Abstract: This study proposes a combined operation of the Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) with wind power generation system considering investment cost. The proposed system consists of a series inverter, a shunt inverter and an induction generator connected in the DC link through a converter. The proposed system can compensate voltage sag and swell, voltage interruption, harmonics and reactive power in both interconnected mode and islanding mode. The speed of the induction generator is controlled according to the variation of the wind speed in order to produce the maximum output power. The investment cost of proposed system is compared with investment cost of separated use of UPQC and Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) and the economic saving due to use of proposed system is estimated. The validity of the proposed system is verified by the results of computer simulation.
INTRODUCTION
One of the most interesting structures of energy conditioner is two back-to-back connected DC/AC fully controlled converters. In this case, depending on the control scheme, the converters may have different compensation functions. For example, they can function as active series and shunt filters to compensate simultaneously load current harmonics and supply voltage fluctuations. In this case, the equipment is called Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) (Akagi et al., 2007; Aredes and Watanabe, 1995; Cavalcanti et al., 2005; Han et al., 2006).
An active shunt filter is a suitable device for current-based compensation. It can compensate current harmonics and reactive power. The active series filter is normally used for voltage harmonics and voltage sags and swells compensation (Cavalcanti et al., 2005). The UPQC, which has two inverters that share one DC link capacitor, can compensate the voltage sag and swell, the harmonic current and voltage and control the power flow and voltage stability. Nevertheless, UPQC cannot compensate the voltage interruption due to lack of energy source in its DC link (Han et al., 2006).
Nowadays, generation of electricity from renewable sources has improved very much. Utilizing of wind energy as a renewable source to generate electricity has developed extremely rapidly and many commercial wind generating units are now available on the market. The cost of generating electricity from wind has fallen almost 90% since the 1980s (Karrari et al., 2005).
Wind is a variable and random source of energy. All types of machines, i.e., DC, synchronous, induction, depending on the size of the system have been used to convert this form of energy to electrical energy. Induction generators are more common and more economical by improvement of power electronics devices and drive methods (Datta and Rangenathan, 2002).
Various forms of systems can be used to have some level of control on the wind generation unit. In the variable speed constant frequency systems, power electronic devices are used to allow the rotor speed to be changed while the grid frequency is constant. In one scheme, as studied in this research, a Variable Speed Cage Machine (VSCM) system is used with a rectifier and an inverter connecting the cage induction generator stator to the grid. The advantage of the variable speed constant frequency system is that the rotor speed can be controlled. This makes it possible to capture maximum energy from the wind turbine (Karrari et al., 2005). In Datta and Rangenathan (2003), a method of tracking the peak power points for a VSCM system is suggested.
Numerous studies are now available on UPQC and distributed generation.
| Fig. 1: | Configuration of proposed UPQC with WECS |
In a new combined UPQC and synchronous generator is proposed, in which the synchronous generator is connected to UPQC DC bus through an uncontrolled rectifier (Han et al., 2006).
In this study, a new configuration of UPQC is proposed that has a Wind Energy Generation System (WEGS) connected to the DC link through the rectifier as shown in Fig. 1. The significant advantage of this configuration in compare with separate operation of UPQC and wind energy generation system is reduction in using of one inverter and use of shunt inverter of UPQC as a WEGS`s inverter. The UPQC can compensate the voltage interruption in the source, while the WEGS supplies power to the source and load or the load only. There are two operation modes in the proposed system. The first is interconnected mode, in which the WEGS provides power to the source and the load. The second is islanding mode, in which the WEGS provides power to the load only within its power rating when voltage interruption occurs. The system operation transfers from the islanding mode to the interconnected mode when the voltage interruption is removed. The VA rating of series and shunt inverters of UPQC are estimated for proposed system. The investment cost of proposed system is compared with investment cost of separated use of UPQC and WECS using the VA rating calculations and the economic saving due to use of proposed system is estimated.
PROPOSED SYSTEM
In Fig. 1, there are six main parts in proposed system: wind turbine, induction generator, maximum power point tracking which controls induction generator speed, PWM rectifier, shunt inverter and series inverter of UPQC. The modeling of each section is discussed separately and then the overall model is investigated.
