactive Power, Phone 011 708 0044 or 082 380-3033, • Automated remote check metering schemes,
kevin@reactivepower.com, http://reactivepower.com utility billing audits and tariff impact studies

33 kV STATCOM with capacitor banks

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