Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Thiruvananthapuram, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Transferred Indigenous Technology of Power Quality Solution and Railways VCU solutions to industry partners.
- The STATCOM technology will help the masses in integration of different renewable sources of energy to the grid without depleting power factor and can help the grid in unbalanced grid conditions.
- Also, the VCU and its offshoot technologies given to the Indian Railways will ultimately help the passengers, freight, Shatabdi and Tejas trains to have more indigenisation of the technologies.
- STATCOM: The Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) is based on PQ standard-IEEE519 & IEEE1459.
- The STATCOM technology has become increasingly relevant in recent years due to the growing demand for renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, which are intermittent and variable in nature.
- The integration of these sources into the power grid can cause voltage fluctuations and instability, which can be mitigated by using STATCOMs.
- The device capable of providing or absorbing reactive current and thereby regulating the voltage at the point of connection to a power grid.
