Study of autonomous hybrid power system using SVC and STATCOM

The use of autonomous hybrid power system is being popular due to the continuous increasing gap between demand and supply of conventional energy sources and intermittent nature of renewable energy sources. Normally, the renewable energy source such as wind using induction generator generate electricity but induction generators require reactive power for its operation and this demand is continuously changing by the variation of load and wind power. Though synchronous generator used in hybrid system for generating power through diesel system is supplying reactive power to the system but another source having fast response for reactive power supply is required to fulfill this demand. In this paper, the SVC and STATCOM are used and compared as a reactive power compensator.