Patent ID: 7095597

Claim:
A system for correcting the reactive component of generated electrical power in a fluid-flow power generating system comprising: A power distribution grid; A plurality of turbines; Each turbine comprised of a turbine rotor having at least one blade mounted on a rotatable shaft and a multiphase induction generator having a stator and a rotor coupled to said rotatable shaft for rotation therewith in response to said fluid flow; a substation including a central computer connected to said power distribution grid that determines the difference between a required voltage or power factor set point and an actual measured value; a medium voltage collector system connected to groups of generators to said sub-station; One or more sub-system modules including power factor correction logic connected to said medium voltage collector system that corrects a lagging power factor of said generators in response to commands received from said sub-station central computer; Said central computer system including logic that measures line voltage on said power distribution grid to determine and output to a sub-system module a set point command necessary to either (1) hold a line voltage on said incoming high-voltage distribution line at a predetermined set point or (2) hold a power factor of said incoming high-voltage distribution line at a predetermined power factor set point.