Wind turbine: The output power from a wind turbine can be expressed as (Kim and Kim, 2007):
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
where, λ is tip-speed ratio, VWIND is the wind speed, R is blade radius, ωr is the rotor speed (rad sec-1), ρ is the air density, CP is the power coefficient, PM is mechanical output power of wind turbine and TM is the output torque of wind turbine.
The power coefficient CP depends on the pitch angle β, the angle at which the rotor blades can rotate along its long axis and tip-speed ratio λ given by Eq. 4:
(4) |
where, β is the blade pitch angle. For a fixed pitch type, the value of β is set to a constant value.
Maximum power point tracking: In this study, the pitch angle is kept at zero until the nominal power of the induction generator is reached (Horiuchi and Kawahito, 2001).
| Fig. 2: | Power coefficient factor versus tip-speed ratio for various pitch angles |
At high wind speeds, the pitch angle is increased to limit the input power (Fig. 2).
Therefore, the optimized rotational speed ωopt for maximum aerodynamic efficiency for a given wind velocity is given by:
(5) |
where, λopt is the optimized tip-speed ratio which β is zero and CP is maximum. Hence, to fully utilize the wind energy, λ should be maintained at λopt, which is determined from the blade design (Abo-KhaIil et al., 2004). Then from Eq. 2:
(6) |
where, PM max is maximum mechanical output power of wind turbine at a given wind speed.
Once the wind velocity VWIND is measured, the reference speed for extracting the maximum point is obtained from Eq. 5.
Induction generator: In this study, a fifth order model for induction generator simulation is used. To overcome the complexity of the model, usually Park`s transformation is used. The transformed induction machine equations are described by Ong (1997). Also, it is shown:
(7) |
(8) |
where,
Wind turbine converter: The mechanical output power of wind turbine and rotor speed for a given wind speed is determined by the intersection of wind turbine and the induction generator characteristic curves.
Rotor flux reference frame is used for transformation of induction machine equations. Selecting the d-axis aligned with the rotor flux, the q-axis component of the flux will be zero. This makes the equations easier to handle. In this frame, the torque and flux Eq. 13 described in Eq. 8 can be rewritten as:
(9) |
(10) |
(11) |
(12) |
where, Tr is time constant of rotor and equals
The Eq. 9-12, are the basis for field oriented control. This approach simplifies the induction machine control. The model is very similar to a separately excited DC machine where the flux depends on the field current and the torque is proportional to the flux and the armature current. The main problem associated with field oriented control is the requirement to estimate the flux axis angle. This is done either by measuring the flux at two different points (with 90 ° displacement), or estimating through rotor speed measurement (Ong, 1997). In this study, flux axis angle θ is calculated through rotor speed measurement.
(13) |
The wind turbine converter is designed to control the rotational speed in order to produce the maximum output power, where the indirect vector control is used.
| Fig. 3: | Wind turbine converter control block diagram |
| Fig. 4: | Shunt inverter control block diagram |
The control part consists of a speed controller and the d-q current controllers. The d-axis current component is generally set to maintain the rated field flux in the whole range of speed, while the speed loop will generate the q-axis current component through a PI controller to control the generator torque and speed at different wind speed as shown in Fig. 3.
The proportional and integral gains for speed controller used in simulation are KP = 12 and Ki = 25, respectively.
Shunt inverter of UPQC: The shunt inverter described in this study has two major functions. First, to compensate the current harmonics generated by the nonlinear load and reactive power and to inject the active power of WECS to grid (normal mode). Second, to supply the power to the load when the voltage interruption occurs in the source side (interruption mode). Figure 4 shows the controller developed for the shunt compensator.
Normal mode operation: The measured load current is transformed into synchronous d-q reference frame with the sine and cosine functions calculated using a PLL (phase locked loop) (Hu and Chen, 2000):
(14) |
(15) |
With this transformation, the fundamental positive sequence components are transformed into dc quantities in d and q axes, which can easily be extracted by Low-Pass Filter (LPF). All harmonic components are transformed into ac quantities with a fundamental frequency shift.
(16) |
which
(17) |
where, il is the nonlinear load current, is is the source current and ic is compensating current.
The switching loss can cause the DC link capacitor voltage to decrease. Other disturbances, such as unbalances and sudden variations of loads can also cause this voltage to fluctuate. In order to avoid this, in Fig. 3a PI controller is used.
