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EPRI Proprietary Licensed Material<br />

St<strong>or</strong>ed <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> “Distributed Mini FACTS” Controllers<br />

This energy st<strong>or</strong>age application is based on benefits <strong>of</strong> active power injection coupled<br />

with dynamic reactive power exchange <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> improved stability in the power system. The<br />

need <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> dynamic reactive power <strong>com</strong>pensation (“fast VARS”) as opposed to fixed <strong>or</strong><br />

mechanically switched capacit<strong>or</strong> banks have long been recognized as a way to improve<br />

T&D system stability and increase power transfer limits. This concept has been applied<br />

in large-scale inverter-based Flexible AC <strong>Transmission</strong> Systems (FACTS). These<br />

systems have the ability to affect changes <strong>of</strong> 10 to 100 MVAR and respond in less than<br />

one-quarter <strong>of</strong> a cycle and they have brought about a new way <strong>of</strong> thinking regarding<br />

active and reactive power.<br />

An example is the STATCOM, which outpaces switched passive capacit<strong>or</strong>s, react<strong>or</strong>s, and<br />

LTC trans<strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>mers in rapid voltage regulation. STATCOM responds even faster than<br />

conventional generat<strong>or</strong>s, SVCs, <strong>or</strong> synchronous condensers, which in the past were the<br />

main supplier <strong>of</strong> “fast VAR” to the electric systems. Also, this type <strong>of</strong> dynamic reactive<br />

<strong>com</strong>pensation is better at supp<strong>or</strong>ting voltage during system contingencies than<br />

conventional capacit<strong>or</strong> banks that lose capacity when system voltage decreases, (See<br />

Figure 19).<br />

% Decrease in Capacit<strong>or</strong> VAR Output<br />

40%<br />

35%<br />

30%<br />

25%<br />

20%<br />

15%<br />

10%<br />

5%<br />

0%<br />

80% 85% 90% 95% 100%<br />

Line Voltage<br />

Figure 19 Loss <strong>of</strong> capacit<strong>or</strong> VAR output as a function <strong>of</strong> line voltage<br />

Combining energy st<strong>or</strong>age with FACTS controllers <strong>of</strong>fers three distinct advantages:<br />

1. <strong>Energy</strong> st<strong>or</strong>age devices can provide system damping while maintaining constant<br />

voltage following a system disturbance.<br />

2. <strong>Energy</strong> st<strong>or</strong>age increases the dynamic control range allowing the interchange <strong>of</strong> small<br />

amounts <strong>of</strong> real power with the system.<br />

3. Distributed energy st<strong>or</strong>age can maintain the speed <strong>of</strong> locally connected induction<br />

mot<strong>or</strong>s during a power system disturbance, thus helping to prevent a voltage collapse<br />

in areas where there is a large concentration <strong>of</strong> induction mot<strong>or</strong>s.<br />

An EPRI study [1] found that adding energy st<strong>or</strong>age (in this case, SMES) to a FACTS<br />

device increased the control leverage <strong>of</strong> the reactive power modulation <strong>of</strong> a FACTS<br />

device by 33% (i.e., operating the FACTS + energy st<strong>or</strong>age in four-quadrant, reactive<br />

plus real power mode provided 33% greater transmission enhancement). Figure 20<br />

shows the results <strong>of</strong> a study conducted by Siemens on the effectiveness <strong>of</strong> sh<strong>or</strong>t-term<br />

Electrochemical Capacit<strong>or</strong>s 41

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