DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADVANCED VOLTAGE CONTROL TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE VOLTAGE AND REACTIVE POWER CHARACTERISTICS OF A LARGE-SCALE POWER CABLE SYSTEM

The power supply system for a metropolitan area consists of multiple 275-kV power cable systems to supply power to a large number of consumers. Each system has a large charging capacity (capacitive reactive power). When 275-kV power cable systems experience a voltage drop, their charging capacity decreases. However, the reactive power losses increase in the 275-kV overhead transmission lines, which supply large power to power cable systems, thus causing the performance of the power supply system to deteriorate. In this paper, the following three points are reported: (1) When the secondary power system of the trunk substation is a large-scale power cable system, new techniques can greatly improve the voltage and reactive power characteristics by controlling the rise of the sending-end voltage at the secondary side of the trunk substations and maintaining the voltage of power cable systems at a constant level. (2) In the use of this control technique, it has been demonstrated that controlling by the direct-detecting method of a voltage drop in the primary power system is superior to one that controls by the indirect-detecting method, which increases load power in the cable system. (3) The results of simulations obtained by using a 275-kV cable system model and a performance power system model show that the use of this control technique can produce a good effect despite the allowances made for the opposite effect, i.e., a decrease in the capacity of power capacitors resulting from voltage drop at the tertiary voltage of a 500-kV transformer.