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Power Systems Engineering Research Center PSERC Background Paper What is Reactive Power? Peter W. Sauer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign September 16, 2003 Engineering talk Reactive power is a quantity that is normally only defined for alternating current (AC) electrical systems. Our U.S. interconnected grid is almost entirely an AC system where the voltages