FACTS Devices Influence on Power Losses in Transmission Systems

Since there are still higher efforts for transmission systems equipment utilization, more control mechanisms and devices are integrated to the systems and their dispatch centers and these will be also in future. FACTS devices purpose is preferably to maintain voltage levels and to control active and reactive power flows. Their implementation in the grid can result from the necessity to improve the system capabilities in a long-term period or to solve some extraordinary states. The paper deals with the implementation of shunt and series FACTS devices into electrical transmission systems and their influence on active power losses. There are provided comparison analyses of how different FACTS types have a potential to changes power losses in the system either in a negative or in a positive way. There are explained basic principles and the results are presented on the IEEE/CIGRE transmission system model.