Advantages of HVDC transmissions
Advantages of HVDC transmissions
- A lesser number of conductors and insulators are required thereby reducing the cost of the overall system.
- It requires less phase to phase and ground to ground clearance.
- Their towers are less costly and cheaper.
- Lesser corona loss is less as compared to HVAC transmission lines of similar power.
- Power loss is reduced with DC because fewer numbers of lines are required for power transmission.
- The HVDC system uses earth return. If any fault occurs in one pole, the other pole with ‘earth returns’ behaves like an independent circuit. This results in a more flexible system.
- The HVDC has the asynchronous connection between two AC stations connected through an HVDC link; i.e., the transmission of power is independent of sending frequencies to receiving end frequencies. Hence, it interconnects two substations with different frequencies.
- Due to the absence of frequency in the HVDC line, losses like skin effect and proximity effect does not occur in the system.
- It does not generate or absorb any reactive power. So, there is no need for reactive power compensation.
- The very accurate and lossless power flows through DC link.
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