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Private participation in generating power is being encouraged in the country in order to meet high powerrequirement. As a result, many independent power producers (IPP) are establishing pit head thermal power stations. Manya times, the IPPs have to execute a contract with the state electricity board, under whose jurisdiction the location of thegenerating plant comes up lies, that a certain percentage of the installed capacity of the plant shall be supplied to the stategrid and the balance power can be supplied to others. In such cases, there is a requirement for precisely controlled powerflow over a transmission line between the IPP’s generating station and the state grid substation at which the contractedpower is to be delivered and provision for evacuating the balance power to nearby state grid substation. In a case where theinstalled capacity of the IPP is 500 MW, 300MW of power shall be supplied to the state grid whenever the generation is morethan 300MW and full generated power if the generation is less than 300 MW. To achieve this control of power flow isessential. Hence it is required to select best conductor is required in order to reduce transmission losses and selection ofpercentage of compensation required to achieve control over the power flow in an AC transmission line. In this paperperformance analysis is carried out in order to select best transmission line conductor amongst various conductors availableand also percentage line compensation required to reduce reactive power flow and to control voltage and current in an ACtransmission line

Shri Harsha J, Dr. R Prakash, “Choice of best transmission line conductor and percentage line compensation required in order to achieve best power evacuation scheme for IPP’s”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 8, pp. 79-88, August 2017.