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Electric Power Systems Research Extending the reactive compensation range of a direct AC-AC FACTS device for offshore grids A B S T R A C T ?The authors suggest to use hybrid modulation schemes to improve the reactive power compensation capabilities of the direct AC–AC FACTS device composed of a matrix converter and a permanent magnet machine. Because of the intrinsic limitations of the conventional matrix converter modulation schemes, the device has so far displayed a poor reactive power compensation capability when the output power factor is low. Even worse, the direct AC–AC FACTS device could not provide pure reactive power compensation. The paper presents an analysis demonstrating how the hybrid Three-Vector-Scheme extends the reactive compensation range beyond the level that the conventional indirect space vector modulation exhibits. The reactive power compensation capabilities of the FACTS device with both modulations are computed and compared analytically and finally verified by a simulation study. Introduction Large scale integration of wind energy will call forth an increased use of Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS). For offshore AC grids, appropriate FACTS device should possess the two following features: high power density and high reliability.The direct AC-AC FACTS device composed of a matrix converter and a permanent magnet (PM) synchronous machine, see Fig. 1, is both compact and reliable mainly because the DC link capacitor is Eliminated. In [ 1,2 J was introduced the idea of benefiting From the features of the matrix converter and provide power conditioning in drives and power conversion applications. A dedicated direct AC-AC FACTS device was presented i n [3,4] for voltage compensation and reactive power support to the grid. The device can provide reactive power compensation like a STATCOM by controlling directly the input current fed to the grid, see Fig. l . In addition active power control can be provided if there is a lo