Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
A new voltage-dependent methodology for shunt-capacitor compensation of primary distribution feeders is presented. A generalized computer- based procedure is described for optimally sizing and placing any specified number of fixed shunt capacitors while accounting for voltage variation along the feeder. The procedure is applied to a physically-existing feeder with known P, Q loads to yield results for capacity release exactly comparable to those from an optimal power flow. The superiority of the new methodology over existing methods is demonstrated.
Grainger et al. (Sat,) studied this question.