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Present-day electricity grids are equipped with sophisticated devices that allow to meet various grid code requirements. These include reactive and active power controls to ensure robust functioning of the grid. Robust operation of the electricity grid entails favourable voltage and frequency profile adjustments that can be achieved through reactive and active power controls. This study presents the synchronous condenser capability of providing voltage regulation and reactive power output, and the active power possibility path of a type-3 wind machine for dynamic state conditions and voltage stability issues. Simulations carried out in the MATLAB/Simulink environment prove the efficiency of the proposed methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Installing a synchronous condenser (SC) onto an electricity grid can assist in the areas of reactive power needs, short-circuit strength, and, consequently, system inertia and guarantees better dynamic voltage recovery. This paper summarizes the practical potential of the synchronous condenser coordinated in an electric-power network with participating wind plants to supply reactive power compensation and injection of active power at their point of common coupling; it provides a systematic assessment method for simulating and analyzing the anticipated effects of the synchronous condenser on a power network with participating wind plants. A 33-kV power line has been used as a case study. The results indicate that the effect of the adopted synchronous condenser solution model in the MATLAB/Simulink environment provides reactive power, enhances voltage stability, and minimizes power losses, while the wind power plants provide active power support with given practical grid rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]