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Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) recently has proved to be economical with high efficiency in stabilizing electrical power and voltage of power systems without investing on establishing new network. However FACTS performance depends largely on it’s optimal location in the network. This work has investigated the contribution of STATCOM to the performance of 28-bus, 330kV Nigeria power system. The results were presented for both base case and after the compensation using PSSE software. Base case and after the application of 3 X 100MVA STATCOM recorded a respective power loss of 91.28MW and 71.07MW which shows 20.21% reduction in power loss. Five buses (New Haven, Onitsha, Gombe, Jos and Kano) recorded (0.8580, 0.8833, 0.7376, 0.8875, and 0.8847) p.u respectively which fell outside the voltage limit of ±5% used.The buses were respectively improved to 1.0 p.u after compensation. Our results show better improvement compared to previous work on the same network. |
