Enhancing Grid Resilience of RE dominant Power System’s through STATCOM’s – A Practical Illustration

There has been an unprecedented growth in the rate at which renewable energy integration is happening in the modern-day Power System. While RE integration stands as one of the most prominent solutions to decrease carbon footprint, it is apparent that the Grid stability and resilience is dynamically challenged. Without suitable compensation, the RE integration poses a serious threat to the reliability of the electrical Grid. Wide Spread grid outages may result because of such uncompensated RE networks, which can often have cascading effects and may lead to wide spread blackouts, resulting in heavy economic losses.