STATCOM Reactive Power Control Capabilities at Low Voltage Grid with Wind Power

Nowadays use of renewable energy sources has received considerable attention because of reducing bad effect of utilizing conventional power plants in electrical networks. That is why wind power has been noticed by scientists all around the world. In this paper impacts of STATCOM in a distribution network in two modes, connected and island It is examined in presence of wind farm as local loads. In order to achieve this goal we consider two states. One of them is analyzing case study by PSAT software without STATCOM. The other one is analyzing it using STATCOM. At the end, results reveal that voltage profile with STATCOM is much better than another state without STATCOM.