AMSC has announced that it has installed and commissioned three D-VAR Statcom systems in Africa and the USA. The new installations are connecting renewable power plants to the grid and ensuring power quality at industrial sites.
The new installations include Kahuku Wind project in Oahu, Hawaii. First Wind is using the solution to connect the 30MW Kahuku Wind project to the Hawaiian Electric Company's (HECO) grid. The second project is the Cookhouse Wind Farm near Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Consolidated Power Projects (CONCO) has installed the D-VAR system as part of its efforts to connect the 140MW project to the Eskom's grid. Additionally, AMSC announced that it has won four new D-VAR contracts in Australia, North America, and South Africa. For all of these new contracts, the D-VAR system will be used to meet grid interconnection standards and safely and efficiently connect wind and solar energy generation plants to the power grid.