To avoid DC voltage fluctuation, a PI controller is used. The input of the PI controller is the error between the actual capacitor voltage and the desired value, its output Δidc is then added to the reference current component in the d-axis to form a new reference current.
(18) |
When the DC link voltage decreases from desired value, the shunt inverter draws active power from grid to regulate its voltage. When WECS injects power to DC link, the bus voltage increases, in this case, the shunt inverter injects power to grid to maintain DC link voltage at nominal value. The proportional and integral gains for dc voltage controller used in simulation are KP = 0.5 and KI = 0.05, respectively.
As shown in Fig. 5, these reference currents in Eq. 18 are then inversely transformed into a-b-c reference frame. And the output compensatory currents of the shunt compensator are obtained by a PWM voltage current control.
Interruption mode operation: By estimating the entering voltage and current from the both ends of Solid-State Breaker (SSB) terminals as input signals, if the interruption exceeds a threshold level, then the SSB is opened into the islanding mode. Hereafter if the disturbances are removed, the SSB is closed immediately into normal mode.
When the voltage interruption occurs and SSB opens, the WECS provides the active power to maintain the load voltage constant. The shunt inverter starts to perform the voltage and current control using the PI controller.
| Fig. 5: | Voltage control of shunt inverter of UPQC in interruption mode |
| Fig. 6: | Control block diagram of the shunt converter of the UPQC |
Figure 5 shows the voltage control block diagram of shunt inverter in interruption mode (Han et al., 2006).
Series inverter of UPQC: The function of series inverter is to compensate the voltage disturbance in the source side, which is due to the fault in the distribution line. The series inverter control calculates the reference value to be injected by the series inverter as shown in Fig. 6.
The system voltages are detected and then transformed into synchronous d-q-0 reference frame using Eq. 19 (Basu et al., 2007):
(19) |
The load bus voltage should be kept sinusoidal with constant amplitude even if the voltage on system side is disturbed. So, the expected load bus voltage in d-q-o reference frame has only one value:
(20) |
Where:
(21) |
where, Vm is peak value of desired load voltage and θ is phase angle of load voltage which is determined by PLL (phase locked-loop). This means d-axis of load reference voltage equals Vm while q-axis and zero axis of load reference voltage equals zero.
The compensation reference voltage is:
(22) |
The compensation reference voltage in Eq. 22 is then inversely transformed into a-b-c reference frame. Comparing the compensation reference voltage with a triangular wave, the output compensation voltage of the series compensator can be obtained by PWM voltage control.
PHASOR DIAGRAM OF UPQC
Figure 7 shows phasor diagram of shunt inverter of UPQC for fundamental power frequency when the supply voltage equals the desired load voltage (Basu et al., 2007).
When the supply voltage has no deficiency; VS = VL1 = VS1 = Vo (a constant) and the series injected voltage Vinj requirement is zero. This state is represented by adding suffix 1 to all the voltage and current quantities of interest. The load current is IL1(IL1 = IL) and the shunt inverter compensates the reactive component IC1 of the load, resulting in unity input power factor. Thus, the current drawn by the shunt inverter is –IC1, which is opposite to the load reactive current IC1. As a result, the load always draws the in-phase component IS1 from the supply. For non-linear loads, the shunt inverter not only supplies the reactive current, but also the harmonic currents required for the load. Thus, after the compensation action of the shunt inverter, only the fundamental active component of the current is required to be supplied from the utility.
Figure 8 shows phasor diagram of shunt and series inverter of UPQC for fundamental power frequency when the supply voltage sags and UPQC injects Vinj to maintain the load voltage at its desired level (Basu et al., 2007).
As soon as the load voltage VL sags, the UPQC is required to take action to compensate for the sag, so that VL is restored to its desired magnitude.
This condition is represented by adding suffix 2 to the parameters. Consequently the load current changes to IL2.
| Fig. 7: | Phasor diagram of shunt inverter of UPQC |
| Fig. 8: | Phasor diagram of shunt and series inverter of UPQC |
The shunt inverter ijects IC2 in such a way that the active power requirement of the load is only drawn form the utility. Therefore, from the utility side the load power factor is always unity. It can be observed form the phasor diagram that the utility current is IS2 and is in phase with VS2.
