Analysis of Var benefits with application to Var planning

8th International Power Engineering Conference, IPEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 146-152

  Zhang, Wenjuan ^a,b   Li, Fangxing ^a,b   Tolbert, Leon M ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

(RPP); Optimal power flow (OPF); Reactive power planning; Total transfer capability (TTC); Var economic benefits; Voltage stability margin

Indexed keywords

(RPP); OPTIMAL POWER FLOW (OPF); REACTIVE POWER PLANNING; TOTAL TRANSFER CAPABILITY (TTC); VAR ECONOMIC BENEFITS; VOLTAGE STABILITY MARGIN;

VALUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 51349163111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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