Closure to discussion of “Using a static VAr compensator to balance a distribution system”

The authors reply to a discussion by S.-M. Hsu (see ibid., vol.35, no.5, p.1174-6, 1999) of their original paper (see ibid., vol.35, p.298-304, 1999). The authors claim that Hsu provides technical details about the harmonic problems of the SVC, but has overlooked the main purpose of their paper. They point out that the point raised by Hsu on harmonics was dealt with in other papers that were referenced in the original paper