If the active power demand is constant,
(23) |
which can be written as:
(24) |
VA RATING CALCULATION OF SHUNT AND SERIES INVERTER
Volt Ampere (VA) rating of series and shunt inverters of UPQC determines the size of the UPQC. The power loss is also related to the VA loading of the UPQC. Here, the loading calculation of shunt and series inverters of UPQC with presence of DG at its DC link has been carried out on the basis of linear load for fundamental frequency.
The load voltage is to be kept constant at Vo p.u. irrespective of the supply voltage variation:
(25) |
The load current is assumed to be constant at the rated value:
(26) |
Assuming the UPQC to be lossless, the active power demand in the load remains constant and is drawn from the source:
(27) |
In case of a sag when VS2<S1, where x denotes the p.u. sag:
(28) |
to maintain constant active power under the voltage sag condition as explained in (1):
(29) |
therefore series inverter VA rating equals to:
(30) |
Injected current through shunt inverter is:
(31) |
therefore shunt inverter VA rating equals to:
(32) |
Figure 9 and 10 show VA loading of series and shunt inverters of UPQC for a wide range of power factor and supply voltage sag variations. The VA loading of inverters is calculated for occurrence of supply voltage sag from 10 to 50% and power factor variations from 0.6 lagging to unity power factor, with Zsh = 1 p.u in all cases. The range of supply voltage sag has been chosen such that most practical cases are observed to be in this range as available from power quality survey reports.
Effect of connecting DG to UPQC on UPQC converters VA: By connecting DG to the DC link of UPQC, the active power required by series inverter can be supplied from DG. Hence, the freed capacity created on the shunt inverter can be used for active power flow (transmission) to grid. These capacities of inverters are detailed as follows.
| Fig. 9: | VA loading of series inverter of UPQC for different power factor and p.u voltage sag values |
| Fig. 10: | VA loading of shunt inverter of UPQC for different power factor and p.u voltage sag values |
From Fig. 8, one can deduce that the current in shunt inverter which compensates voltage drop in DC link due to operation of series inverter, is parallel with IS1 whose vector sum with IC1 will yield IC2. That would be active current in the direction of IS1 and its rms value is ISE_C2 which is equal to vector difference of IC1 and IC2.
(33) |
From Fig. 8, it can be found that:
(34) |
By substituting IC1 and IC2 from Eq. 34 and 31, respectively, ISE_C2 is equals to:
(35) |
implifying Eq. 35 results in:
(36) |
Assuming IO = 1 p.u, the value of ISE_C2 will be given for different values of load power factor. Table 1 shows the perunit active current in the shunt inverter for series compensation for different power factors and voltage sag values. By installing DG on DC link of UPQC and supplying active power required for series compensation by DG, the active power of DG can flow to grid through shunt inverter.
Assuming shunt inverter design of 1 p.u capacity for complete current compensation and voltage sag compensation up to 0.5 p.u, by connecting DG to the UPQC DC link, 1 p.u shunt inverter will be able to flow 1 p.u current of DG to grid. Table 2 shows the possible capacity of shunt inverter for carrying DG active current for different power factor values. Therefore the proposed configuration is capable of DG active power transmission of 1 p.u to thr grid without any change in the capacity of series and shunt inverters.
| Table 1: | p.u active current flow in shunt inverter for series compensation for various and voltage sags |
| Table 2: | Capability of shunt inverter to transmission of active and reactive current for different power factors |
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LINKING DG WITH UPQC
Here, the economic analysis of separate linking of UPQC and DG to distribution network by combined scheme (as discussed in this study) is carried out and compared. In the combined operation of UPQC and DG, an inverter is used less compared to the separate operation of them. On the other hand, there is no need for DG converter and its duty is done by shunt inverter. The shunt inverter transmits the active power of DG to grid besides compensating the reactive power and harmonics of load current without increase of shunt inverter rating.
