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This Green Book on Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) controllers is intended to assist electrical engineers and power system planners in understanding how to select, apply, and manage power electronic systems used for the control of voltage, reactive power, and active power in AC systems. This introductory chapter provides some background and historical perspective on how AC power transmission systems function and how they evolved to become an indispensable infrastructure all over the world.
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Reactive power is used to describe electromagnetic energy flows that do not perform any work.
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Long, W., Nilsson, S.L. (2020). Introduction to Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) Controllers: A Chronology. In: Andersen, B., Nilsson, S. (eds) Flexible AC Transmission Systems . CIGRE Green Books. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35386-5_1
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