AMSC has announced that Consolidated Power Projects (CONCO), South Africa’s largest high voltage construction company, has selected AMSC’s D-VAR STATCOM solution to connect South Africa’s largest wind farm to the electricity grid.
This is AMSC’s first D-VAR STATCOM sale to South Africa. The system will be commissioned in the first half of 2014. AMSC’s D-VAR solution offers complete VAR compensation and voltage control, enabling wind and solar energy generation systems to meet the most stringent requirements while augmenting overall performance of the wind farm.
