A framework to quantify the economic benefit from local VAR compensation

International Review of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 989-998

  Li, Fangxing ^a   Zhang, Wenjuan ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a,b   Kueck, John D ^b   Tom rizy, D ^b  

^a Department of Educational Leadership Policy Studies at The University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic benefits; Reactive power; Transfer capability; Var compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949192961     PISSN: 18276660     EISSN: 25332244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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