The investment cost of inverter ICelec can be expressed as (Kaldellis and Kavadias, 2007):
(37) |
which NP is the rated power of inverter. Since, UPQC has two inverters, the investment cost of UPQC is same as two inverters. The investment cost of wind turbine by rated power of NWT, can be demonstrated by (Kaldellis and Kavadias, 2007):
(38) |
| a | = | 8.7x105($/kW) |
| b | = | 621 |
| c | = | 700($/kW) |
| x | = | 2.05 |
Using Eq. 37 and 38, the investment cost of separate UPQC and WECS and also combined UPQC and WECS can be estimated. Table 3 shows investment costs of separate and combined configurations for three different ratings. Economic savings due to using combined configuration compared to separate UPQC and WECS can be shown in Table 3.
| Table 3: | Comparison of Investment cost and economic saving of separate and combined UPQC and wind energy system |
These results show the proposed configuration has 17.6 up to 20.7% economic saving depending on different ratings.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In order to inspect different variables, analysis will be carried out of different parameters in three steps. First, the wind speed variation is considered and the way to inject power to the grid is studied. Second, voltage sag of 100 V in peak at a constant wind speed is applied and the results are studied. Finally, interruption is applied and the corresponding power injection to load is observed.
Wind speed variations: The wind model used in the simulation consists of base component that is a constant speed and a gust component for fast variations in wind speed (Kim and Kim, 2007). The simulated wind model is shown in Fig. 11.
The applied load is an RC load with uncontrolled diode rectifier with a THD of more than 40%. The load current is shown in Fig. 12. In Fig. 13, the active and reactive power consumed by the load are demonstrated.
As was described earlier, the optimal rotor speed to maximize the output power of wind turbine in different wind speeds, is obtained by adjusting tip speed ratio (λ) at its optimal value. This is applied as the generator`s reference speed so that the wind turbine rotates with such speeds that maximize the output power for different wind speeds. Figure 14 shows the reference and actual rotor speed (rad sec-1). As is evident, the generator tracks the reference speed (or the optimal speed to gain the highest output power) after getting past the starting stage.
In Fig. 15 the injected active power by series and shunt inverters of UPQC, source side and power consumption of load are shown. The load power consumption should equal the sum of injected power by source, series and shunt inverters at each moment. As is obvious in the Fig. 15, until t = 1 sec, the wind speed is at its rated value and the injected active power by shunt converter is 8.5 kW. Since the power required by the load is, the surplus wind system power is injected into the grid and the power flow direction in grid is reversed. Therefore, the source power is negative within this interval. By the wind speed decreasing from t = 1 sec till t = 1.3 sec, the active power injected by the shunt inverter into the grid is decreased and part of the load power is supplied from the source. At time t = 1.3 sec, the wind speed exceeds the nominal value and the injected power through shunt inverter exceeds 10 kW. In Fig. 15, it is seen that the change in wind speed has no effect on the performance of series inverter and it does not inject or receive any power. The series inverter begins to operate when any voltage disturbances occur.
The reactive power injected by the source, series and shunt inverters of UPQC is shown in Fig. 16.
| Fig. 11: | Simulated wind model (m sec-1) for wind speed variations step |
| Fig. 12: | Load current (A) |
| Fig. 13: | Active and reactive power consumed by load |
The reactive power injected by shunt inverter is consumed by the load. Hence the grid capacity is not dedicated to reactive power support and the source reactive power became nearly zero. Since the source voltage has no disturbance, the reactive power of series inverter also remains zero.
The current direction is reversed at the instances t = 1 sec and t = 1.3 sec. In other words, within the time interval t = 1 to 1.3 sec, the source receives power from the wind system (Fig. 17).
| Fig. 14: | Reference and actual rotor speed (rad sec-1) |
| Fig. 15: | Injected active power by source and series and shunt inverters of UPQC and consumed power of load |
| Fig. 16: | Injected reactive power by source and series and shunt inverters of UPQC |
Figure 18 shows DC link voltage of UPQC. At the initial moments, the startup of induction generator necessitates reactive power absorption which is supplied via DC link capacitor and this causes DC link capacitor`s voltage drop.
| Fig. 17: | Current drawn from the source |
| Fig. 18: | DC link voltage of UPQC |
After startup of generator, the DC voltage remains so close to the reference voltage (780 V). An abrupt change in wind speed, causes a change in the DC link voltage to some extent and gets back to the desired value after a short time.
Voltage sag: Here, voltage sag at a given wind speed, 11 m sec-1, is applied and the results are studied. A voltage sag with peak amplitude of 100 V is applied from t = 1 to 1.3 sec. The source and load voltage are shown in Fig. 19. It is seen in this figure that the UPQC series inverter has modified load voltage correctly. In Fig. 20, the injected power by source and UPQC`s inverters and also the consumed power by load are shown. The consumed power of load should be equal to the power injected by source and UPQC. As is shown, when the voltage sag occurs, the injected active power by shunt inverter is slightly decreased and the power injected by series inverter is increased by the same amount The source-injected power does not undergo any changes by the voltage sag.
