SVCs for maintaining power quality in a 400 kV grid feeding a steel plant FACTS Since 1998, two Static Var Compen sa­ tors (SVC) supplied by ABB have been in operation at Saldanha Steel in Cape Town, South Africa. The purpose of the SVCs is maintaining power quality in the 400 kV grid supplying the plant. One of the SVCs, rated at 0/+165 Mvar at 33 kV intermediate bus voltage, compensates a meltshop load comprising an Electric Arc Furnac

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