The Interesting Synergy between High Power Electronics Evolution and the Current Developments in HVDC and FACTs

This presentation will provide a brief overview and technology update to show how advances in modern
semiconductor devices have led to higher ratings and more flexible HVDC and FACTs Systems (SVC, STATCOM,
TCSC etc.) We will try and show how pressure to develop higher power semiconductors for other industries such as
traction drives, VFDs, and otter industrial settings, and how these market pressures have allowed the R&D and
development and applications experiments to really push for advances in both the Line Commutated (LCC) and
Voltage Source (VSC) applications.

Speaker(s): Mark Reynolds,

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/314732