Reactive Power Mitigation and Power Factor Correction in Power Transmission Networks Using Fixed Capacitor Bank

Improvement of the power factor and mitigation of reactive power for nonlinear loads is the aim of this article. Power factor plays a significant role in the efficiency of the Electrical power network: a 14-bus 330kV transmission network implemented in the ETAP 19.0 Simulation Environment. A 16MVar capacitor bank was used to inject voltage into the system at bus 6, which had the lowest voltage. The placement of the capacitor bank improved the voltage profile from 94.91 percent to 95.41 percent (0.5 percent). The reactive power component decreased from 100 MVar to 55 MVar. This result enhances the system voltage profile and mitigates the effect of reactive power caused by a lagging power factor.