The document presents a presentation on power quality improvement in a grid connected wind energy system using STATCOM. The objectives of the proposed scheme are reactive power compensation, unity power factor, sinusoidal source current, reduced total harmonic distortion, maintained voltage profile, and effective response from the STATCOM controller. The system is modeled in MATLAB/Simulink and includes a wind turbine, nonlinear load, STATCOM connected to a battery energy storage system. Simulation results show the STATCOM is able to mitigate power quality issues and reduce harmonic distortion from 24.62% to 3.5%.
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