Figure 21 shows reactive power injection by source and series and shunt inverters of UPQC. The reactive power required by load is supplied from the shunt inverter.
| Fig. 19: | Voltage sag compensation, (a) source voltage and (b) load voltage |
| Fig. 20: | Injected active power by source and series and shunt inverters of UPQC and consumed power of load |
Hence, the reactive power drawn from source will be zero. In normal operation, the series inverter does not inject or absorb any reactive power but it absorbs reactive power when the voltage is distored. Considering UPQC control circuit and values of d-q components of voltage, it is indicated that before voltage sag or disturbance, the q component of voltage is zero, while by the voltage sag; it will be changed and must be compensated.
| Fig. 21: | Injected reactive power by source and series and shunt inverters of UPQC |
| Fig. 22: | Shunt inverter injected current during occurrence of voltage sag |
In order to compensate the load voltage when voltage sag occurs, the series inverter should inject active power and absorb reactive power.
The current in the shunt branch of UPQC is shown in Fig. 22. A significant percentage of load current is supplied through the shunt branch. In other words, the power generated by wind system is consumed by load. Hence, the current drawn from the source is negligible. Consequently, if the power generated by wind system is in excess of the load, the surplus power would flow into the grid (source). At the time t = 1 sec, the current is slightly decreased. This is because of voltage sag and allocation of a part of wind system power to injection through series inverter to improve voltage sag.
The current drawn from the source is shown in Fig. 23. It is shown in Fig. 23 that the source current is sinusoidal and its amplitude is nearly 4A. The reason is the wind system function and active power injection through the shunt inverter. The harmonic current of load is supplied by shunt inverter and the source current remains sinusoidal. The DC link voltage is shown in Fig. 24. After startup of induction generator, the DC voltage value remains very close to the reference value.
| Fig. 23: | Source current during occurrence of voltage sag |
| Fig. 24: | DC link voltage of UPQC during occurrence of voltage sag |
The voltage sag has no effect on DC link voltage, because the required power is supplied from the wind system. Hence the dc voltage will remain constant.
Voltage interruption: Here, voltage interruption occurs from t = 1 to 1.3 sec at wind speed of 11 m sec-1. As soon as the interruption occurs, SSB is opened and the shunt inverter control switches from grid-connected into islanding mode. Therefore the load and shunt inverter are isolated from grid. It is assumed that there is enough wind power to supply the load. In case the generated power of wind system does not meet the required power of load, a part of load that has less importance, will not be supplied correspondingly.
Figure 25 shows the source and load voltage, respectively. It is seen that after voltage interruption, load voltage is remained at its desired value due to shunt inverter operation.
The injected power of source, series and shunt inverters as well as consumed power of load is shown in Fig. 26. At each instant, the power consumed by load should be equal to the sum of injected powers.
| Fig. 25: | Voltage interruption compensation, (a) source voltage and (b) load voltage |
| Fig. 26: | Injected active power by source and series and shunt inverters of UPQC and consumed power of load during occurrence of voltage interruption |
As is evident in the Fig. 26, as the outage occurs, the injected power by source and series inverter becomes zero and the wind system generated power is fed to the load through shunt inverter. As the outage is removed, SSB is closed and series inverter gets back to the circuit and also the shunt inverter control returns to grid-connected mod.
The voltage control loop is functioning properly keeping DC link voltage level close to its reference value (Fig. 27).
| Fig. 27: | DC link voltage of UPQC during occurrence of voltage interruption |
CONCLUSION
This study describes a combined operation of the unified power quality conditioner with wind power generation system considering investment cost. The proposed system can compensate voltage sag and swell, voltage interruption, harmonics and reactive power in both interconnected mode and islanding mode. The speed of the induction generator is controlled according to the variation of the wind speed in order to produce the maximum output power. The VA rating of series and shunt inverters of UPQC are estimated for proposed system. The investment cost of proposed system is compared with investment cost of separated use of UPQC and WECS using the VA rating calculations and the economic saving due to use of proposed system is estimated nearly 20%. The performance of the proposed system was verified using computer simulations.